Climate Change and Plate Tectonics

Apr

15

2011

My awesome mom found the following article on Alternet and sent it to me, with the question “Plausible or wingnutty?” : Scientists Find Link Between Global Warming and Earthquakes At this point, I know better than to accept at face value what an article claims that a scientific paper says, so I set out to ...
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climate change · geology · skepticism

The Bighorn Basin Coring Project

Apr

2

2011

From mid-July to the beginning of August, I’m going to be outdoors, in Wyoming. No, I’m not crazy. Yes, I have a good reason for doing this. Because in the summer, that’s when we’ll be coring through the Willwood Formation in the Bighorn Basin. And this is a big deal. The Willwood Formation is about ...
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bbcp · climate change · geology · grad school

The Sendai Earthquake 1

Mar

15

2011

I haven’t had anything to say about the Sendai earthquake; it has quite literally left me speechless with horror, and pain, and agonizing worry. I know and care about people who live there. I’ve been to Japan twice, myself, and hope to travel there many more times in the future. There is something more personally ...
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earthquake · geology · japan

What I’ve been doing lately…

Feb

27

2011

It’s been a busy week… couple of weeks… month… well, from about January on. But I’ve been doing things with my time, at least. For example, today I went to Denver, CO’s Rally for the American Dream. With 3000 of my fellow Coloradoans – including my husband and my parents – I was in good ...
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feminism · geology · pictures

Emerging From Under My Rock

Dec

19

2010

So, where have I been since Thanksgiving? The easy yet melodramatic answer is: in a black pit of horrible despair. Really, I just mean that I was working on an intensely awful end of semester group project, which I was having to spend over twenty hours a week on. With the other end of semester ...
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geology · grad school · writing

Curse you, passive voice! 3

Oct

14

2010

I’ve been reading a lot of scientific papers lately; I’m in two classes, and I’m trying to get in a sufficient amount of reading on topic before my research starts up. Easier said than done… for the most part, scientific papers tend to knock me out, even if I’m not tired when I start reading. ...
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geology · petm · writing