Category Archives: academic life

10 years of scientific career evolution: from springs to stormwater, student to teacher

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Anne Jefferson

This summer, I’m involved with a super-cool Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program focused on aquatic-terrestrial linkages in urban impacted ecosystems. Undergraduate students come to Kent State for 10 weeks to design, undertake, and present a mentored, independent research project, … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne, fieldwork, hydrology

1 week down, 3 to go on 28 days of #sciwrite

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Anne Jefferson

A week ago, we invited our readers to join in our challenge of making the short month of February into a productive writing month, but sharing our goals and progress. Our invitation was enthusiastically accepted, and we had 21 people … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, publication

28 days of #sciwrite

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Anne Jefferson

Back in November 2011, Anne performed an experiment. Anne wanted to see if being publicly accountable for my writing progress would get me to my goal of a paper submission before AGU. She didn’t quite make it, but that month … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne, publication

Highly Allochthonous at AGU

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Chris Rowan

Find out when and where we’ll be this year. Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, conferences

What the kids are interested in these days

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Chris Rowan

One of the courses I teach at Kent is an introductory geology course called ‘Earth Dynamics’. In my first lecture of term last week, I gave my new class a brief survey to get an idea of their previous exposure … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, teaching