Why I Blog: Callan Bentley (Mountain Beltway)
This guest post by Callan Bentley, an assistant professor of geology at Northern Virginia Community College, is the first of a series that will explore why Earth and space scientists blog. Here’s a...
View ArticleWhy I Blog: Jessica Ball (Magma Cum Laude)
Guest post by Jessica Ball, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geology of SUNY University at Buffalo. I love writing. I also love geology – volcanoes, especially. But writing research papers is an...
View ArticleWhy I Blog: Brian Romans (Clastic Detritus)
Guest post by Brian Romans, a research geologist in the energy industry I started my blog Clastic Detritus while working on a Ph.D. in sedimentary geology at Stanford University in 2006. I launched it...
View ArticleWhy I Blog: Erik Klemetti (Eruptions)
Guest post by Erik Klemetti, assistant professor of Geosciences at Denison University. I started blogging out of frustration with the lack of knowledgeable commentary on volcanic eruptions on the...
View ArticleThe volcano Gatekeeper
One of the sad - but not unexpected - stories to come from the eruption at Mount Merapi concerns the death of the "Gatekeeper" of the volcano, Mbah Marijan. Marijan was mentioned in a 2008 National...
View ArticleGeoblogging bonanza at AGU’s Fall Meeting
If you're getting ready to head out to San Francisco soon (or if you're already there!) you've probably heard at least something about the geoblogging activities that will be going on at this year's...
View ArticleMeet the Fall Meeting student bloggers!
Over the course of the week, a cadre of bloggers will be posting on the full spectrum of science topics covered at Fall Meeting! These bloggers are students in UC Santa Cruz's Science Communication...
View ArticleOpen Laboratory 2010 Now Available!
Do you like science? Do you like blogs? Do you like blogs about science? I sure hope so, because if not, what are you doing here? Anyway, assuming you answered the above questions in the affirmative,...
View ArticleNew kid on the block: Georneys joins AGU’s blog network
A blog on geological musings, wanderings, and adventures, called Georneys, has joined AGU’s network of Earth and space science blogs. With the addition of Georneys on July 11, the AGU Blogosphere has...
View ArticleUse your words (wisely)
The first day of organic chemistry, my professor warned us that we were about to start learning a new language. He wasn’t kidding, and ‘stoichiometry’** is still one of my favorite words. But the...
View ArticleGeoblogger & social media roundup at AGU 2011
In between not doing any Black Friday shopping (yay for my wallet!), spending time with my family, and trying to fit in a little bit of research time, blogging has taken a hit this week. So I thought...
View ArticleAGU 2011: Day 3
Well, as usual, the hectic pace of AGU caught up with me (and my laptop started having fits), so I'm behind on my meeting posts. So, we'll go back to Wednesday's activities:
View ArticleTalking about geoblogging at AGU 2011
As I mentioned in several posts, I gave a talk at a Public Affairs session at this year's Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco. I was invited to give the talk about my geoblogging experience in a session...
View ArticleBlogging MSL
You guys. MSL lands in 8 days! My brain is having trouble grasping how soon that is. Later this week I pack up and drive to Pasadena, where I'll be sharing an apartment with my supervisor and working...
View ArticleJot some field notes, get printed in The New York Times
Oceanographer Jim Thomson was surprised when The New York Times accepted his pitch to blog for the newspaper from a research cruise. Next thing he knew, his writing showed up as a full-blown article in...
View ArticleAGU Fall Meeting 2012: Social Media Roundup
It's time for my annual addition of your guide to the social media events at AGU's Fall Meeting in San Francisco! I'll be attending this year's meeting (you may see me wearing a press pass and some...
View ArticleAGU 2012 Days 4-6
As always, I'm behind on my AGU updates (possibly because I didn't have a chance to breathe until Wednesday!) There's so much to do, and Tuesday was the first day that the exhibits were open, which is...
View Article5 years already?!
Wow. It certainly doesn't seem like I've spent a significant chunk of my life blogging, but the calendar doesn't lie: it's been 5 years since my first post on Magma Cum Laude. When I first started, I...
View ArticleA cool tool from NASA: the science visualization wall
Blogger Dan Satterfield, who writes Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal on the AGU Blogosphere, recently blogged about one of NASA’s dynamic visual tools – the science visualization wall – for displaying...
View ArticleWhat Would Leonardo Do?
Want to communicate about science with kids in a compelling way? Guest blogger Rick Colwell and his geomicrobiology group at Oregon State University learned from experience that it helps to give young...
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