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Simon Jowitt

Simon Jowitt is an economic geologist who is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Originally from Yorkshire, he has a BSc (Hons) degree in Geology from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in Mining Geology from the Camborne School of Mines, and a PhD from the University of Leicester, all in the UK. Prior to joining UNLV in 2016 Simon spent eight years at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, initially as a postdoctoral research fellow focusing on magmatic sulfide systems. Simon is currently the Chief Editor of Applied Earth Science, an Associate Editor of Economic Geology and Ore Geology Reviews and is on the editorial boards of Results in Geochemistry, Lithosphere, Frontiers in Economic Geology and Springer-Nature Applied Sciences. He is also vice-President of the IAVCEI Large Igneous Provinces Commission and Mineral Resources Subgroup Chair of the American Geological Institute’s Critical Needs 2020 Working Group, 2019–2020.

Colour deficient vision and the geosciences; just another way of looking at things

September 18, 2020
Colour deficient vision and the geosciences; just another way of looking at things
Mineralogically complex drillcore from Australia (Photo by Simon Jowitt)

Like a reasonably large proportion of the population, I have colour vision deficiency (also known as colour deficient vision or colourblindness). I’m not going to get into the technical aspects of what this is like as they are covered well here and here, and you can do an Ishihara test, and other tests here, to check your own vision. The other reason I’m not going to discuss the technicalities of ...[Read More]