The Knowing Earth White Papers are a portfolio of short documents that address specific questions or issues. This includes workflows to complete specific tasks, such as building a paleoDEM (past landscapes), interrogating climate model results or how to generate hypsometric curves or topographic filters for landscape analysis. We have included pdfs from our blogs on both the Knowing Earth and Pauls Paleo Pages websites. To access the files please click on each of the images, which shows what the file is about.

Part of a more extensive historical study on past energy transitions and the industrial revolution. What insights can past energy transitions provide us today on what drives change and how quickly it can occur.

A follow-up to my blog on field photography here focussed on equipment

A LinkedIn article published by LittleBigFish Ltd which was the company that created the Knowing Earth brand. This article provides background on the branding process and the ideas behind what they produced for Knowing Earth.

The 2018 Knowing Earth Review with some interesting articles on paleogeography, structural mapping, source-to-sink and more.

This blog from 2019 provided an introduction to a new paper on paleogeography published by the Geological Society

An overview of paleogeography and why reconstructing the landscapes of the past is so important. We have also built a suite of lecture courses and workshops that will develop this in more detail

One of the skills of field geology is field sketching. In this blog we provide a step by step guide to how to approach sketching and why it is so important, even in the age of digital cameras

A guide to writing and presentations that you may find useful. This is based on my experience of putting together scientific presentations in commercial and academic settings. We are just finishing follow-up blogs on illustrations and making maps

A blog providing some guides to taking field photographs. Although primarily aimed at students this may be of interest to amateurs and professionals alike

In the Fall of 2018 I invested in a professional scanner to transfer all my printed papers into a more accessible library. This blog provided a review and also the rationale behind this investment.

There are so many blogs with business tips on line that I felt that not providing one would be remiss of me. Here some insights from 30 years in business including my 10 years as a director of a public company.

This was originally written before the COVID pandemic took over our lives. But much of what I wrote then still applies to. What is the next step for hydrocarbon exploration in a rapidly changing world?

With the growing application of AI to investigate 'big data', a critical concern is knowing how good the data is that you are using. Much of my academic and industry career has been concerned in building large databases. Here are some of the lessons I have learned.

Mapping using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) has become de rigueur across the Earth sciences. But do we ever think about why we use the map symbology we do?

An introduction to the Reclus project for investigating crustal architecture and tectonics. This is work in collaboration with Professor Douglas Paton of TectonKnow

An overview of what we have been doing during the COVID pandemic.