Geobulletin alpha

Most active blogs:

1. GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union (13 posts)
2. State of the Planet (11 posts)
3. Gunnars Geo-Blog (7 posts)
4. BEYONDbones (7 posts)
5. AGU Meetings (7 posts)
6. Mountain Beltway (6 posts)
7. Koprolitos (5 posts)
8. Ontario-geofish (4 posts)
9. Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) (4 posts)
10. The Landslide Blog (4 posts)

Most visited blogs:

1. State of the Planet (2657 visits)
2. GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union (2224 visits)
3. AGU Meetings (1502 visits)
4. Mountain Beltway (1240 visits)
5. BEYONDbones (1044 visits)
6. Gunnars Geo-Blog (894 visits)
7. Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs (839 visits)
8. Terra Central (693 visits)
9. Koprolitos (677 visits)
10. Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal (677 visits)

Top keywords:

1. General Assembly (9)
2. Hall X2 (6)
3. Houston Museum (5)
4. people (5)
5. Earth (5)
6. Natural Science (5)
7. Early Career Scientists (4)
8. Room K2 (4)
9. Congresos (4)
10. EGU Photo Contest (4)

Top places:

1. Egu (11)
2. United States (7)
3. Houston Museum of Natural Science (5)
4. Ecuador (5)
5. China (5)
6. Illinois (4)
7. Australia (4)
8. Questa (4)
9. Japan (4)
10. Colombia (3)

Top stratigraphy:

1. Permian (2)
2. Devonian (2)
3. Cambrian (2)
4. Carboniferous (2)
5. Paleogene (2)
6. Jurassic (2)
7. Ordovician (1)
8. Triassic (1)
9. Tonian (1)
10. Quaternary (1)

Posts:

The 10 most frequently clicked posts:

Monster Families at the Horniman

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2016-04-22 21:13:00]   recommend this post  (584 visits)

While everyone knows the few 'big name' museums in London (the NHM among them), the city also boasts a surprisingly large number of more low-key institutions, some of which are well worth seeking out for the nuttier natural history enthusiast. One [...]

Announcing the winners of the EGU Photo Contest 2016!

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-04-22 16:00:23]   recommend this post  (581 visits)

The selection committee received over 200 photos for this year’s EGU Photo Contest, covering fields across the geosciences. Participants at the 2016 General Assembly have been voting for their favourites throughout the week  of the conference and [...]

Weber, Plank Elected to American Academy of Arts and Science

State of the Planet [2016-04-22 16:33:56]   recommend this post  (570 visits)

Elke Weber, who studies how people make decisions and how they think about climate change, and Terry Plank, who probes deep into the Earth’s interior to study magma and how volcanoes erupt, are among the members elected to the American Academy of [...]

Friday fold: Crumpled Dinwoody Formation, Sheep Mountain, Wyoming

Mountain Beltway [2016-04-22 12:17:36]   recommend this post  (549 visits)

Today for your folding pleasure, I give you two field GigaPans shot by Jeffrey Rollins, a two-time Rockies field course alumnus and Old Dominion University student working under my colleague Declan De Paor, assisted by NOVA student Bridget Gomez, [...]

Summer 2016 Curriculum & Grading Assistant Positions

State of the Planet [2016-04-22 17:42:09]   recommend this post  (546 visits)

The Sustainability Management program is seeking candidates for Curriculum and Grading Assistant (CGA) positions for the summer 2016 sessions. Responsibilities include updating information in Canvas, reviewing course material with the instructor, [...]

You Can Thank These Three People for Earth Day

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-04-22 23:51:30]   recommend this post  (540 visits)

I remember very well watching the CBS Evening News (46 years ago today) on the first Earth Day. It was a major story, and I believe Walter Cronkite led the broadcast with it. We know a lot more about our planet now than we did then, and there have [...]

It’s Mud Season on Lake Erie

Terra Central [2016-04-22 15:10:04]   recommend this post  (534 visits)

This (above) is a MODIS satellite image of Lake Erie taken April 15, 2016. It clearly shows sediment entering the lake from major rivers and tributaries. The brownish hues on the land surface indicate “leaf off,” dead or dormant plant [...]

Meet Pepperoni the Robin, and Friends

State of the Planet [2016-04-22 21:01:04]   recommend this post  (506 visits)

Natalie Boelman and colleagues are tagging American robins near Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada, as the birds migrate north to nesting grounds. In a recent blog post for NASA, she put up videos about their work. You can watch some of them below, or go [...]

Among Waves and Whirlwinds: A Mid-Cruise Account

AGU Meetings [2016-04-22 19:12:06]   recommend this post  (473 visits)

On the morning of the 19th, the R/V Falkor entered harbor in the country of Tonga after nearly 12 days at sea. As we stood on the deck watching the dockworkers heave lines to and fro, several scientists breathed a sigh of relief, for we had spent a [...]

Data from the masses: Crowdsourcing and citizen science enhance the scientific process

AGU Meetings [2016-04-22 16:13:35]   recommend this post  (470 visits)

Witness a landslide, feel an earthquake or observe the first buds of spring? Take out your cell phone and report a data