As many of you may know, I’ve been in the UK for a couple of months, and I’ve got a couple more to go before jetting off to Europe in June and California in July. On the first weekend of May I’ll be stomping around the mighty city of London and in between catching up [...]

Episode 9 of the podClast is ready for download. This week’s episode discusses the latest rumbling, shaking and eruptions in Tonga, global warming and the ozone layer and dinosaurs – small and feathered. Plus a reading recommendation.

The geoblogosphere is fantastic. We tweet (a lot now), we have carnivals and we even podcast once a fortnight. One thing we don’t do, though, is pool our combined centuries worth of geological knowledge in unified, constructive ways. At least not all that often. I would like to make this post a call to arms [...]

Callan at NOVA Geoblog has a new meme going: What are ten things that every geology major ought to know about? The only restriction is you’re not allowed to list anything that has already been listed by a previous geoblogger. You don’t have to list everything, just ten important things Mel at Ripples in the Sand [...]

podClast episode 8 is the Chris and Chris show. We discuss crypogeography with hidden mountains in Antarctica, extremophile bacteria living high atop the Andes, panspermia, extraterrestrial life and the hunt for Earth-size planets with NASA’s Kepler mission.

Ceres, it’s the largest object in the Asteroid Belt. Dawn, it’s the plucky little satellite hurtling its way across the inner solar system towards the Asteroid Belt. And panspermia, a fascinating hypothesis with absolutely no supporting evidence.