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19 February 2008
Brief update
Apologies for the lack of posting…being flattened by the latest bug wasn’t what I had planned for this week. Fortunately, I managed to spend a productive weekend working with my undergrad advisor on the paper we’re hoping to publish before I head off to grad school. Thursday I’m flying to Seattle for the first of my grad school visits. I made sure to get a window seat on the plane …
24 January 2008
Masters VS PhD
Last night’s meeting of the Geological Society of Washington was quite fun – how often do a bunch of geologists get to hold meetings in a really swanky Washington landmark like the Cosmos Club, after all? (All right, they made us go in the back door so we wouldn’t bother the real members, but it still felt exclusive.) I also had the pleasure of meeting Callan Bentley of NOVA Geoblog, …
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.