About
Brian Romans
San Francisco Bay Area, California
brian ‘at’ clasticdetritus.com | clasticdetritus.com/feed | twitter.com/clasticdetritus
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I am a sedimentary geologist currently working as a researcher. I write mostly about Earth science (usually sedimentary and/or marine geology) and like to share photographs I’ve taken. I don’t blog about my day job — I write about already published research or Earth science in the news.
What does Clastic Detritus mean? These words refer to pieces or fragments of other rocks. Sediments and sedimentary geology is what I spend most of my waking hours pondering. See my research interests page for more.
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Small sampling of what I write about here:
- Using sedimentation rates to infer long-term global climate change (June 2010)
- Rapid canyon formation and uniformitarianism (June 2010)
- Exporting environmental catastrophes (May 2010)
- What do you think of the ‘Anthropocene’? (March 2010)
- Review of the book Sand: The Neverending Story and Q&A with author Michael Welland (January 2010)
- Subduction Denialism (November 2008)
- Source-to-Sink: The future of sedimentary geology? (May 2008)
- Check out the Series page for more
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Contributor to QUEST Community Science Blog:
- I write a weekly geoscience post for San Francisco Bay Area public radio/TV affiliate KQED’s QUEST science website. See all posts here.
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Articles or posts I wrote elsewhere:
- Guest post at the American Geophysical Union’s blog The Plainspoken Scientist: Communicating Science (June 2010) — Why I Blog: Brian Romans
- Article I wrote for EARTH magazine (May 2010) — Must we capture and store carbon from coal to meet emissions-reduction targets?
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Other stuff:
- ResearchBlogging.org home page
- Brief Q&A with me in the Charlotte Observer (July 2010) — Geologist looks at the sea floor, Earth’s surface
- Geotimes article about geology blogs (June 2008) — Geology Bloggers Rock
- Q&A with The Reef Tank blog (April 2009) — Geological Breakdown
- bookmarks shared on delicious with tag ‘geoscience‘
- Flickr photostream
- LibraryThing book catalog
