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Friday, 08 August 2014
This Is Why Canada and The West Are Burning
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:45:49]
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US,CA,
NASA posted this map of the temperature anomalies over North America for July, and you can easily see why we there is so much wildfire activity in the U.S. West and Canada North. This is why dense smoke is travelling thousands of miles to the Eastern Seaboard. The heat out west has now pushed much of California into Exceptional Drought”
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There be rocks down there!
At the back end of my last shift, a core came up with very little recovery. This is always suspicious, because marine sediments core easily with recoveries better than 80% nearly all the time. readMPA Alum Focuses on Energy Planning and Compliance
MPA in Environmental Science and Policy alum, Joseph Daniel ('12), is using the skills he developed in the program to give insight into the issues his clients at Synapse Energy Economics are struggling with in [...]Horticulturalist Zac Stayton bids a fond farewell to HMNS
Editor’s Note: After four and a half years, Zac Stayton, Horticulturist for the Cockrell Butterfly Center, is leaving HMNS for a new job as a Project Manager for the grower Color Spot. I sat down with [...]A Summit for Young Climate Leaders
We created CliMates in 2011. Our dream was to find new ways for youth worldwide to work together on climate change. In less than a year, CliMates grew into a network of several hundred students and young [...]Bird Brain
A pigeon's got cells in its brain That link up with its inner ear. Despite any wind, fog, or rain, These talented birds, they canA much shorter review of flood stratigraphies in lake sediments
Earlier this year my PhD supervisors and I (Daniel) had a paper accepted for publication in Earth-Science Reviews entitled ‘Flood stratigraphies in lake sediments: A review’ (Schillereff et al., 2014). [...]GeoTalk: Matthew Agius on how online communication can help identify earthquake impact
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:47]
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In this edition of GeoTalk, we’re talking to Matthew Agius, a seismologist from the University of Malta and the Young Scientist Representative for the EGU’s Seismology Division. Matthew gave an [...]
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Hawaii prepares for its first hurricane in 22 years
Renewables are Booming Too
Those of us in the petroleum industry have been tracking the rapid expansion of oil and gas production from shales and in the process we may not have noticed the rapid expansion of renewable energy, especially [...]August 8, 2014
Scenes from Vermilion Cliffs USA.gov Utah Oil to California by Rail Bloomberg Mercury in World Oceans National Science Foundation Rosetta Reaches Comet 10 Years After Leaving Earth The Telegraph Explore All [...]Natural Gas Pipeline Exports to Mexico
“U.S. natural gas exports to Mexico reached a record high of 2.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) on July 24, averaging 2.3 Bcf/d from June through August and more than doubling since 2010.” [...]Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An Early Cretaceous cobble-dwelling bryozoan
Wooster Geologists [07:01:17]
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Cretaceous; GB
One of my formative experiences as a young paleontologist was working in the Faringdon Sponge Gravels (Lower Cretaceous, Upper Aptian) of south-central England while on my first research leave in 1985. (I was [...]
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Mt Polley: The Search for Guilty Parties (A Scapegoat?)
Standard accident theory tells us that an accident occurs when many small incidents or omissions line up. It is like a pile of Swiss cheese with hole in it: inevitably a pile of cheese with hole in it will [...]Glad You Asked: August 7, 2014
As we find ourselves in another hot Utah summer, some of you may be wondering where the coolest spot in Utah is. Among all the cool places in Utah, the coolest by far is Peter Sinks. High in the Bear River [...]Grand Canyon is theme of national Geologic Map Day
[jules' pics] High Street
Decided to go shopping so yesterday we headed for the High Street near Ullswater in Cumbria. Getting there was a bit harder than expected, as there was no railway station, and it involved a 700m climb from [...]Arrival in Arusha Tanzania!
Il mistero del Granito II - La nascita delle Rocce Ignee
Storia della Geologia [17:27:00]
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Worried about Speaking in Public? Try Toastmasters. Really.
That's right, Toastmasters, the outfit with the retro name that seems to promise insurance salesmen who shake your hand too hard, like that guy in the movie Groundhog Day who keeps pestering Bill Murray. [...]Friday fold: Buckle vs. passive folding in the Chancellor Group slates
The Friday fold is an outcrop in Yoho National Park that showcases differences between buckle folding and passiveGeschiebegarten
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [11:58:52]
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Das Waldhaus Potsdam in den Ravensbergen bietet: Geschiebegarten & -ausstellung
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(107 visits) Una nueva especie de Pliosaurus del Jurásico Superior de Argentina
DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [10:00:56]
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El último número de la revista Ameghiniana (51/4, agosto 2014) publica la descripción de una nueva especie del reptil marino Pliosaurus procedente de Argentina. Algunos de los restos craneales de Pliosaurus [...]
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Renewables are Booming Too
Those of us in the petroleum industry have been tracking the rapid expansion of oil and gas production from shales and in the process we may not have noticed the rapid expansion of renewable energy, [...]USGS Releases New Topos for Arkansas and South Carolina
Newly designed USGS topo maps covering Arkansas and South Carolina are now available online for free download in PDF format. Go to the Map DownloadLos dinosaurios en la habitación de Jack Spellman
Acervularia truncata coral fossil
Louisville Area Fossils [07:00:00]
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Silurian; IT
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Syringopora-sp and Favosites sp colonial coral fossils
Louisville Area Fossils [02:30:00]
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Silurian; IT,US,SE
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An Emflume1 off to Switzerland!
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