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31 October 2009
Accretionary Wedge #21: Earth Science Outreach
Happy Halloween! I hope you all are having a fun day of candy-and-costume-filled spookiness. And speaking of playing different roles, Earth scientists wear one hat in particular that’s very important: the Outreach Hat! That’s why the subject of this month’s Accretionary Wedge was Earth Science Outreach. This October has been a big month for Earth science: we’ve had Earth Science Week (a yearly event), a national Geological Society of America …
30 October 2009
Last call for Accretionary Wedge entries….
The Headless Horseman wants you to know that posting* is very important. *Yes, I did just make a horseback riding joke. I am a geek in many ways. Mwahahaha!
24 October 2009
Accretionary Wedge #21 – Deadline extended!
In recognition of the fact that I’m still “recovering” from GSA, and that quite a few geobloggers are probably doing the same thing, I’m going to extend the Accretionary Wedge deadline to Friday, October 30. (And yes, this does give me an excuse to throw some Halloween stuff in there…) The original announcement can be found here – this month’s theme is Earth Science outreach. I noticed that a few …
11 October 2009
Catching up
Wow, it would be nice to have more time to blog…unfortunately, three math-heavy courses this semester are not leaving me with much time to work on my own research, much less any other writing. So here’s a bulleted update of a few things: Earth Science Week is this week! I’ve got my toolkit, although lack of free time mostly means that I’ll be putting up posters instead of sponsoring an …
5 July 2009
A geology geek to the core (Accretionary Wedge #18)
Sitting here in Zion National Park, one of the last spots I visited on my first geology field course, I feel like I’m coming full circle to some of the reasons that I’m still doing geology. (I also feel like I could receive wifi through my teeth. Twenty plus wifi points? Really?) Anyway, it’s a perfect chance for me to answer Volcanista’s question: So July’s topic is about your inspiration …
26 February 2009
You need to go here! (and here, and here….Accretionary Wedge #16)
In this month’s Accretionary Wedge (which I am late for, having been distracted by seismic modeling in MATLAB yet again…), Geotripper asks: What are the places and events that you think should all geologists should see and experience before they die? What are the places you know and love that best exemplify geological principles and processes? Now, I write about volcanoes a lot. But I wouldn’t write about them if …
6 December 2008
The Fish Lake Plateau: “A most eligible summer camping-place” (Accretionary Wedge #14/15)
I haven’t done a whole lot of research yet, but I always enjoy a good chance to get out in the field. For my undergraduate thesis, this meant spending a few weeks in south-central Utah, on the High Plateaus. The work was part of the 2006 NSF Fish Lake Research Experience for Undergraduates, a joint effort between the College of William & Mary and Coastal Carolina University. The project was …
25 September 2008
Rocks in from space: Accretionary Wedge #13
Unfortunately, my experience with extraterrestrial geology is limited – I haven’t taken a planetary geo course yet, although there’s a planetary volcanology expert not twenty yards away, and I intend to take advantage of that next semester. So I’m going to take a little nostalgia trip and talk about one of my favorite places in the world, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. (Don’t worry, this will connect …
18 June 2008
The Accretionary Wedge #10 is up!
Go take a look over at Geological Musings in the Taconic Mountains. Lots of great reminders that geology shows up frequently in art – paintings, photos, maps, stories, and songs – and that geology itself can be art.
14 June 2008
Aesthetic Geology: Thomas “Yellowstone” Moran
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1872 (Image from Wikipedia) My first impulse on seeing the latest Accretionary Wedge topic (Aesthetic Geology – Geology and Art) was to look through my books for a favorite volcano painting. There are quite a few, especially from the 19th century, when geology was becoming popular, and they’re almost always spectacular (as most images of eruptions are). But because this is the time of year …
Jessica Ball is a volcanologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, researching volcanic hydrothermal systems and stability, and doing science communication for the California Volcano Observatory. She previously worked at the Geological Society of America's Washington DC Policy Office, learning about the intersection of Earth science and legislative affairs. Her Mendenhall postdoc and PhD focused on how water affects the stability of volcanoes, and involved both field investigations and numerical modeling applications. Her blogging covers a range of topics, from her experiences in academic geosciences to science outreach and communication to her field and lab work in volcanology.