Research at a snail's pace

It's been quite the academic year. The spring semester is now finished and final grades are just about finished. Summer research is gear...

Advisement day is today. We've got plenty of advice for students. But a big goal for me is to cultivate a sense of ownership and urgency...

I've been dabbling in astrophotography lately. I'm building a "barn-door" mount and also fitting a worm-drive motor to an ...

The Egyptians worshipped us as gods. Future archeologists will look at your Facebook timeline and reach the same conclusion about you. Now, ...

My biggest problem with photography during field work is the issue of water and dust. Neither of which are really good for expensive cameras...

One of the challenges in teaching Plate Tectonics to introductory students is that - along with being spread out over a huge scale - most o...