Guest Videos: Dinosaur Brains and Tilly Edinger
A “game-changing” early mammal fossil was reported in May 2018. To understand why paleontologists are excited about it, you firstContinue Reading
Category: Geoscientist of the Week
Guest Video: John Wesley Powell
When I studied surveying, in 1980, the field was transitioning from painstakingly perfect hand-drawn artwork and lettering to instrumentation. Now,Continue Reading
Guest Video: Florence Bascom
Although she was spent her life studying Earth’s surface, this woman has a crater on a Venus and an asteroidContinue Reading
George F. Kunz, Gentleman Explorer
It’s a Golden Oldies weekend, with a Geoscientist of the Week I first described back in 2014. The US GeologicalContinue Reading
Guest Video: Cuvier, Extinction, and Us
More information: Georges Cuvier biography Technical paper: Ranking the Big Five extinction effects. PDF download. (Note: Very technical, but oneContinue Reading
Guest Video: Zhang Heng
Here is more information about that seismoscope. (PDF download) Featured image: Kowloonese, CC BY-SA 3.0.
George Gaylord Simpson
One day, someone who had dropped by saw me reading a book and asked what it was about. “Evolution,” IContinue Reading
Guest Videos: William Smith
William Smith made the first national geological map.
Marie Morisawa
American geomorphologist Marie Morisawa affected geoscience much like a little creek affects the meadow and hillside it’s flowing through–in a big way, but quietly, slowly, efficiently over the years, drop by drop, paper by paper, student by student.
Guest Video: Working as a Volcanologist
Featured image: MONUSCO Photos/Abel Kavangh. CC BY-SA 2.0.
