Author Archives: Chris Rowan

One Venus transit – but many kinds of scientific outreach

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Chris Rowan

How more traditional and modern forms of scientific outreach combined effectively in the coverage of Venus’ transit. Continue reading →

Categories: planets, public science

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Welcome to the weekly links fest from your friendly Highly Allochthonous bloggers. If you’re thinking the format looks a bit different this week, it’s because Chris has been tinkering a bit with the script that generates the links in an … Continue reading →

Categories: links

Friday Focal Mechanism: M 7.4, Oaxaca, Mexico

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Chris Rowan

The largest earthquake to hit the planet this week was in Mexico, which was shaken on Tuesday by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake. The epicentre was in the Oaxaca region about 300 kilometres southwest of Mexico city, and the rupture was … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards

Geological maps: still interesting even when there’s only one rock type

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Chris Rowan

The USGS, in collaboration with NASA, have just released a geological map of Jupiter’s ultra-volcanically active moon Io, based on images from the Voyager and Galileo probes. It is a thing of beauty. The sheer variety of different geological units … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, planets, volcanoes

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Other posts on All-geo On Earth Science Erratics, Erin Parker talks about the challenge of making geology relevant to students. Join the discussion! http://all-geo.org/erratics/2012/03/making-it-relevant/ At Metageologist, Simon Wellings shows how there is more of geological interest in Sicily than just … Continue reading →

Categories: links