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Friday, 26 September 2014
California Governor Signs Bill Regulating Oil by Rail
On September 25, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that will provide California’s emergency responders with more information about trains carrying crude oil and require railroad companies to provide more information about potentially hazardous cargo to the state’s Office of Emergency Services (“OES”). In summary, Assembly Bill 380 requires: a rail carrier to prospectively … ContinueFriday update on Bárðarbunga volcano 26-September-2014
This is the Friday 26-September-2014 update on Bárðarbunga volcano. This information is going to get outdated quickly. Current status in Bárðarbunga volcano at 20:36 UTC Largest earthquake today had the magnitude 5,2, it happened at 16:49 UTC. Second … Continue readingChanges in hyporheic exchange and subsurface processes following stream restoration
The Watershed Hydrology lab will be out in force for the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Vancouver in October. Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing the abstracts of the work we are [...]Free climate science / modeling class beginning Sept. 29
Global Warming: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change is a free online adaptation of a college-level class for non-science majors at the University of Chicago (textbook, video lectures). The class [...]Physician Paracelsus and early Medical Geology
Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), better known as Paracelsus, is considered one of the most important mystics and physicians of all times. Some myths even claim he got his [...]Survey: Stratigraphic Data Workflows
Dear Readers! At the moment I am working on my master thesis with the focus on stratigraphic data workflows. I have the impression that there is a lot of potential for improvement in the whole process. [...]Overview: Newest developments from ESRI
At this years 11th geoforum of central Germany ESRI showed some new developments in their ArcGIS online portfolio. Those were published 23rd of September. Let me please introduce you to some of these features. [...]Aureococcus
On skin, it’s barely a freckle I’d make, But baby, en masse, we turn seas opaque! Come darkness, come famine, come poison or flood, My kind can flourish in any old crud. I may be a [...]Friday fold: passively folded marble
It’s Friday! Here’s Baxter, last Friday, in Athens, Greece. He’s checking out some folds in the marble that’s everywhere in that city: This is a lovely example of passive folding, where [...]Engineering Connections for Climate Change
I’ve been thinking a lot about connections. About how we construct them between other humans, about what that means, and about why it’s so difficult to engineer any kind of meaningful connection [...]Friday Photo (129) – Annual Conference
GfGD Annual Conference 2014 A selection of photographs taken from the GfGD Annual Conference, hosted and supported by the Geological Society of London. The event focused on the skills required to make a [...]Gigatron - Rollo Primitivo
Naturstein hautnah erfühlen
Ein Bodenbelag, der zum Leben da ist Teppiche, Fußläufer und Co. sind bei Natursteinbodenbesitzern unserer Erfahrung nach rar. Wenn wundert’s? Naturstein-Fliesen sind traumhaft schön und die [...]BlueSkiesResearch.org.uk: The future of climate science
The future of climate science Posted: 24 Sep 2014 09:08 AM PDT I recently had the pleasure of a trip to Brussels, courtesy of this workshop, organised by Michel Crucifix, Valerio Lucarini and Stéphane [...]Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A crinoid calyx from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio
This week’s contribution from the Wooster collections will be short. If all is going well, as this is posted I’m on my way to the Fourth International Palaeontological Congress in Mendoza, [...]Tmetoceras Ammonite Fossil
12 Signs You Should Boogy Boogy Shooby Sho Wap Over to HMNS for our Grease Sing-a-Long Friday
We’re having a Grease sing-a-long in the Wortham Giant Screen Theatre Friday September 26! Come down to HMNS and see all your friends from Rydell High once more on the giant screen! Here are twelve [...]Throwback Thursday September 25, 2014: Devil’s Slide
How many are familiar with Devil’s Slide in Weber Canyon, near Morgan, UT? Do you think you’d ever slide down like you were in a playground? For this#tbt, we’re giving you an article that [...]freezing samples
A comment on this post reminded me of an occasional problem with managing environmental samples: getting them too cold. I have two "war stories" about freezing samples: 1. I was working on an [...]Further adventures in Russian: The Atlas of Dinosaurs, part 1
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Prehistory/the Ecosystem/the Climate/the Animals That Inhabited These Harsh Times………
Now, I shall add much more detail on this concept as I go but for now I just wanted to make this nice, AWESOME, and simple……. Dawn of time itself/known as the Big Bang This took place all the [...]How Dinosaurs Set Up an Avian Explosion
If you were to take a stroll through the Late Jurassic forest, roundabout 150 million years ago, youMPA Alum Focuses on Marine Conservation
Olivia Kemp, a 2013 alumna of the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program, is using the skills she developed in the program to develop her career focusing on conservation, food security and sustainable [...]Ausstellung: Dinosaurier – die Urzeit lebt!
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Die Dinos kommen zurück nach Münster: Ab: 26.09.2014 Wo: Naturkundemuseum Münster/Westfalen
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(647 visits) The Politics of Fracking: Polarization in New York State
On September 18, 2014, the Earth Institute hosted Tanya Heikkila and Chris Weible of the University of Colorado Denver for a seminar on ‘The Political Landscape of Shale Gas Development and Hydraulic [...]Does Deinonychus really have one of the most powerful bites of all dinosaurs?
GeoEd: Under review
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In this month’s GeoEd column, Sam Illingworth tells us about how teaching undergraduate students about peer review can help eliminate bad practice. To anybody other than a researcher, the words peer [...]
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Friday 26th September 2014 In 2010 a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Haiti killed over 100,000 people. In the same year another magnitude 7.1 earthquake in New Zealand killed nobodyIkrandraco avatar y la influencia del imaginario de ficción en los taxones descritos por paleontólogos
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September 26, 2014
Geologic Map Day United States Geological Survey Kilauea Status Reports United States Geological Survey How Much Carbon is Leaving Thawing Soil ? NASA Antifreeze Proteins in Antarctic Fish National Science [...]Saharan Dust Storm Below Towering Thunderstorms
Here are the particulars of the image, and what you are seeing from NASA Earth Observatory: More dust blows out of the Sahara Desert and into the atmosphere than from any other desert in the world, and more [...]Dead Rat Journalism, and The Ethics of Communicating Scientific Uncertainty
I spent all day Monday (and part of Tuesday) at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, attending a seminar on the ethics of communicating scientific uncertainty. It was hosted [...]Alaska earthquake M6.2
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