“At the weekend I try to escape to any nice pub in South Wales’ mountains (in the winter). In the summer, I try to find any nice pub (again!) as close to the sea as physically possible. My daughter and wife normally follow me in this quest of finding the best pub in Wales.”
words of a true geologist
as a fourth-year i’ll be gallivanting on the spanish coast, modelling climate change, exploring the formation of the solar system and investigating the possibility of extraterrestrial life
COOL STUFF
at least 68% of whom are probably geologists
this is my last ever fieldtrip with the geology crew, hope it’s a good’un :D i’ll be back and tumblring ferociously again in 8 days!
i just took some (super cute) foraminifera to be identified by a professor who is one of the world’s leading experts in the little beasties
they ended up being something he’d never seen before, and also offered me a fourth-year project which will place me as co-author (or even main author, if what i find is snazzy enough) on a very publishable paper!
and now i get to go home and hug my cat, so today is just fab
yesterday we essentially spent our fieldtrip feeding cute duckies and geese in the name of science
there were flamingos too
and in three weeks i head to cyprus, plus at the start of next year we’re probably going to naples (or an equally fab mediterranean location)
geology rocks you guys
helping run the earth science workshops is so fun! kids can be cute, when they get all excited about shiny rocks..
read and take notes on the entirety of my giant geomorphology textbook!
oh man i’m gonna need to up my tea intake to at least fifteen mugs a day
update: finito!
after two days studying ancient reefs, hunting for trilobites, a huge (and unreasonably spicy) curry and an overnight stay in a ridiculously grand manor house. tomorrow we get to go collect fossil plants from an old coal mine hooray
i love geology triiips ♥
one week ‘til the deadline and my brain is a poor crispy fried thing!
to put this in context for ya, after spending six weeks trundling around 25km2 of the french countryside recording types of rock as coloured blobs on a huge map, we now have to figure out where the hell the boundaries go, how each rock type relates to the others in terms of age and processes, and deduce what it all looks like as an underground cross-section
being a rock detective is tough sometimes you guys
tropical sand magnified 250 times
dr gary greenberg’s sand photography
in the tropics, beach sand tends to be completely biogenic - the whole beach is comprised of microscopic shells, coral fragments and glassy sponge spicules, which have been washed ashore from reefs.
we got to study this as geology freshers, it was amazing ♥
can’t wait to even it out a bit on the beach on saturdaay ♥
i never thought i’d be able to cope in this weather, especially not with having to walk 10km a day hammering at rocks
but we’re doing great, our maps are taking shape, and the camping life is still fabuloso. i’ve taken a ton of photos which i’ll prep and post as soon as i can get my laptop charged enough to last more than ten minutes! blimey
we went to the local music festival the other night for some reggae, amazing. walking the 6km there and back with only beer for sustenance was so very worth it ♥
