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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 … [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reporting on a Revolution [08:36:00]
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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
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Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:55:23]
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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 [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:17]
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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 [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:23:51]
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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
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:00:00]
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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 [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [10:45:05]
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Der Museumspark Kalkriese-Varusschlacht bietet abwechslungsreiches Ferienprogramm für Kinder an: Wo: Museumspark Kalkriese-Varusschlacht
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 [...]
Northwest Geology Field Trips [18:03:17]
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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 [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [00:54:00]
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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 [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [02:03:08]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
What’s scarier than a tyrannosaur? Three tyrannosaurs. That’s simple, undeniable math. The question is whether or not the
DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [10:00:23]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]