Author: kpoinar

Though the total carbon content of the mantle is largely unknown, the isotopic signatures of its sources and sinks suggests much about how the mantle operates. Together, geochemical and mineralogical… Continue reading The carbon cycle in the mantle

We visited the Eternal Flame, a methane seep at a local waterfall, on a beautiful fall Saturday. Eternal Flame Falls is a short hike from a huge parking lot at… Continue reading Lab trip to the Eternal Flame Falls

This month, I had the pleasure to be a guest at Canisius Conservation Conversations, a student-produced podcast at the Institute for the Study of Human-Animal Relations at Canisius College, Buffalo.… Continue reading Canisius Conservation Conversations

I like the paper “Distortion of isochronous layers in ice revealed by ground-penetrating radar” by Vaughan, Corr, Doake, and Waddington (1999), Nature, 398(6725), 323–326, doi:10.1038/18653. The paper describes the field… Continue reading Vaughan et al., 1999 Supplementary Information