Dr. Evan J. Gowan

Geochronological reconstruction of the glacial evolution in the Ésera valley (Central Pyrenees) during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Abstract. Since the MIS (Marine Isotope Stage) 4, glaciers in the Pyrenees were subject to intricate dynamics, encompassing some advances and retreats not always aligned with the fluctuations observed...

🌡️ Climate of the Past

Glacial evolution of the Ésera valley since the Late Pleistocene doi.org/10.5194/cp-2...

🕑 Geochronology (GChron)

FAIR fission track analysis with geochron@home doi.org/10.5194/gchr...

I saw some posts about Homo Erectus, and it got me thinking. How did Homo Erectus get out of Africa? The ice sheets in the Early Pleistocene were not as big as the Middle and Late Pleistocene, so sea level would not have dropped as much.

The Kamchatka earthquake last year could apparently be felt here in Kyushu, but I was on a bus when it arrived. Similar distance!

He is basically the personification of an exaggerated comic book villain.

Wow check out this lovely paper, ice flow and deglacial reconstruction and -gold dust- new dates on ice retreat in central Ireland, a long term blank on the map

Time is running out, get those abstracts in now!

#GAC-MACis in St. John's this year! Sign up for our short course and submit an abstract to our session focusing on glacial landscapes from "the core to the shore"! and everything in between. Submit abstracts and sign up here: lnkd.in/gMKw6S_a

Early Independence: NERC Independent Research Fellowship 2026 Apply for a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship (IRF) to further your career through an independent research project.

Call for 5-year NERC Independent Research Fellowships is now open. No limit on grant value and open to international applicants. If you're interested in being hosted by Earth Sciences at Oxford, our internal expression of interest deadline is 16th March. Further details: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Sounds like a situation where adding more buses would make sense? How does raising the fees help?

I'm currently writing a paper listening to Opeth's Still Life. Extreme forms of metal have usually been my go-to writing music (Slayer was on repeat during my master's thesis writing phase), although I don't usually listen to metal.

Good luck with your submission!

I wish I had the capability to write such a short paper. Everything I do seems to be some massive literature review!

Yeah sure, machine translations of a menu or an email is fine. But whenever I find the time to read I Am A Cat, I am going to read a version that is translated by a person (I am looking for a copy of the original translation, which Soseki edited himself). A machine translation would be dreadful.

The dumbness of this guy's take is especially galling when you consider that machine translation of Japanese will almost always make mistakes with pronouns, because they are often not used and so it has to make a guess. The AI is not capable of understanding context.

Ice Sheets of North America - AntarcticGlaciers.org During the Quaternary Period, North America was covered by three ice sheets: the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Laurentide Ice Sheet and Innuitian Ice Sheet. During the last glacial cycle, these ice sheets we...

Delighted to announce a new section on #AntarcticGlaciers devoted to North American glaciation. Read here to find out about the Laurentide Ice Sheet and its Geomorphology, extent at the LGM and deglaciation.
www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacial-geol...

The oldest known fossilized amniote cloaca. (Lorenzo Marchetti/Natural History Museum, Berlin)

The resting trace of an early reptile. (Lorenzo Marchetti/Natural History Museum, Berlin)

At the tip of this arrow, there is a 290 million years old impression of a cloaca from a fossilised reptile of the Goldlauter Formation in Germany.

It’s the oldest known butthole.

#PaleoSky ⚒️

It blows my mind that any scientist with a PHD, who should have done a lot of literature reviews, would think that generative AI could meaningfully do a literature review.

Compilation of Paleo Sea Level Data from the Atlantic coast of South America A Holocene beach ridge in Camarones, Argentina, which formed when sea level was higher than it is now. Karla Rubio-Sandoval et al (including me!) have published a massive dataset of paleo sea level…

I have written a blog post about a paper that just came out that I am coauthor on, led by Karla Rubio-Sandoval, on a massive compilation of Holocene paleo sea level data along the Atlantic Coast of South America. raisedbeaches.net/2026/02/23/c...

Make sure to check out the open access paper! doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...

Compilation of Paleo Sea Level Data from the Atlantic coast of South America A Holocene beach ridge in Camarones, Argentina, which formed when sea level was higher than it is now. Karla Rubio-Sandoval et al (including me!) have published a massive dataset of paleo sea level…

I have written a blog post about a paper that just came out that I am coauthor on, led by Karla Rubio-Sandoval, on a massive compilation of Holocene paleo sea level data along the Atlantic Coast of South America. raisedbeaches.net/2026/02/23/c...

How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded? Abstract. Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to limit the long-term increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 °C relative to p...

How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded?

Open review until 11 March

essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

Obviously a disappointing night for Canada to come up short in hockey! Next time.

However, as a Winnipeg Jets fan, it is nice to see Connor Hellebuyck keep things under control in a big game. Hopefully this will lead to some momentum to make the playoffs.

AN INTRODUCTION TO FORAMINIFERA The Foraminiferida are an important group of single celled protozoa.  There are an estimated 8,000 species living in the world’s oceans today, among  the sea floor and the marine plankton and compr…

AN INTRODUCTION TO FORAMINIFERA paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/a...

I was along the coast of Miyazaki today. Perfect weather!

Frontiers | The Antarctic Peninsula under present day climate and future low, medium-high and very high emissions scenarios The Antarctic Peninsula is warming rapidly, with more frequent extreme temperature and precipitation events, reduced sea ice, glacier retreat, ice shelf coll...

Our new paper on the future of the Antarctic Peninsula published today, showing how the various systems across the Peninsula will be impacted by different global warming scenarios.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

Oxford Earth Sciences is recruiting an Associate Professor (Tutorial Fellow) in Earth Surface Processes (broadly interpreted, including carbon cycle, ancient and modern carbonates, biogeochemistry, geohazards, etc). Please share! Further details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

A thread for the 15-year anniversary of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. I won’t have a chance to post it on the day, so I’m doing it a couple days early. Note that the work I’m posting was carried out by many brilliant people. 1/

Onset of millennial climate variability with the intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation The Quaternary Period (the last 2.58 Ma) was characterized by the waxing and waning of large ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere. Using sediment sequences from the Iberian Margin, we demonstrate tha...

Very proud of this one:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It is hard to believe it has been almost 5 years since I left there!

「青い紙を警察官から…」外国人向けの交通安全教室に約20人参加（2026年2月17日掲載）｜KKT NEWS NNN 外国人のための交通安全教室で熊本県警が自転車の交通ルールについて説明しました。

It seems I can avoid being on Japanese TV! Although this time I am only in the background, not interviewed. The police gave a presentation on the new cycling rules, and I was very impressed that they kept the Japanese at a level that I could understand everything. news.ntv.co.jp/n/kkt/catego...

@evangowan.bsky.social Interesting to hear about the #DiamondOpenAccess GEUS Bulletin (geusbulletin.org), I was not aware of this option. "Platform for Earth Science research and data published in Denmark, Greenland and the wider Arctic", sounds good! 👍

#ScientificPublishing #ScolarlyPublishing