… brought to you by Earth System Science (ESS) and Cambridge Climate, Life and Earth (C-CLEAR) DTP students. This is a series of blogs written by PhD students involved in the NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships at Cambridge. They have a diverse range of expertise and research areas, with students from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge in the following departments: Archaeology, Chemistry, DAMTP, Earth Sciences, Genetics, Geography, Plant Sciences and Zoology.
By Euan Mutch
In a world where the power of nature is misunderstood, and rocks don’t collect themselves. Two clueless igneous geologists must travel to the mysterious land of fire and ice to unravel the hidden secrets of the mantle. They must scale mountains, ford ferocious torrents, fight the elements and evade local law enforcement to collect samples vital in the fight for geological understanding. … Continue reading