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22 October 2015
Being objective (with yourself)
I recently recorded a podcast with Chris Jones of Rock Your Research (check out that website – he’s had some great guests on so far!) The very first question I got to answer about grad school was what I struggled the most with, and all those of you who’ve gone through grad school can probably guess that I said “impostor syndrome”. I’ve written a little bit about it before, but it’s …
2 January 2011
Geolutions and reflections for 2011
Happy New Year!
I tend not to make traditional resolutions (get fit, eat healthy, etc. etc.) because I know I’ll eventually forget about them, but I do like to make geolutions, or geologically-oriented plans for the new year. I thought I might list a few, as well as a few grad-school-related thoughts I’ve been mulling over in the past few weeks.
21 December 2008
Geolutions: Looking Forward and Back
Christie and Callan have already put up their “geolutions” for 2009, so I thought I’d take a look at some that I made a year ago, and make a few for the coming year. There aren’t many serious ones in the old list, and I made them fully expecting to break them, but let’s see how I did: #1. I will not succumb to apoplexy when approached and “corrected” by …
1 January 2008
Happy New Year!
Resolutions for geologists is the theme of the day. My personal resolutions usually tend toward the usual – get in better shape, finish working on some project I’ve been letting languish on my desk, acquire a totally gorgeous boyfriend who can appreciate the wonders of a really great outcrop of columnar basalt… (Okay, that one I made up, although it would certainly be nice.) But this time I thought I’d …
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.