Dr. Oliver Strimpel

Oliver has a physics degree from Cambridge University and a PhD in astrophysics from Oxford University. After four years as a curator at the Science Museum, London, he was recruited to The Computer Museum in Boston, where, as Curator and Director, he developed exhibitions on the history, technology, and applications of computers. It was his desire to understand how the physical landscape came to be that led him to geology. After taking several courses at the Open University and at MIT, Sam Bowring at MIT invited him to learn about geochronology in his isotope lab. Then, Mike Searle at Oxford suggested he take on a research project, which developed into an effort to pin down movement along the Karakoram fault in Ladakh by U-Pb dating of various intrusive phases adjacent to the fault near Lake Pangong in Ladakh. Geology Bites grew out of a wish to share nuggets and perspectives of this remarkable field of study.

Geology Bites. – Podcast conversations about Geology

Dr. Oliver Strimpel April 23, 2021

Podcast conversations about geology with researchers making key contributions to our understanding of the Earth and the Solar System Since you are reading an EGU Blog, you must already know how remarkable the field of geology is. The subject matter stretches the imagination – with its almost cosmological timescales, processes operating on scales from the atomic to the continental, and unima ...[Read More]