Lounge of the Lab Lemming

I'm a geochemist. My main interest is in-situ mass spectrometry, but I have a soft spot in my heart for thermodynamics, poetry, drillers, trees, bicycles, and cosmochemistry.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Playing with science metrics

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There are numerous critiques, both online and in the literature (pdf), of the overused H-index and journal impact factor (IF) metri...

Friday, November 13, 2015

hiatus

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I've been working on a manuscript and other things. so it could be quiet around here for a while.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Geosonnet 35

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The bluestone of which Melbourne is constructed Is fresh basalt, from NVP derived And yet no ocean slab is here subducted No spre...

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Geosonnet 34

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Our bodies' carbon, oxygen derives From hearts of stars, extinguished into dust Life resurrects these molecules, and strives ...

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Geosonnet 33

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The swiftest planet, closest to the sun Is roasted in the star's infernal gaze. In polar craters, dawn has n'er begun Ete...

Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Geosonnet 32

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Southwest from where Doc Livingstone was found The grand conglomerate caps old black shales. The rhenium, in micro-pyrite bound, Can...

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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Geosonnet 31

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Gyrations of a topsy-turvy world Could spur migration of the cryosphere No snowball Earth, just poles and tropics whorled The data which ...

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Hard rock men and soft rock girls

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Readers with short attention spans who waste too much time on social media may have noticed that Brian Romans has been complaining over on...

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