Author Archives: Chris Rowan

New at Erratics: from lahar to suevite

In his second post at Earth Science Erratics Simon Wellings reveals a rather interesting deskcrop, collected from Scotland in his youth: Since it was picked up, this rock has changed identities: what was once thought to be a mud flow … Continue reading

Categories: planets, Proterozoic, rocks & minerals

#scio11 and #AGU10: a tale of two conference hashtags

Small 300 person conference out-tweets large 19,000 person conference 2 to 1. Which group should be worried about this? Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, conferences

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

The weekly linkfest. Continue reading

Categories: links

Friday Focal Mechanism: Magnitude 7.2, Western Pakistan

Why are we getting an extensional earthquake at a convergent plate boundary? Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geophysics, tectonics

The elephants in the room at ScienceOnline 2011

The undercurrents and unresolved issues at ScienceOnline 2011, that I feel are going to be an important component of online conversations in the next 12 months. Continue reading

Categories: antiscience, bloggery, conferences, public science, science education