It’s like friggin Rio around here. The geologically minded have their own blog carnival now: The Accretionary Wedge. Issue no. 1 is now up at Clastic Detritus. The first issue has geo-bloggers musing over how/why they became geologists.
Though woefully late to the fore, I can’t resist, after all I have a bachelor’s degree…in geology! Just consider this the extraordinarily shallow, heavily-bioturbated, veneer of biogenic ooze atop the accretionary wedge.
Right. So without further ado, “Why am I a geologist?”
[all pictures copyright Jessica Oster except above and very bottom]
I am a nonconformist.
I am prone to erratic behavior.
I could blow my top at any moment.
I have a deep appreciation for the entrenched wisdom,
but I love the breakthroughs.
Most of all,
I just love the sense of scale.
microecos 
3 September 2007 at 11:48 pm
nice…I like the photo-essay approach
FYI, the archive site is here now:
http://theaccretionarywedge.wordpress.com/
3 September 2007 at 11:53 pm
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4 September 2007 at 4:30 am
Are you studying geology at UC-Davis? Who is your advisor? I did my undergrad there, graduated in 2004, BSc Evolution and Ecology, one class away (Paleoclimates i think its called) from a double major in geology. I studied with Vermeij a bit. And McClain and Zierenberg gave me my start in deep sea biology by taking me on a cruise to the East Pacific Rise for a month to help them operate the Towed Camera Sled.
4 September 2007 at 9:44 am
Well, at least I’ll finish long before you, so I won’t have to be constantly upstaged. You have a great photographer, though.