Goescientist
Feb 2010
Me and Steve Smith have a front cover and article in this month's GEOSCIENTIST.
Front cover is a picture of the fissure that opened up overnight with a volcanic eruption and apparently swallowed up some camels that were chilling out there :-(.
The article is a short blog on our fantastic journey to the Hottest place on Earth.
check out the article HERE!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL :-)
Lets hope its GeoFantastic
We have a LIP of the month article (not those kind of lips ;-) for January at http://www.largeigneousprovinces.org/ about some of our recent research on flood volcanics, please check it out.
In these times of cold snaps and arctic weather conditions... why not try a thermal volcano lunge......you know you want to :-). Have a great 2010 everyone from DougalEarth!!
Welcome to DougalEARTH :-)
DougalEARTH is the official website of Dr Dougal Jerram; Earth Scientist, Adventurer and Science outreach presenter. Here you will find information about what I am upto both research wise and some of my science outreach activities, plus some general information and links that I would like to share.
I hope DougalEARTH finds you well. As an active earth scientist I am often out and about but aim to update the site as often as possible. Thanks for taking the time to visit and should you require information about my activities please contact me via my info & links page.
Hot news! How the Earth Was Made -
VESUVIUS aired on History channel
In this episode I visited Pompeii and Herculanium as part of a team looking at Vesuvius.
Etendeka sunset sept 2009
Vesuvius from Naples
Hello all, have just got back from filming around vesuvius area for the History Channel. Vesuvius is the classic volcano on a city. We looked at some of the old Roman excavations that were hit by the 79AD eruption. Had a great time with a great crew, more details on the show soon......Dougal
Colima erupting :-) great view of Colima volcano, Mexico, erupting mainly a gas cloud in May. Some small pyrolcastic flows occred every now and then as well........nice!!
BIG Thanks!!
Dear all, thank you so much for all
your kind words and enthusiasm
about the
Blast from the past!!
Take two bottle into the shower?....indeed with a mop
like
that! Thans to Aidrian for that blast from the past.
China - where the men are men and the Dinosaurs are nervous
China
- Who
are these attractive gentlemen? Looking
at flood basalts (big volcanic eruptions) and sediments in China with
colleagues from Leeds - we found some great new sections......and some
horns & a tiara in Hong Kong :-)
LASI
III
conference Island of Elba - Confronted
with the size of the 'antecrysts' DougalEARTH decides to eat the
evidence.
What a great trip! Thanks to Sergio, Andrea, Francesco, David and
Federico for thier time & hospitality :-)
HOT
NEWS - Bang! Month-Scale Eruption
Triggering at Santorini Volcano. Paper
just out in Science see research :-)
Learning to DIVE - :-)
- Got my PADI open water diving course done in Turkey. Much fun under
the waves and found the smallest bottle of Heineken in the world!!
Britain From Above - Involved in
Andrew Marr's 'Britain From Above'
series, August on BBC 1. I was involved with the section about
Britains landscapes, including some filming in the Great Glen. This
part will be out on the 24th of Aug
http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/
Iguazu Falls, Brazil
Brazil - Giant underground geodes, waterfalls and flood basalts as far
as the eye can see. Visit Brazil its great!! Had a trip through the south of Brazil looking at the lava flows which were linked up with Africa 130 odd million years ago. Then a conference on volcanic and associated rocks. Thanks to Breno and Petrobras for making it happen, and i look forward to vivting for longer next time.
Pimp my amethyst :-)
Dougal enters the lunging 'Hall of Fame' - 'Volcano Lunge'
latest news
January 2010
Wow, lets hit 2010 with a bang! kicked off in classic style with the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group meeting in Glasgow - well done Davie, Kate and all the Glasgow crew which put on a blinder :-) Term is well upon us now at Durham, and I am busy writing parts of a book .......I will reveal all soon.
December 2009
Well as the year draws to an end its been a busy and fruitful one. The US history channel aired the Vesuvius part of 'How the Earth was made', which was great fun to film ....hope you enjoyed it.
Ouch!!
Note to self, 'do not try a header in hockey'
November 2009
Catherine's paper (PhD student) is published in Petroleum Geosciences and the two Lithos papers come out (see research section). Lots of teaching going on and the kitchen at hme being done....did anyone say 'Gin and Tonic'? :-)
October 2009
Had a great visit out to Washington state. Was at the Geol Soc of America conference in Portland to give a talk, then visited the Uni in Seattle to finish off a paper. In Durham the engine is fired up for Autumn term.......
September 2009
Well a bumper month this one. Did some filming for National Geographic - Supercontinents. Lead a short trip round the Ilse of Skye geology for the Afar Rift Consortium, great group. Took a trip through the Etendeka in NW Namibia to look at the volcanics and sediments in the region, Desert Elephants, rock art and great company to boot....marvellous. Finally gave a talk at Stellenbosch Uni in SA and saw some great layered Granite!!
August 2009
Discovery channel version of 'Hottest place on Earth' premiered on 30th August :-)
Two weeks fieldwork in Iceland, some
great rocks
but boy does it rain there!! Discovery version of Hottest place
released at the end of the month, hope it goes down well :-)
Lastest paper in Lithos
Just out a 3D texture paper on Kimberlites :-)
July 2009
Nic gets married this
month
be afraid...very afraid :-)
Back from the Arran feild class. Arran was as beautiful as ever with temperatures up to the 28 dgrees C, dam tropical. Of to Nic's wedding in Italy :-)
June 2009
Had a visit from Scott, all the way from Aussie, great to catch up. Have been filming at Vesuvius for a program which will appear on the history channel :-) more details will follow.
May 2009
Gave an invited talk in Germany at a meeting on South Atlantic at the start of May. Great to meet up with some old faces. Got rained off for the cricket in Chester-le-street, and had some hockey fun in Chester.
April 2009
Great time had in
Visited Colima volcano, thansk to Julie and Nick for some great Geo-Tourism :-)
Hottest Place on Earth on tv sunday at 6pm on BBC1
March 2009
Its Mad March time. Giving some guest talks this month and off to italy diving at the end ;-) And finally the Hottest Place on Earth will be hitting the screens
Feb 2009
Well its starting to get light again. PhD students Jogvan and
Catherine have both
had a papers accepted (well done!), and the calander is filling up.
'I am the Great Cornholio!!'
Jan 2009
Yes 2009!! crazy isn't it. Well we got our NERC grant funded and my new secretary arrived. Just need to get her trained up over the next 18 years ;-)
Dec 2008
Nearly the end of the year but just about time to have another 18th B'day, await a new arrival and fingers crossed for our NERC grant application ;-)
Nov 2008
Full into the term teaching. had a paper accepted and another
subitted from PhD project - well done Catherine :-)
Oct 2008
Out
of Africa article and front page in Geoscientist magazine. Back from
teaching in Tenerife, thanks to Pete Kokelaar for his help. Research
trip to China thanks to Paul (Wiggi) and Dave (Bondi), to look at
Permian extinction rocks.
Sept 2008
LAS III conference on Elba, Italy, looking at great granites and other intrusions.
VMSG Ardnamurchan trip. Well done Davie, Brian O, Brian
B, Jeff, Simon and Kate, for a great fieldworkshop......PING!!
Science Paper Aug 29!!
August 2008 - what a month
The Interantional Volcanological Congress IAVCEI in in Iceland, i will be giving 2 talks there. I will make a TV apperance on 'Britain from Above' on BBC1. PADI diving course in Turkey.
July 2008
July brings a conference in Vancouver, Canada. I am presenting a Keynote there and then going to see some rocks on VC Island :-)
June 2008
Exams out the way and on to the Ilse of Arran for a
fieldclass. A great fieldtrip with lots of good days and rocks.
May 2008
Hokey
tournament in Miami, playing for Durham City's sister club The
Cincinnati Cenuturions - and we won ;-). Visiting Johns
Hopkins
University - Baltimore to catch up with Antarctic research.
April 2008
Quite a crazy month. Visited Brazil for the first time (what a place
:-), and just finished teaching on the Spain fieldclass.
March 2008
Rum article 'Golden Rum' is published in the March issue of
Geoscientist. Skiing in Verbier, Swiss snow heaven.
Volcano lunge makes
'Hall of Fame'
Feb 2008
Hot news: Durham City Hockey Clubs Mens 2nd team perform a team lunge
(see links).
DougalEARTH joins YouTube (see links).
Jan 2008
Recovering from Africa and a spell chained to a toilet, and getting
back into the swing of term time.
Nov/Dec 2007
In Ethiopia on a popular science expedition for TV - more info to
follow.
Erta Ale Dec 2007
Aug/Sept 2007
Visited Namibia and Mexico on fieldwork lots of great rocks and people.
May 2007
Golden Rum meeting to the Isles of Rum & Skye, attended by 30
from
a variety of backgrounds. Fantastic trip. Will be a write up planned
for the Geol.Socs. 'Geoscientist' Magazine for early 2008.
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