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Friday, 20 October 2017

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Tiefseebergbau: Transparentes Umweltmanagement muss gewährleistet werden 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [17:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (518 visits) info
     Welche Folgen hat der Abbau metallischer Rohstoffe in der Tiefsee für das Ökosystem Meer? Kann ein solcher Abbau auch umweltschonend gestaltet werden? Und wie kann die Einhaltung von Abbauregeln überwacht werden? Drei Jahre lang haben sich Forschende aus elf Nationen in dem am GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel koordinierten Projekt „MiningImpact“ intensiv mit

Undergraduate Senior Focuses Thesis on Democratic Process in Ghana 

State of the Planet [21:50:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (513 visits) info
Motivated by the opportunity to give back to her country, Ohemaa Ofori-Atta is studying Sustainable Development at

Lake Superior Weather Buoy Provides Valuable New Data 

Lake Scientist [16:36:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (477 visits) info
Superior Watershed Partnership deployed a new buoy in a remote area near Stannard Rock to provide Lake Superior weather data to locals and researchers. The post Lake Superior Weather Buoy Provides Valuable [...]

GeoTalk: Hellishly hot period contributed to one of the most catastrophic mass extinctions of Earth’s history 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info
Geotalk is a regular feature highlighting early career researchers and their work. Following the EGU General Assembly, we spoke to Yadong Sun, the winner of a 2017 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early [...]

Can't See the Forest for the Creek; Or is it the Other Way Around? California's Mega-droughts 

Geotripper [09:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
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The eastern Sierra Nevada is home to one of the strangest forests I know of. It's not the species of tree that is odd; they are mostly Ponderosa, a pretty but unremarkable tree which can also be found on the [...]

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Foraminifera clustered around a sponge boring (Campanian of southwestern France) 

Wooster Geologists [06:01:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
If all goes to plan, today I leave for the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, held this year in Seattle, Washington. To mark the occasion, this week’s fossil is from a poster Macy Conrad [...]

Great Arizona ShakeOut Results 

Arizona Geology [23:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (47 visits) info
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The Great Arizona ShakeOut enrolled more 111,000 people. To learn more you'll have to join us at our new blog environment.  http://blog.azgs.arizona.edu/ Please do join us. Thanks,

Final Stop: Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf 

State of the Planet [18:07:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
We have embarked! Our third Antarctic field season is underway, putting us only 18 flights away from completing our mission to map the Ross Ice Shelf, the largest ice shelf in

Vegaviidae, a new clade of southern diving birds 

Letters from Gondwana [15:49:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
The fossil record of Late Cretaceous–Paleogene modern birds in the Southern Hemisphere is fragmentary.  It includes Neogaeornis wetzeli from Maastrichtian beds of Chile, Polarornis gregorii and Vegavis [...]

Friday fold: Kink folds in Glacier National Park, part II 

Mountain Beltway [10:18:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
Over the summer, I treated you to a great big kink fold in the sedimentary rocks of Glacier National Park. Here’s another set: Did you see both of them in that first picture? – one bigger down below, one [...]

Expedition Explores Undersea Rift off Greece 

State of the Planet [03:00:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info
The Corinth rift is one of the most seismically active areas in Europe. Starting this month, researchers will drill into the rift to discover its past and

Linux - Cheap starlight surveillance camera working perfectly 

Ontario-geofish [12:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (6 visits) info
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I now have the camera working with Zoneminder.  I am extremely happy with it, since it is a very economical setup.  I had to use the powered ethernet right into the house for a proper bandwidth.  It's such [...]
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