Timefulness was longlisted for the 2019 PEN/E.O.Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing, and was a f inalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. A contributing writer to The New Yorker, Wired, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, she is also the author of several books for popular audiences - Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World and Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities.

She has done research in high arctic Norway (Svalbard) and Canada (Ellesmere Island), as well as mainland Norway, Italy, New Zealand, and the Lake Superior region.ījornerud is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Oslo, Norway and University of Otago, New Zealand. Marcia Bjornerud on Timefulness Our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us, and our habits will in turn have consequences that will outlast us by generations. Ross Mitchell provides a cinematic view of Earth over billion-year timescales, showing how the slow-motion dance of the continents has a deep underlying logic that makes it possible to predict geographies of the distant future. She combines field-based studies of bedrock geology with quantitative models of rock mechanics. I can’t remember how, exactly, I stumbled across Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, by Marcia Bjornerud, a professor of geosciences. Marcia Bjornerud is a structural geologist whose research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building.

Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud