Monthly Archives: April 2011

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

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

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Volcanoes It’s been 1 year since Eyjafjallajokull closed European airspace. Here’s a great retrospective from Erik Klemetti: http://bigthink.com/ideas/37870 Meanwhile, over at volcano1010, John Stevenson reports on the latest results from scientists who are studying the eruption, especially the tough problem … Continue reading

Categories: links

Not to scale

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

Backyard science: isotope hydrology style

A few days ago, someone asked me whether I’d done any Citizen Science projects with my 4 year old daughter. I said “no”, but then spouted off a couple of projects I was looking forward to starting in the next … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, by Anne, fieldwork, hydrology

Earthquake location matters, part eleventy

It’s been a month since the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami rattled then swamped northern Honshu, and Japan continues to be rattled by sizeable aftershocks. A magnitude 7.1 shock last Thursday initially set off further tsunami alerts but the rupture turned … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards, society