As I mentioned in my previous quarter-post about our publication in Nature Communications, it's been a minute. And similar to the hiatus here in Pink Moon, our research project on mantle overturn was ten years in the making!
I was invited to share this story on the Earth and Environmental Sciences Community page at Springer Nature. This "behind the paper" look follows the ten year journey from ideation to last week's publication, and why along the way serving margaritas at a Mexican restaurant took precedent over lunar evolution.... You can read more here!
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Welcome back to Pink Moon, ha! It looks like my last post was in 2017. A lot has happened since then including a global pandemic and my family getting chased by a hurricane in the middle of a move across the country during said pandemic (a story for another time). But the reason I'm writing this quarter-post today is that our study on the rapid transition from primary to secondary crust building on the Moon was just published in Nature Communications! Welcome to the Pink Moon! A blog. An update page. I'm not exactly sure it matters. Anyhow, I plan to write about life in the planetary sciences and/or musings on life in general. Sticking with the theme, here you'll read quarter-posts (< 500 words), half-posts (500 - 1000 words), and full-posts (> 1000 words). I think it's fun to stay positive and be inclusive, so you won't find harsh or sarcastic political opinions in Pink Moon. Instead, read this blog if you are interested in planetary science or how a planetary scientist tries to understand the natural world around them. I like to meet new people and understand where they come from. I hope you can find the same here, sincerely.
For the first-ever "full-post" Pink Moon blog, I thought it appropriate to post on April's full Pink Moon (and it's tonight! Literally just look up tonight to see the Full Pink Moon!), which happens to also be the topic AND was the title of my first-ever scientific peer-reviewed publication. I have a lot of people ask me if the "Pink Moon" paper was in reference to the late folk singer-songwriter, Nick Drake. Sort of, but also not really.... |