We could do it better but we need more experts and students.
- What is your discipline and level of knowledge (e.g. novice, curious, expert, etc)?
I am graduated in geology and I have followed an oceanography master being at Bordeaux at Erasmus exchange programm. I passed ten years at university and my asperger disorder is always focused in Science, I remember a lot of things about geology (a selective and deep memory). I have been programming for four years but I am novice at those questions. I have focused my attention more in geochemisty than geophysics, and I feel pretty fine with mineralogy and petrology, but I can answer too some of the questions related with plate tectonics, geomorphology etc if they are not very technical. I use to search quickly correct information at papers but the trouble is I can only consultate abstracts or free papers.
- What level of engagement are you seeing in your discipline?
I see some good geologists answering, but I would like to see more and more students posting questions. As a feedback to the site I would say the policy is nice for code but a bit hard for exchanges. I think students get discouraged to post anything, moving to anohter site. Working geologists also may find they should expend a lot of his time to adaptate to the policy. phds as Camilo can use more of his time because they are young, they know how the net and the site works well and they may use the profile to put it in his cv. But I definitively think stack should review the police for science based exchanges. About oceanography I don't seee many questions and I would also like to see more users active.
- What level of questions are you generally seeing in your discipline?
I think 1/3 of the questions are geology related. I am fine with it, that goes well and tags contain main geology branches.
- Are you happy with the level of questions being asked, or would you prefer more expert level or more beginner level questions?
Maybe because it is the kind of questions I can answer, but basic geology subjects. This would be usefull for students as stackoverflow was usefull to me as novice programmer. I plan myself to make some of them in some time and by the way stack encourages self-answered questions (note it those who want the site being more complet/usefull).