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Lucknow the hidden gem of India
…and the Indian rebellion of 1857 Claude Martin was a Frenchman who had served in the French East India Company. After their defeat by the British East India Company he…
2011 – Expect big things from Van Walt
…and grow. Secondly, it may have been the holiday period but we’ve been busy preparing for 2011 – our plans are ambitious and, because many of the initiatives will affect…
16th QRA International Postgraduate Symposium Durham 2011
…take part in the field trip visiting a number of sites along the Durham coast to explore the glacial, sea-level and fluvial Quaternary history of the region. Danni Pearce, Quaternary…
An insatiable demand for data
…were plastered with framed images and yet they ordered more frames, kilometres of them. And throughout my career which now spans almost 40 years I’ve experienced the same about data….
A very organised chaos
…images. His information was plentiful and somewhat overwhelming in quantity but I’m sure he said that there were as many as nine Delhis. In fact, according to the government website…
An update from our India correspondent by Rory Flood
…hours of car journeys to cloistered ports and steaming across the estuarine-deltaic islands of the Sundarbans of West Bengal, India. Since October 2010 I have been working on my PhD…
Trip to the tropics: rising water in the Rift Valley lakes
…living there into a narrowing strip between the water and the boundary of the park. The water levels in the Eastern Rift Valley lakes have a history of fluctuating wildly….
Travelling with your children
…the location of a major disaster in 2011. Mostly parents continue to view their adult children as if they were still 6-year olds but not on these trips. I’ve been…
What’s cooler than a Enzo Ferrari?
…another orbit, the see that an electron has been knocked out of a lower orbit and decide to take up that space on the lower orbit). When the electron from…
Sunderbans, West Bengal, India
…on deck under a mosquito net and this afforded me a wonderful night sky and amazing sunrises in the humid sultry air. In the four days we sampled mainly with…
Easter lazyness and indecision
…to add the best from our last trip to India. And here the problem starts and indecision sets in. So after at least two hours of deep analysis I need…
Sedimentology – the stuff of legends!
“What could be cuter Than to feed a computer With wrong information But naïve expectation To obtain with precision A Napoleonic decision?” Adding more notes to my ‘to-do’ list I’m…