New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Friday, 29 April 2016
Talking about earthquakes and landslides with "Rosie on the House" this Saturday, April 30
Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant Positions
The Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development is currently accepting applications for Fall 2016 teaching assistant positions. Applicants must be current full-time Columbia University students enrolled in a degree granting program. Applications will only be accepted by graduate students and undergraduate juniors or seniors. The teaching assistants will support the following courses: SDEV W1900 Intro... read
April Data Digest
Three stories published during April describe the ways remotely sensed data and machine learning are changing how Earth is studied and understood; while a fourth shows the beauty of our planet through images [...]
As Predicted: A Rising Tide of Migration
“With sea levels on the rise, several island nations are scrambling to stay above water and ensure citizens will have a place to go when the ocean engulfs their homeland. The humanitarian-crisis phase of [...]The lives and times of flying reptiles as told by the fossil record, part 2: Rhamphorhynchus muensteri
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Indian traffic – Hyderabad Metro railway project and construction
Most of us know, travelling on the roads of Germany can’t be compared to travelling Indian roads! While it is easy to travel longer distances by road and really getting from destination A to B, despite some [...]Lichenalia torta? bryozoan from the Moscow formation of New York
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Devonian; RU,US
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Bildergalerie Vulkan Masaya in Nicaragua
Die Bildergalerie vom Masaya in Nicaragua wurde zwischen dem 20. und 26. April 2016Mi primer EJIP
Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [12:10:00]
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US
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Tutti Frutti Prehistolibros VI
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Ein starkes Erdbeben M 7,0 erschüttertBig Design Build Projects with Dan Brown and Associates
I stumbled across a nice interview of Dan Brown, a recognized deep foundation expert and founder of Dan Brown and Associates, in a back issue of Pile Buck magazine. He discussed some of the large design-build [...]Beached Galveston Whale Raises Concerns and Curiosities
Back in December, a 44-foot sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) washed ashore and died on the Galveston coastline near the Terramar subdivision. It was sighted by a passerby who spied it rolling in the waves, [...]The Consensus on the Consensus Is Itself Overwhelming
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:45:51]
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DE
My friend Ed Maibach at George Mason Univ. emailed me some interesting abstracts today that show how overwhelming the consensus is on climate change among scientists working in the field. Researchers like Ed [...]
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Wooster Geologists in the 2016 Wooster Senior Research Symposium
WOOSTER, OHIO–A dozen Wooster Geologists participated today in the annual Wooster Senior Research Symposium: A Celebration of Independent Study! All did superb presentations that were very well received. [...]
Back on-line
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [18:17:30]
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I am now back on-line. I am going to start posting updates again in few hours. This is just a minor auto-update post for
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Why California’s New Groundwater Management Law is a Game Changer for Mine Operators
Ready or not, California’s new Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (“SGMA”) is here and mine operators should be vigilant in monitoring and actively participating in developments under the law. [...]Toronto Luxury Condos -- The New Urban Wasteland
Toronto condo rents downtown, per person, are up to Palo Alto levels, without the Palo Alto incomes. I always had hope for the city to be the next Palo Alto, but they are doing everything to stop this, [...]Too Hot To Handle?
There’s a reason why people are hesitant to walk over burning coals. Barring those who have congenital analgesia, everyone can feel heat, and unless you live above the Arctic Circle like me, it is not a [...]Graceful Migration
“In principle, coastal defenses could be built to protect the densest cities, but experts believe it will be impossible to do that along all 95,000 miles of the American coastline, meaning that immense [...]Paleo Profile: Mexico’s Mystery Dinosaur
A smattering of bones found in Mexico hints at a new, unknown dinosaurDinossauros num dia pela vida
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [12:06:00]
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Vulkane weltweit
Nachrichten von den Vulkanen Aso, Klyuchevskoy, Sakurajima, WhiteVideo: Monitoring the ground and buildings during SR 99 tunnel construction
This is a great video from WSDOT visualizing all of the geotechnical instrumentation and survey monitoring being done in Downtown Seattle above the Bertha TBM for the Alaska Way Viaduct Replacement project. [...]Dödös get a mönögraph
Here’s an awesome thing that just landed in my mailbox: the new monograph on the Thirioux dodos by Leon Claessens and his collaborators. They’ve done a better job describing what’s cool about [...]Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A terebratulid brachiopod from the Middle Jurassic of northwestern France
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Jurassic; FR
We have another beautiful brachiopod this week from our friend Mr. Clive Champion in England. He sent me a surprise package of fossils earlier this year. They are very much appreciated by me and my students! [...]
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