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Saturday, 22 February 2014

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Is Science Dead? In my town, a resounding "NO"! 

Geotripper [23:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (43 visits) info
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Science is in trouble, they say. Kids just aren't interested in science careers, and schools hardly teach it anyway. And in the poorer parts of the country, the problems are even worse. No one cares anymore. I beg to differ. I teach in one of the poorer parts of California, a town and county that has suffered depression-level unemployment levels even during the "good times" prior to

INSPIRE conference wants your ideas and works 

Digital Geography [21:34:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
Aalborg in Denmark will be a place to be in the middle of June as INSPIRE rocks the city. The initiative “Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community” commonly known as INSPIRE will have their annual meeting/conference in the northern part of Denmark. View Larger Map Since 2007 the INSPIRE initiative have this kind […]The post INSPIRE conference wants your ideas and works appeared first on

Some days there's beauty everywhere 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [21:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (30 visits) info
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Cattails on right, dogtail on left.Why did I take photos this morning?  Because I could.  There was no wind beyond a slight breeze, and it was possible to photograph inanimate objects and even [...]

Two minor earthquakes detected with my geophone network 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [17:58:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (47 visits) info
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It does not happen often. But I do detect earthquakes sometimes that Icelandic Meteorological Office does not detect on it’s network. The reason for that is simple. This earthquakes are too small to be [...]

Pleurodictyum styloporum coral from the Mahantango formation 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (626 visits) info
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 Devonian; US
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I've blogged about Pleurodictyum fossils from the Mahantango Formation before, in this post, but this specimen that I recently found is kind of neat. It's a pair of Pleuordictyum styloporum colonies where [...]

Two million Evangelical scientists in the U.S. 

The GeoChristian [07:25:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (59 visits) info
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Are science and Christianity incompatible? If you asked this question to any one of the millions of Christians who work as scientists in the United States, the answer would be a confident “No.” [...]

Christchurch City Centre, Three Years On 

Julian\'s Blog [05:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info
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Some images I took this morning, on an early walk through Christchurch City Centre.  I offer my  best wishes to the folk of Christchurch and other Canterbury towns who are still patiently rebuilding [...]

Waiting on weather 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [03:03:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
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Having many years ago been on cruises in the North Atlantic, in some pretty awful weather offshore Greenland in particular, it never occurred to me [...]

Mining Truck Drivers, Fly-in, Fly-out Camps, and Brandy Deprivation 

I think mining [00:18:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (50 visits) info

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Here from an Australian mining site, a piece that is funny, sad, and downright wrong all at the same time.  The author has some writing skills, but no insight or factual skills. What would you do for [...]

QGIS 2.2 is coming. Be prepared! 

Digital Geography [20:06:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
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The undercover GIS queen “Underdark” a.k.a. Anita Graser came up with this headline today and we had seen some little insight in the upcoming QGIS release already. So it is in the OSGeo4W installer [...]

22 February: Dispatch from Hyderabad – 2014 GSA Distinguished International Lecture Tour 

Speaking of Geoscience [17:35:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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2/22/14 In Hyderabad in southern India, I gave two talks to students and research scientists at the NGRI- National Geophysical Institute of India, one of India’s major research centers in multidisciplinary [...]

Mount La Perouse: Sunday’s rock avalanche has been found 

The Landslide Blog [08:00:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (60 visits) info
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Helicopter pilot Drake Olson has found the rock avalanche that occurred in Alaska on Sunday. It is on the flank of Mount La

BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk 

James’ Empty Blog [06:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (59 visits) info
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environmental secrets 

Accidental Remediation [03:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (45 visits) info
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So there was a question regarding corporate secrets and the environment in a comment on the last post. These days, environmental contamination is just another risk to be managed. The big firms that are likely [...]

Channeling the tide... 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [00:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (53 visits) info
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Those of its inhabitants who had succeeded in surviving would find themselves at last face to face with the relentlessness of a scarcity of water constantly growing greater, till at last they would all die of [...]
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