Category Archives: science education

Hydrologist + professor = Anne’s answers to career profile questions

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

A few weeks ago, I was asked to answer some questions for a career profile section of a website aimed at students looking at college degree options. The website creators wanted to use me as their profile of a hydrologist, … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne, hydrology, science education

Not to scale

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Chris Rowan

Like all geologists, I’m a great fan of scale bars. Except, it seems, on some of my figures… Continue reading →

Categories: geology, public science, science education

The elephants in the room at ScienceOnline 2011

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Chris Rowan

The undercurrents and unresolved issues at ScienceOnline 2011, that I feel are going to be an important component of online conversations in the next 12 months. Continue reading →

Categories: antiscience, bloggery, conferences, public science, science education

An avalanche at the museum

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Chris Rowan

At the Chicago Museum of Science & Technology, make your own debris flows with the hypnotic Avalanche Disk. Continue reading →

Categories: geohazards, geology, geophysics, public science, science education

Geobloggers – why do you blog?

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

For geology bloggers, one of the most interesting, and encouraging, things about 2010 was that two big geological organisations – the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union – have started to grasp, and exploit, the potential of … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, public science, science education