What is a river meander bend?
Over the last few years I’ve been wrestling with a nagging question : what defines a meander bend in a […]
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How to build a geologic time machine
I contributed a post to Thoughts From the Lawn, which spotlights current research by faculty at the University of Virginia.
Teaching and transformation in a pandemic year
The end of the academic year is a time of transitions. But this year, with cautious optimism that the US
A crisis by land, a revolution by sea
Hours after a 1929 earthquake, a tsunami battered the coast of eastern Canada. Twenty-three years later, a radical new picture of Earth history emerged from the ocean.
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What can two ancient rifts in the American heartland tell us about our current divides?
America is a land beset by divisions. Some are older and deeper than others.
What do you do when your waterfall is going extinct?
By the 1870s, a 10,000 year old waterfall was finally running out of time. The Army Corps of Engineers saved it — by turning it into a geological museum piece.
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Reading a valley, Part 2: How can you retrace a river’s footsteps?
For geoscientists, lacking direct experience is a common quandary (and it should be noted, a happy one!) One great workaround:
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Reading a valley: Part 1
I had a new paper come out this month, entitled “Numerical model predictions of autogenic fluvial terraces and comparison to
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What time is it in the world?
It’s hard to imagine, but simultaneity is a thoroughly modern concept. Before the telegraph, long-distance messages were carried exclusively by
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In the beginning…
“Welcome to the lithosphere!” – Jason Saleeby, greeting newly erupted lava in Hawaii, March 2013. So I’m starting a blog.