Over at the always-great Magma Cum Laude blog today is an excellent post on essential reading for volcanologists, listing over thirty books of value to people who really want to know what volcanoes are all about. Magma Cum Laude: Es...

This traveling meme was started by Alice at Sciencewomen, passed to Magma Cum Laude, then to NOVA Geoblog, and on to Geotripper Part 1 and Part 2, and then on to Geology Happens.January: The famous (or infamous?) International Hotel...

After NOVA Geoblog, after Magma Cum Laude, who did it after Woman Scientist...ahh, geologists are nothing if not happy to be traveling. And it has been awhile since we had a good meme! Of course, I'm in...I spent a fair amount of ti...

After Magma Cum Laude, who did it after Woman Scientist...January: EcuadorFebruary: Shenandoah Valley, VirginiaMarch: Washington, DCApril: West VirginiaMay: Petrology of MarylandJune: Williamsburg, Virginia (toad in the College Wood...

Jess at Magma Cum Laude is hosting this month’s Accretionary Wedge, asking “What kind of Earth Science outreach have you participated in?” Actually, there is quite a lot of outreach that I do but one thing that I’ve actually referr...

Thanks TC for the extension. Jess at Magma Cum Laude is hosting this month's Accretionary Wedge and has given us an extra week. Thanks!This month is all about sharing our love of geology with budding geologists. I get to work with K...

Magma Cum Laude will be taking a break for a few weeks - I'll be globetrotting on and off until July. Enjoy your summers!...

New from Magma Cum Laude: ‘Go for the art, stay for the volcanoes’ is a post on the exhibition Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, which Jessica has be...

Many happy returns to two of the very best geoblogs around, Callan’s NOVA Geoblog and Jessica’s Magma Cum Laude, both of which have just marked their first anniversary. Hearty congratulations, and long may you both thrive!       ...

Jessica Ball of Magma Cum Laude has written a fine article profiling Mount Vesuvius for Geology.com, clearly and concisesly discussing its geological context, eruption history, hazard potential and more. Excellent use of illustratio...

A post of links, because I'm trying to get some intro exams graded:Magma cum laude has a great post discussing the portrayals of volcanoes in several books. And Biology in Science Fiction and Almost Diamonds are asking scientists an...

Tuff Cookie over at Magma Cum Laude has an excellent post ‘Everything I need to know in life, I learned on geo field trips’. Here are a few of the things I have learnt from fieldwork: When working on the coast, the pub is always u...

Thanks to Magma Cum Laude for the excellent post on what we learn from geotrips! In sort of the same vein I offer the comprehensive list of everything that can go wrong on a geo-outing. I stole the idea some time back from a magazi...

Borrowed from Magma Cum Laude (a great blog, you should check it out)...

Accretionary Wedge #7 is up on Magma Cum Laude Carnival of the Green #120 is up on Victoria E Read the comments on this post......

Tuff Cookie at Magma Cum Laude (http://magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/) is our host of the 7th Accretionary Wedge Carnival, on the topic of our favorite or least favorite depictions of geology and geologists in the movies. As will be se...

I have had the greatest time reading geology blogs such as Apparent Dip. Magma Cum Laude, The Lost geologist, NOVA Geo blog and Ron Schott's page and thought I would join in the action. I didn't link these blogs as I thought it wo...