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Exploiting high resolution topography data for advancing the understanding of mass and energy transfer across landscapes: Opportunities, challenges, and needs (USGS Powell Center working group)

Active Tectonics Blog [2014-04-01 04:00:00]   recommend this post  (873 visits)

"TIME FOR IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS WITHOUT DISTRACTIONS"--That is one of the opportunities presented to USGS Powell Center Working Groups. Indeed and quite pleasantly we have begun our discussions in the working group entitled "Exploiting high resolution [...]

Constructing hypotheses on behaviour in the fossil record

Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings [2014-04-01 17:03:11]   recommend this post  (844 visits)

Those keeping up with papers on palaeoethology may well have noticed that a number of papers have gone online in the Journal of Zoology of late with a common theme. Darren Naish has a paper on the behaviour of fossil birds, Andy Farke has one on [...]

HEFCE’s new open-access policy for post-2014 outputs

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2014-03-31 12:07:41]   recommend this post  (742 visits)

This morning sees the publication of the new Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework from HEFCE, the Higher Education Funding Council for England. It sets out in details HEFCE’s requirement that [...]

Monday paper: Interplay of riparian forest and groundwater in the hillslope hydrology of Sudanian West Africa (northern Benin)

G-Soil [2014-03-31 10:00:34]   recommend this post  (613 visits)

Richard, A., Galle, S., Descloitres, M., Cohard, J.-M., Vandervaere, J.-P., Séguis, L., and Peugeot, C. 2013. Interplay of riparian forest and groundwater in the hillslope hydrology of Sudanian West Africa (northern Benin), Hydrology and Earth [...]

Radioactivity

GeoMika [2014-04-03 19:00:40]   recommend this post  (608 visits)

Some elements are naturally radioactive, releasing alpha particles, beta particles, or gamma radiation as they decay to more stable elements. The decay in a fixed period of time is proportional to the number of unstable atoms, with exponential decay [...]

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: Thoroughly encrusted brachiopod from the Upper Ordovician of Indiana

Wooster Geologists [2014-03-30 07:47:29]   recommend this post  (597 visits)

Last week was an intensely bored Upper Ordovician bryozoan, so it seems only fair to have a thoroughly encrusted Upper Ordovician brachiopod next. The above is, although you would hardly know it, the ventral valve exterior of a common strophomenid [...]

Oso Landslide Update

GeoPrac.net [2014-04-03 15:36:35]   recommend this post  (591 visits)

The Oso Landslide death toll is now up to 29. This is one of the worst natural hazard disasters I can remember in recent times. First and foremost I think should be the memories of the victims. There are so many heart-wrenching stories of the people [...]

Soil colour never lies

G-Soil [2014-03-30 20:27:20]   recommend this post  (583 visits)

Often, soil color is described using general terms such as “brown”, “red”, “dark”, etc. When I talk about this issue for the first time with my students of Soil Science, I use to ask them how to describe the color [...]

O Best Beloved: Just-so stories in ecology and evolution

The Contemplative Mammoth [2014-04-02 20:52:12]   recommend this post  (573 visits)

Sloth-moth symbiosis. Dinosaur-devestating asteroid impacts. Girl’s preference for pink. Are these fact, or fiction? It turns out that often what we think we know about the world is more based on story-telling than the byproduct of the [...]

LA Earthquake: Don’t panic.

GeoMika [2014-03-30 00:36:56]   recommend this post  (512 visits)

I wrote an anti-hysterical guide to the earthquakes in Los Angeles for io9. Head over for the geology, seismology of recent earthquakes, interpreting risk forecasting, and preparing for the Big One without freaking