Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Know thy co-ordinate system

Even the best measurements are meaningless if you muck up your corrections
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Categories: geology, geophysics

Dear God, I would like to file a bug report

How completely true. Maybe we should compile a requested features list ready for the Second Coming. (click on link or frame above to read the full comic at xkcd).

Categories: bloggery

Geological Basics: the art of Paleomagic

If I’m ever going to talk about my own research in any detail, I’m first going to have to explain a little (or a lot) about the field I fell into almost by accident, paleomagnetism. Literally ‘ancient magnetism’, paleomagnetism is … Continue reading

Categories: basics, geology, geophysics, palaeomagic

Time lapse photography of Io

Brian, Emily and Phil have all picked their favorite images from the set just released by the New Horizons Team (see the full gallery here), but I have to beg to differ in liking this one best. Two probes – … Continue reading

Categories: planets, volcanoes

Geo-engineering out in the cold

It seems that the IPCC are not to keen on the idea of geo-engineering. This term covers a raft of proposed solutions to the problem of anthropogenic climate change, all based on the idea that as well as (and, in … Continue reading

Categories: environment