Author Archives: Anne Jefferson

Scenic Saturday: Minnesota, Land of Lakes

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

In Minnesota, two Saturdays ago, the weather was ridiculously warm, but the trees knew it was autumn and were well into their fall foliage fireworks. It was the perfect afternoon to enjoy a walk around one of Minnesota’s most famous … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, photos, Pleistocene

Wisdom from the Geoblogosphere School of Learning & Doing (Accretionary Wedge #38)

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Welcome to the Geoblogosphere School of Learning & Doing. Let’s begin with a story by one of our students, Michael Klaas of Uncovered Earth. He writes… “On a warm evening in May of 2008 I sat upon a cinder cone … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, geology, science education

Show me the data!

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Some of my favorite memories of interacting with my Ph.D. advisor involve long sessions at our conference table, looking at data. I’d come to these sessions armed with many graphs showing data I’d collected and different ways of displaying relationships … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne

Scenic Saturday: Lyme Regis

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Two-hundred years ago, a young woman by the name of Mary Anning walked along this shore, using her keenly self-trained observation skills to spot fossils eroding out of these cliffs. The cliffs are the blue Lias, Jurassic mudstones filled with … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, fossils, outcrops, photos

Scenic Saturday: Pinnacle in the Piedmont

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

The peak of Big Pinnacle at Pilot Mountain State Park rises more than 450 m above the surrounding North Carolina Piedmont. Big Pinnacle is just the most eye-catching of series of peaks, called the Sauratown Mountains, that are a tectonic … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geology, hydrology