Author Archives: Chris Rowan

The soundtrack of our unquiet Earth

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Chris Rowan

I’ve coming down off an intense few weeks’ of travelling: first to this years’ ScienceOnline conference (some thoughts about which might appear here soon), then to a conference on Hawaii’s Big Island (which I’ll definitely be writing about), and then … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes

How I (mostly) slept through the one of the largest earthquakes to hit NW Europe in 200 years

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Chris Rowan

In the early hours of 13 April 1992, the border region in western Europe where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet was shaken by a magnitude 5.4 earthquake, caused by northeast-southwest extension in the Roer Valley Graben. The shaking was … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, earthquakes

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Welcome to the first Highly Allochthonous Sunday link-fest of 2012. We realise that technically this is the second Sunday of the new year, but we trust that you’ll forgive us… Other posts on All-geo Metageologist discusses How stone walls reflect … Continue reading →

Categories: links

How useful are lectures, really?

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Chris Rowan

There has been an interesting discussion amongst the geologists on Twitter, that I’ve archived over on Geotweeps Discuss…, over the role of the lecture in undergraduate education. This was in response to an NPR story claiming that in physics at … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, science education

Geological mayhem and destruction in 2012: not the end of the world, just business as usual

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Chris Rowan

We don’t live on a boring planet. 2012 will be plagued by natural disasters, but so is every other year. Continue reading →

Categories: antiscience, climate science, earthquakes, geohazards, palaeomagic, public science, volcanoes