Author Archives: Chris Rowan

AGU Dispatches: Earthquakes, Education and Edification

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Another packed day, although for me, today was less about consuming science and more about both disseminating it, and learning how to teach about it. Nonetheless, I kicked off my morning in an interesting session on the links between short-term … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, conferences, earthquakes, geohazards, teaching

AGU Dispatches: Convergence, the Caribbean and Cosmic Impacts (not)

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Chris Rowan

AGU is all about pacing yourself. If you want to make it to the end of the week without your brain exploding from an overload of new science, you need to give it some down time. It was for this … Continue reading →

Categories: conferences, earthquakes, geohazards, palaeomagic

AGU Dispatches: Posters and Pontification

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Chris Rowan

There are two main ways to get your science at AGU: by sitting in on one of the dozens of sessions of themed talks, or browsing the monstrous poster hall in Moscone South. I spent Tuesday morning mostly wandering around … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, conferences, palaeomagic, public science

AGU Dispatches: Superchrons and subduction

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Chris Rowan

I started the day with my paleomagician’s hat on, sitting in on a session looking at the long term behaviour of the Earth’s dynamo. Changes in the strength and reversal frequency of the Earth’s magnetic field give a unique insight … Continue reading →

Categories: conferences, palaeomagic, tectonics

Terrane Accretion: the end of Chris’s postdoc odyssey

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Almost six years ago, I left the lab in Southampton where I had studied for my PhD on a quest to stay in academia and get paid to do interesting science. Thus began a period of my life which can … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, bloggery