Author Archives: Anne Jefferson

GeoKid goes to the zoo with her cousins

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Anne Jefferson

Mom’s note: A family trip to the zoo inspired these GeoKids reflections on animal classifications and families. As a parent scientist, my proudest moment was when GeoKid excitedly told her cousin, “That’s an orangutan. It’s our cousin.” On July 25th, … Continue reading →

Categories: by Geokid

To England: transit travails and a historical interlude

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Anne Jefferson

http://storify.com/highlyanne/transit-travails-and-a-historical-interlude

Categories: by Anne, outcrops, photos

Scenic Saturday: Water and Lava in the Oregon High Cascades

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Anne Jefferson

Today we launch the second major stage of our summer adventure – departing for the UK and Ireland later this evening. But a week ago today, we were in my PhD field area, the McKenzie River watershed in the central … Continue reading →

Categories: geomorphology, hydrology, outcrops, photos, volcanoes

What I do to make money and make the wet places good for animals and people (using only the ten hundred most used words)

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Anne Jefferson

This is a guest post from Alea Tuttle, a former graduate student of Anne’s at UNC Charlotte, who now works in environmental consulting. Alea recently discovered the 10 hundred words of science challenge and was inspired to write her own … Continue reading →

Categories: environment, hydrology, public science

After the dam came out: The Cuyahoga River in Kent

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Anne Jefferson

We’ve been having one of those perfect spring weeks, where the weather is warm and sunny, the flowers are blooming, and there is nothing more enticing at the end of a workday than to take a nice long wander down … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, outcrops, photos