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Wednesday, 23 July 2014

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Deep-Sea Poop, Amoebas, Basket Stars, Pinwheel Crinoids and MORE! Pics from the NOAA Deep-sea Photo Archive! 

Echinoblog [06:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (721 visits) info
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Gulf of Alaska 2004 Expedition. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration  This week I have been researching images from deep-sea video on the home page for the NOAA Photo Library, which has housed ALL of the deep-sea and other imagery from NOAA's deep-sea expeditions since 2003, including those of the Okeanos Explorer! Many of you know that I have participated in the last two

Nature’s roadblock to hurricane prediction 

AGU Meetings [16:13:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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The quiet Atlantic hurricane season of 2013 came as a surprise to many, as seasonal forecasts had consistently predicted an unusually large crop of named storms. A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, finds that internal variability—processes that unfold without being dictated by larger-scale features—can make one season twice as active as another, even when El Niño and other large-scale hurricane-shaping [...]

Fieldwork should be safe and welcoming for all. Currently, it’s not. 

Highly Allochthonous [14:30:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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How prevalent is sexual harassment and assault during fieldwork? A paper in PLOS One that grapples with this question is getting some justified attention in the press and online at the moment, and the answer [...]

Oso landslide: the last set of remains been recovered and a new report has been released 

The Landslide Blog [11:51:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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Two key events happened yesterday in relation to the Oso landslide in Washington State - the remains of the last victim were recovered and a new report analysing the landslide was

Updated information on Askja volcano landslide 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [15:32:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
This is a short update on Askja volcano landslide. Travel ban is still in effect to Askja volcano. Parts of it are going to be lifted later today or tomorrow, but access to Askja lake is going to … [...]

blog regularity 

Accidental Remediation [02:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
I've been able to post more regularly for a while now, and I attribute that to a few specific changes: 1. Every time I have a thought for a blog post while working in the office, I write it on a post-it note. [...]

A Tale of Two Compys: What Jurassic Park got right — and wrong — about dino anatomy 

BEYONDbones [23:02:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
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 Jurassic
OMG I was such a dino-geek in college. I had other interests — I was enraptured by sculpture and took the fabled freshman History of Art course. The collage shown here was taped together during the lectures [...]

July 23, 2014 

Geology.com News [13:40:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
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Lake Mead Drops to Historic Low Levels Reuters How Bats Can Navigate in the Dark National Geographic Researchers Question Expansion of Antarctic Sea Ice Fringe New York Times Diesel from Coal, Natural Gas, and [...]

Bahama Carbonate Precipitation Triggered By Saharan Dust 

Reporting on a Revolution [08:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
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Interesting paper in Geology : The fertilization of the Bahamas by Saharan dust: A trigger for carbonate precipitation? - P.K. Swart, A.M. Oehlert, G.J. Mackenzie, G.P. Eberli and J.J.G. Reijmer Abstract The [...]

The Great Facebook Blizzard of 2014 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:55:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
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At the AMS Broadcast Meteorology conference last month in Lake Tahoe, I presented a talk about widespread rumors on Facebook last January that a paralyzing snowstorm was coming. This is just one example of the [...]

Open geoscience 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
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Not so long ago I was in a meeting with EGU’s young scientist representatives, who had gathered online to discuss the issues facing those early in their academic careers. One member of this dedicated team [...]

Throwback Thursday July 24, 2014 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:23:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info
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Happy Pioneer Day, geo friends! Start the day off with this great album of photos from the Library of Congress to complete your geology‪#‎throwbackthursday‬ ‪#‎tbt‬ View the album

Sobre la distribución de Neochelys en la 15 edición del congreso Gondwana 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
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Y vamos con otro de los trabajos que tienen que ver con la paleontología de vertebrados y que fue presentado en el congreso Gondwana 15. La intervención “On the debatable generic assignment of the African [...]

Für Kinder: Geheimnisvolle Mumien & archäologische Grabungen 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [10:45:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (54 visits) info
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Der Museumspark Kalkriese-Varusschlacht bietet abwechslungsreiches Ferienprogramm für Kinder an: Wo: Museumspark Kalkriese-Varusschlacht

Oil on Trains 

Energy Policy Blog [10:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (25 visits) info
The Department of Transportation is taking steps to address concerns about the safety of transporting oil by rail. The concern is fueled by several severe accidents in 2012 that caused deaths and damage as [...]

Call for day hiker volunteer sherpas- Monday orTuesday to Mount Baker base camp 

Northwest Geology Field Trips [18:03:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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 US
Originally posted on Mount Baker Volcano Research Center subscription website:Dear friends, photo from International Porters Protection Group http://ippg.net/ A MBVRC science team will head to Mount [...]

What Makes A Volcano Dangerous? People 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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smithsonianmag.com Most of the world’s volcanoes are located deep beneath the sea surface along the mid-ocean ridges where the Earth’s crust spread and creates new ocean floor. Volcanoes on land often [...]

All traffic to Askja volcano forbidden due to a large landside yesterday (22-July-2014) 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [02:03:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info
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According to Icelandic Meteorological Office, a large landslide fell yesterday (22-July-2014) around midnight in Askja volcano, the landslide did go into Askja lake creating a flood wave that was 100 to 200 [...]

Lake Ontario Project Aims to Pump Algae Away From Beachgoers 

Lake Scientist [17:34:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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For Lake Ontario beachgoers in Monroe County, New York, algae has been a recurring problem, according to the Democrat & Chronicle. So much so that Ontario Beach Park there can[...] The post Lake Ontario [...]

Bat-Pterodactyls 

History of Geology [20:15:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
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 Jurassic; DE,IT
Italian Cosimo Alessandro Collini (1727-1806), at the time chairman of the Cabinet of Curiosities of the principality of Pfalz (Germany), was the first naturalist to speculate about pterodactyls in 1784. [...]

New Indian Government Takes Promising Steps on Agiculture, Water and Climate 

State of the Planet [15:43:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
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 IN,GB
This is a guest post by Romit Sen and Kamal Vatta, Centers for International Projects Trust (CIPT). Riding high on a populist mandate but facing growing concerns of a slowdown in the economy and a rising [...]

Tracks Hint at the Social Life of Tyrant Dinosaurs 

Laelaps [23:01:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
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What’s scarier than a tyrannosaur? Three tyrannosaurs. That’s simple, undeniable math. The question is whether or not the

Icnitas de dinosaurio del Jurásico de Marruecos en Geogaceta 

DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [10:00:23]  recommend  1 recommendations  (68 visits) info
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 MA
El último número de la revista Geogaceta (55, junio 2014) publica un trabajo sobre icnitas de dinosaurio del Jurásico Inferior de Marruecos. Dibujos de algunas de las icnitas estudiadas. A: rastro e icnitas [...]

Oil companies believe that Oklahoma earthquake swarm is a natural variation. 

Ontario-geofish [23:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
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Article Funny that's exactly how I feel about global gorming, and I'm sure the oil companies are behind me on that! We just have to wait for OK.  My contention is that a huge mechanism is developing, just [...]

Disfraz dinosauriano para la Anthrocon 

Koprolitos [10:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
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Jennifer Miller, conocida como Nambroth en Tumblr, Twitter o DeviantArt), realizó este disfraz de terópodo para la última edición de la convención Anthrocon. Esta convención reúne a artistas, [...]

New news on Geosynthetics in Mining 

I think mining [22:04:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (57 visits) info
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Planning for the upcoming conference Geosynthetics Mining Solutions 2014 is well advanced. As the above news items attest, there is great interest in geosynthetics and this conference will focus on the use of [...]

Oil on Trains 

Energy Policy Blog [10:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (43 visits) info
The Department of Transportation is taking steps to address concerns about the safety of transporting oil by rail. The concern is fueled by several severe accidents in 2012 that caused deaths and damage as [...]
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