Category Archives: academic life

AGU Dispatches: Final Day and Final Thoughts

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Unless you are presenting, the final day of a 5 day-conference can be a test of your intellectual fortitude: it can be tough to force your tired and stuffed-with-cool-new-science brain to take an interest in any more talks or posters. … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, conferences, earthquakes, geohazards, geology, geophysics, tectonics

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: 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

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

My AGU Posters: a visual history

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Chris Rowan

It’s a miracle! In an amazing (and probably entirely serendipitous) feat of organisation, I find myself printing my poster for the AGU 2012 Fall Meeting a whole 3 days before I fly to San Francisco. Since I am generally more … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, conferences