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Dear Dr. Rock,When I drove US 97 in the Bend, Oregon area, I saw two kinds of volcanoes. One kind, The Sisters, were high, steep and snowy. The others, like Lava Butte just south of town, or Pilot Butte, right in town, are low heaps of loose rock [...]
29 December 2012 Santiago to the Falkland Islands and Boarding the Akademik Ioffe We’re on our way! One hundred seventeen passengers and staff made the one flight a week that goes to the Falkland Islands from Chile. The first leg of the [...]
I thought I'd have a little more fun with the Census Dotmap I posted about a couple days ago, by conjuring up a shot of the Great Basin:
Screenshot from Census dotmap by @ewedistrict and @kieran.
The dotmap highlights the lack of people living [...]
The Earth Institute, Columbia University is pleased to announce 12 research assistant opportunities for undergraduate students during the spring 2013 semester. Undergraduates from Columbia and Barnard will be able to serve as research assistants on [...]
South Georgia Glaciers By Richard Alley Among its many charms, the island of South Georgia is known for glaciers. Over half of the island is covered in “permanent” snow and ice (more on this soon!), especially on the southwest side facing the [...]
As wildlife trafficking has become more lucrative, widespread and organized over the past few years, the definition of high-value natural resources should be modified to include the commercial values of wildlife and its products, and immediately [...]
Os duendes de estatísticas do WordPress.com prepararam um relatório para o ano de 2012 deste blog. Aqui está um excerto: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 63.000 times in 2012. If it [...]
I have updated the “Best of the GeoChristian” link up at the top of the page. There is a good variety: posts on Christianity, geology, creationism, the environment, atheism, apologetics, and more. I would be interested to hear if there [...]
Further information is now available about the remarkable engineered slope failure at Bukit Setiawangsa in
Here’s our “yard list” of birds since we moved to the new place in June: Pileated woodpecker Red-bellied woodpecker Eastern phoebe Great blue heron White-breasted nuthatch Scarlet tanager Whippoorwill Chipping sparrow Ruby-throated [...]