I’m just about settled in in my new office at The University of Edinburgh, so hopefully regular blogging should resume soon. In the meantimes, perhaps more interesting than my geographical shift is my temporal one; starting a new project means that I’m also going to be focussing on an entirely different portion of geological time:
When I moved to South Africa, I shifted from the very young to the very old; now I get to poke around somewhere in the middle. The Neoproterozoic, between about 550 and 1000 million years ago, is the final chapter of Earth’s evolution prior to the Cambrian explosion, and in fact many of the biological and environmental seeds that finally led to the rise of large critters and complex ecosystems may have been sown in this era.
Anyone want to guess exactly what I’m going to be looking at?
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