Triple Point
The world of scientific publishing is evolving rapidly. Alongside the usual “big sharks”—the monopolistic publishing houses that have been dominating the market and pressurizing institutional subscribers for decades—there are a wealth of new, online players emerging under the banner of “Open Access”. Open access journals are web-based scientific journals that are free to read by anyone but require authors to pay a fee for publishing their paper. These open access journals are a true challenge, not only for journals published by non-profit, learned, societies, but also for scientific publishing in general.
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Download Article (PDF) Women are underrepresented in the geosciences (www.americangeosciences.org/workforce/reports). Many different factors affect a woman’s ability to continue and succeed in science. These include a lack of senior women role models; the need for people in partnerships to decide whose career to follow and then to obtain satisfying long-term jobs; inescapable career interruptions for…
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April 2015
P. L. King, A. Edwards, and N. J. Abram
"Recognizing Biases That Affect Women Geoscientists in the Workplace"
2014 Issues -- Volume 10
October 2014
Kevin Murphy
"Of Politics, Science and Learned Societies"
2013 Issues -- Volume 9
June 2013
Art Montana
"Color Blind"
2012 Issues -- Volume 8
February 2012
Paul Schroeder
"Bold New Graphics and Mineralogy"
April 2012
Sarah Penniston-Dorland
"Patching the Leaky Faculty Pipeline"
June 2012
Allison Macfarlane
"Fukushima Lessons: Disconnect between Geology and Nuclear Engineering"
August 2012
Robert Bodnar and Bruce Yardley
"Selling our Science (But Not at All Costs)"
October 2012
Peter Heaney
"A Sabbatical Project"
2011 Issues -- Volume 7
February 2011
Bruce Yardley, Bastian Joachim, and Steeve Bonneville
"Planning Your Career -- A Work in Progress"
April 2011
Rodney Ewing
"Beyond Triage at Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station"
June 2011
Bruce Yardley
"Whose Paper is it Anyway?"
October 2011
Bruce Yardley
"When Accessories are Essentials"
December 2011
Chen Zhu
"The Globalization of Chinese Science: A Threat or an Opportunity?"
2010 Issues -- Volume 6
February 2010
Bruce Yardley
"Do We Need More Applications of Geochemistry?"
April 2010
Marty Goldhaber
"Fostering Integrated Science"
June 2010
Bruce Yardley
"Is This Profound and Significant?"
August 2010
Clive Oppenheimer
"We Told You So! Reflections on the ‘Ashpocalypse’"
December 2010
Marty Goldhaber
"It's Not Just About Climate Change -- What About Soils?"
2009 Issues -- Volume 5
February 2009
Rod Ewing
"Lost in Translation"
April 2009
Sam Mukasa
"Underrepresentation of Women and Minority Awardees in Geoscience Societies"
June 2009
Mickey Gunter
"Asbestos Sans Mineralogy"
August 2009
Rod Ewing
"Is Geochemistry Important?"
October 2009
Gregory Meeker
"Asbestos Sans Mineralogy? A View From A Different Hilltop"
with Mickey Gunter's response
December 2009
Rod Ewing
"Elements' Fifth Anniversary"
2008 Issues -- Volume 4
February 2008
Rod Ewing
"The Future of Elements?"
April 2008
Rodney Ewing
"Will Next Year Be Better?"
June 2008
Roger A. Pielke Jr.
"Scientists and the Next President of the United States"
August 2008
Rodney C. Ewing
"Museums are not Attics"
October 2008
Timothy L. Killeen and Teofilo Abrajano
"Understanding the Triple Point"
December 2008
Rod Ewing
"Et Alii?
2007 Issues -- Volume 3
February 2007
Peter J. Heaney
"Mineralogy and The Composition of an American Science"
April 2007
Peter J. Heaney
"Caught in the Web of Virtual Education"
June 2007
Don L. Anderson
"Looking Glass Worlds"
August 2007
Peter J. Heaney
"What's Your h-Index?"
October 2007
Peter J. Heaney
"The Extinction of Geology"
2006 Issues -- Volume 2
February 2006
Margaret S. Leinen
"Future Directions in Geochemistry and Mineralogy: A View from the National Science Foundation"
April 2006
Peter J. Heaney
"Reflections on Bragg's Law"
June 2006
Sorena Sorensen
"Congratulations from the Common Reader"
August 2006
Dan Kile
"Polarized Light Microscopy in Geoscience Education: Relevant or Obsolete?"
October 2006
Peter J. Heaney
"Grace Under Pressure: A Challenge to the Modern Reviewer"
December 2006
Peter J. Heaney
"Sorry, Levi, But Thanks for the Memories: An Elegy for a Historic Mineral Collection"
2005 Issues -- Volume 1
January 2005
Peter Heaney
"Triple Point"
March 2005
Peter J. Heaney
"Science Societies and the Democratic Process"
June 2005
Peter J. Heaney
"Voices from our Past"
September 2005
Peter J. Heaney
"Searching for Diversity"
December 2005
Scott A. Wood and Mickey E. Gunter
"Making of Meeting of Minds: Reflections on the Organization of the 2005 Goldschmidt Conference