Category Archives: geophysics

Earthly and Unearthly Beauty

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Chris Rowan

NASA unveiled a couple of rather beautiful things at AGU last week – and despite actually being at the conference, I haven’t really had the time to sit back and appreciate them until now. The first was the ‘Black Marble’, … Continue reading →

Categories: climate science, geology, geophysics, photos, planets

AGU Dispatches: Final Day and Final Thoughts

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Unless you are presenting, the final day of a 5 day-conference can be a test of your intellectual fortitude: it can be tough to force your tired and stuffed-with-cool-new-science brain to take an interest in any more talks or posters. … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, conferences, earthquakes, geohazards, geology, geophysics, tectonics

Now that’s what I call a geomagnetic storm!

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Chris Rowan

It appears that I was a litte premature with yesterday’s post. Look at what happened to the ambient magnetic field at the two observatories at Boulder and Deadhorse today (the dotted line represents about where the plots I put up … Continue reading →

Categories: geohazards, geophysics, palaeomagic, planets

The Earth weathers another geomagnetic storm

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Chris Rowan

A couple of days ago, the sun got a bit excitable: This large flare produced what is known as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), a blob of gas and radiation hurled at high velocities from the surface of the sun … Continue reading →

Categories: geophysics, palaeomagic, planets