The Tyee, a local Vancouver e-newspaper with a decidedly liberal bent today published an article on peer review of Mt Polley. David Ball is the author of the piece. I think he did a good job in balancing the opinions. I admit to being hopelessly prejudiced in this opinion. For if you read David’s piece, you
A few days ago, we flew from Punta Arenas, Chile to Rothera Station in Antarctica. We flew in a small Dash 7 that is operated by the British Antarctic Survey.The Dash 7 waiting for us at the Punta Arenas [...]
Here at the paleontology lab at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and NC State University, we’ve been working on bringing North Carolina kids to the forefront of science. We’ve been fortunate to [...]
Economic times have been hard for federal, state and local transportation agencies as well as industry representatives since the recession started. Getting approval to travel for conferences or training [...]
Underwhelming Lovecraft by Patrick
Geology for Global Development [12:40:22]
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(Credit: Geology for Global Development, 2014) This truck load of sugar cane was one of many observed on this stretch of road from Antigua leading to a volcanic observatory around the volcano Fuego. [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [10:05:07]
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…is not actually about scholarly publication. It’s Steve Albini’s keynote address at Melbourne’s Face the Music conference. It’s about the music industry, and how the internet [...]
I like Hayward Baker's series of videos using animations to demonstrate different geotechnical construction methods. This video demonstrates how tangent pile shafts or secant pile shafts are constructed. [...]
Adolfo Serra es un ilustrador nacido en Teruel (España) que estudió Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas, pero que muy temprano retornó a su verdadera pasión desde niño: dibujar. De esta forma, retomó los [...]
Heavy Metal Frost on Venus ?The Geological Society of America Volcanoes on VenusGeology.com Warmest Ocean Waters on RecordKITV4 & University of Hawaii Alaska Shows No Signs of Rising Arctic MethaneNASA [...]
On Wednesday 19th 2014 the second annual World Toilet Day was celebrated. It is backed by the United Nations and intends to raise awareness about the 2.5 billion people worldwide who still don’t have access [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:24:31]
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My friends at Climate Central produced an excellent video that you should see and
So today, I decided to make a dinosaur tournament with 16 dinosaurs. (all dinosaurs will be told later)
I want you to choose who is cooler-looking out of the dinosaurs below.
Triceratops VS Allosaurus
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Todd Miner, a 2011 alumnus of the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program, was honored by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) for his work as the Director of [...]
For a long time the apparent discrepancy between the age of earth and the age of the cosmos posed a great problem to geologists and astronomers alike. Geologists had calculated, using methods like erosion or [...]
Today, a famous Toronto newspaper columnist tore into Uber, based on the fact that the founder is an obnoxious pirk. They all are, down there, and we need some of those in Toronto. I mean, we have Conrad, [...]
SOILS MATTER, GET THE SCOOP! [14:00:38]
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Question: I’ve heard soil scientists referred to as “pedologists” and the study of soil referred to as “pedology.” What is the origin of these terms? “Ped” makes me [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [10:44:00]
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Ilustração de Gerhard Boeggemann
Depois de um trabalho extensivo sobre a anatomia do esqueleto axial de Europasaurus publicado em 2014 por José Luis Carballido e Martin Sander, foi publicado [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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A recent addition to my Moroccan trilobites is this Asaphellus fezouataensis from the Ordovician (Floian stage), Fezouata Formation in the Draa Valley near Zagora, Morocco (Western Sahara). I bought this at a [...]
By April of 2015, the contractor for Arizona DOT's US 89 Landslide Stabilization project will have move over 1 million cubic yards of material to build a massive stabilizing berm. They are using CAT 773 haul [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [08:22:38]
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Ecolo Bremen lädt Start-Ups der Region HB-OL-FRI ein: 8.000 Euro
Wooster Geologists [05:35:35]
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The fossils above have been in a previous post as examples of hyolith internal molds from the Middle Ordovician of northern Estonia. I collected them on my first visit to the Baltic countries in 2006. This [...]
JOIDES Resolution blogs [04:45:41]
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While packing my bags for my journey to the Bay of Bengal, I double check to make sure I do not forget anything. What I know for sure is that I [...]
The days just after Thanksgiving are always busy at the Museum. There are flurries of children on field trips, shoppers looking for that unusual and prefect gift and, my favorite, the annual installation of [...]