I’m packing up for a field stint in the tropics, trying not to zap zebras while imaging the subsurface. While chatting with colleagues over lunch, she advocated for packing evaporated milk to mix with boiling water when consuming antimalarial medication, … Continue reading
My first crew chief, a man who radiated so much rugged masculinity he was promptly nicknamed “Stallone” or “Rambo” in every camp he worked, flagged all our radios in pink. This differentiated the company crew radios from the survey site’s … Continue reading
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When hunting for snowshoes in the equipment room, I discovered snowboards and skis. I am now utterly enchanted by the concept of a downhill geophysical survey. If we blend in some techniques from urban skiing in small town British Columbia, … Continue reading
“I have no good explanation for why a geophysical company has so many teddy bears.” Explanations proffered on social media include: Fashionable cushions for high amplitude seismic testing. “Padding”-ton bears to supplement shock-foam when packing shipments. Hug-providers for when data-processing … Continue reading
Earlier this year, it made headlines when the Royal Society opened its archives of historic, interesting, and sometimes just downright strange articles. The quieter story is the two men who made this happen, as related to me by the ever-informative … Continue reading
One of the sessions at the Open Science: Friends of the Future un-conference focused on the future of fieldwork. Like every other session, it tied back to earlier conversations (particularly those regarding multi-discipline collaboration and handling extremely large data sets) … Continue reading
Overheard at the office: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger coffee. I have an image of a cyclopsian monster brewing coffee strong enough to dissolve stir spoons.
I keep getting asked what a field geophysicist actually does. Geophysics is an adventure vacation crossed with electronics lab; field geophysicists are the hybrid offspring of MacGuyver and a James Bond villan. Geophysics is the science of collecting data on … Continue reading
When you’re working under a wind-blown tarp with 48mm of rain coming down in 24 hours, water creeps in where it really shouldn’t, and gear shorts out. Most geophysics equipment is amiable to field repairs, using twisted wire and clamps … Continue reading
