February 2009

Note to subscribers:The print version of Geoscientist magazine has been delayed this month by circumstances entirely outside the magazine's control.  Copies will be despatched from our mailing house from February 4.  Readers can expect to receive it during the following week.  We are very sorry for the delay.  Editor.

Editorial

• The unbearable dullness of scientists?  Ted Nield weighs a new caricature of modern science in the balance and finds it wanting
• Shaping tomorrow's geoscientists - John Noad urges everyone to get out there and spread the word

 

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• Wine into water - Nina Morgan on a wine merchant who went down the drain in Oxford

 

Geonews

• News in Brief - Joe McCall ponders ancient rocks and exoplanets with added gas

 

Society at Large

• Society Awards 2009 - Society honours Paul Hoffman
• Shell London Lectures
• Elections (Fellows Only)

Reviews

• Three book reviews, by Jamie Blackwell, Rick Brassington and Warren Hamilton

Opinion

• Owing to the election coverage there is no opinion piece this month

Features

• Early settler - Sally Gibson retraces Darwin's footsteps on the Galapagos, and documents the less well-known geological discoveries he made there.

Letters

Crossword
Sticks & Stones
By DUGZ.