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El Museo de Dinosaurios y el Demandafolk.
Conference on Sustainable Development Practice Sept. 17-18
The Global MDP Association and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network are hosting the 2nd Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development Practice at Columbia University in New York City on Sept. 17 andConservation student Kate Brugioni blows the lid off the restoration process for ancient Egyptian artifacts
Editor’s note: This fall some changes are coming to the HMNS Hall of Ancient Egypt. Some artifacts will leave and others are coming in on new loans. As we prepare for this, NYU third-year art [...]Chinese mosquitos on the Baltic Sea
Strange finds indeed have been reported by researchers from China, Europe and the USA in the journal "Current Biology": 50 million years ago, there were insects living in East Asia that [...]Richard Dawkins doesn’t speak for me…so, who does?
Small aftershock from Duncan quake
Research Summary: Shading as a Control Method for Invasive European Frogbit
European frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L.) is an invasive floating plant in North American water bodies. The species escaped in 1939 from a Botanical Garden in Ottawa, Canada and had reached[...] The post [...]The Rotulidae: Strangest of the Sand Dollars
GfGD in Tanzania (1) – Earth Sciences for Improving Livelihoods
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The East African country of Tanzania is a remarkable place, home to Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti, the Ngorongoro Crater and (for the volcanologists reading this) Ol Doinyo Lengai. It was also visits to [...]
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Heterophrentis prolifica from the Onondoga formation
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Devonian; US
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101 Geysers and More on Icy Saturn Moon
“Scientists using mission data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have identified 101 distinct geysers erupting on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Their analysis suggests it is possible for liquid [...]United Transboundary Tribal Mining Work Group to Hit BC Mines
A Balancing Act at Granville Island It was bound to happen–I just wondered when. With Pebble essentially down, attention now turns to new BC mines that may affect rivers that flow into Alaska. Here [...]thesis field problems
I found an old post here regarding field difficulties during the course of a PhD. Although my grad school research was not as extensive or long-term (just a MS, not a PhD), I too had a field-based project that [...]Chinesische Mücken an der Ostsee
Es ist ein merkwürdiger Befund, über den Forscher aus China, Europa und den USA in der Zeitschrift „Current Biology“ berichten: Vor 50 Millionen Jahren lebten im Osten Asiens ganz ähnliche [...]Investigating Water Quality and Arsenic in Bangladesh
Postcard from the Field: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory graduate student Rajib Mozumder, who works with Lamont scientists Lex van Geen and Ben Bostick, has spent part of his summer drilling water wells and [...]Exploring Ecology and History in Bermuda
I learned about the coral reef ecology course in Bermuda offered through the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability (EICES) at Columbia University after developing an interest in marine [...]Coming Soon: Matter of Sizes
Global Soil Week 2015
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The Call for Proposals is now open: Wann: 19. –
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Classification of igneous rocks revisited
Petrology, I must admit, was never my favourite subject even though I had to do quite a bit of it during my time as a student. Even my Honours project had a petrological component. An important tool for the [...]July 30, 2014
Tanzania: Major Producer of Natural Gas? FuelFix US Astronauts Train in Underwater Lab Voice of America OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet Energy Information Administration Algeria Oil and Gas Report Energy Information [...]A Thoughtful Message on a Tiny Slip of Paper
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Wildfire Smoke Makes Cool East Coast Temps Even Cooler
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In spite of an unusually dry and cool air mass over the eastern seaboard of the U.S. this afternoon, the sky is a milky white due to smoke from the wildfires in Western and far northern Canada. An even denser [...]
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