Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Update: Aetogate

It’s no surprise that neither Bill Parker nor Jeff Martz were particularly impressed with the inquiry that wasn’t, and they’ve both posted responses that should have been solicited anyway over at Mike Taylor’s site. It’s of particular interest to me … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, general science

Update: Arctic Ice

When the observed Arctic ice cover hit a record low last summer, I reviewed the last 20 years or so of ice coverage data, which showed a clear long(ish)-term decrease in both winter and summer ice cover, and concluded: At … Continue reading

Categories: climate science

Bloggers and blogging in Nature Geoscience

Given some of the other shenanigans that were percolating through the geoblogosphere yesterday, I was understandably a little bit cautious when I noticed a couple of familiar names popping up in the contents list for Nature Geoscience that arrived in … Continue reading

Categories: general science, public science

Uniformitarianism in action (sort of)

Most of you correctly identified the sedimentary structures in Friday’s mystery photo: two sets of ripple marks can be seen on the left, and a lower bed on the right has what look like dessication/mud cracks, formed by the drying … Continue reading

Categories: deep time, geopuzzling, outcrops

The balancing act

It was nice to get away over the Easter weekend – I went with some friends down to St. Lucia, on the east coast of South Africa north of Durban. I’m not generally the sort of person who gets much … Continue reading

Categories: academic life