Hypocentre

Hypocentre a.k.a.
Dr Ian G. Stimpson. Seismologist, geophysicist and structural geologist at Keele University, U.K.
You can contact me at hypocentre [at] gmail [dot] com.
All opinions are mine and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
The Out Campaign

That was the year that was – 2009 Part Two

Continuing my photographic review of the year following on from Part 1 …

July saw the start of working on the Staffordshire Strategic Stone Study which has seen me spend the summer traversing the county looking at various building stones. This has included visits to two quarries that have provided much of Staffordshire’s building stone, Grinshill [...]

That was the year that was – 2009 Part One

In a fashion, after Sciencewoman, Tuff Cookie, Callan and Silver Fox, here is the first part of my personal photographic review of 2009.

January came and went, unnoticed. In February I did a guided geological walk for the residents of Maer, Staffordshire and part of the Darwin bicentenary celebrations. Maer was where Charles married his cousin [...]

Fully Equipped Geologist

The “fully equipped geologist” meme is the latest sweeping the geoblogosphere, started by Geotripper,with follow ups so far from Johannes Lochmann, Kim Hannula, and Silver Fox.

The above photo is typical autumn/spring wear. Note the inherent lack of trust in modern gps technology and the back-up folded ordnance survey map.

Hair: Cut short, I just get annoyed [...]

Waterfalls Meme

Started by Lockwood, and continued by Silver Fox and Callan Bentley is a US centric waterfalls meme.

As I’ve got my scanner handy, here are a few Icelandic waterfalls to attempt to redress the balance…

Goðafoss

Gullfoss

Selfoss

Highest Points Meme (UK Edition)

Callan has started the latest geoblogosphere meme, highest points, with follow ups at the time of writing by ReBecca and Geology Happens. It is, however, somewhat US centric. So here is my UK version – old fangled counties, new fangled metres.

Pen-Y-Fan

England and Wales Edit: source

Caernarfonshire 1,085 Snowdon
Cumberland 978 Scafell Pike
Westmorland 950 Helvellyn
Merionethshire 905 [...]