China’s problems with air pollution mirror what the United States went through during the rapid economic growth following World War II, and the solutions will likely be the same, Earth Institute Executive Director Steven Cohen said Saturday on an English-language news program on China Central
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:15:55]
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From NOAA. From NOAA. NOAA announced today that both August and September were the hottest globally since reliable instrument records began in the 1880′s. From NOAA: Global Highlights The combined [...]
Second meeting on Active Faults and Paleoseismology in two weeks, so I am on the road again. Today, the 2nd Iberfault meeting in Lorca/Murcia/Spain starts focussing on A multidisciplinary approach to the study [...]
A couple of our geologists, Gregg Beukelman and Adam McKean, talks about new knowledge of fault lines west of Salt Lake International Airport thanks to advances in technology. Read more about it! ksl.com [...]
DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [18:42:24]
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(101 visits) category→science_technology VE,AR
Hace dos meses tuvo mucha repercusión mediática la publicación del primer dinosaurio descrito en Venezuela: Laquintasaura (véase DinoAstur, 14-8-2004). Ahora, un segundo dinosaurio del mismo yacimiento, [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [17:44:00]
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Durante la semana pasada, desde el miércoles 15 hasta el sábado 18 de Octubre, tuvieron lugar en Teruel las XXX Jornadas de Paleontología, organizadas por la (valga la redundancia) Sociedad Española de [...]
Over on his (excellent) Better Posters blog, Zen Faulks has been critiquing a poster on affective feedback. The full title of the poster is “Studying the effects of affective feedback in embodied [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:41]
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Kate Dobson was a volunteer at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory (HVO) in 2001/02 and revisited the stunning Big Island in 2006. During her holidays Kate ventured out to the coastal section of the Pu’uO’o [...]
I would like to introduce you the newly global coverage of soils grid at 1km ground resolution (online since August 29th 2014). The dataset is funded and provided by ISRIC. What attributes does the data [...]
Wang et al. (2014) descrivono un nuovo enantiornithe dalla Formazione Huajiying, la più antica del Biota Jehol, ed istituiscono Eopengornis martini. Assieme a Protopteryx, questo è il più antico [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:07:00]
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Las diferencias entre los huesos de la muñeca de aves actuales y terópodos no aviarios suponían uno de los argumentos más utilizados para negar el origen dinosauriano de las aves ya que los terópodos más [...]
The 2015 Shlemon Specialty Conference, organised by the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, is entitled "Time to Face the Landslide Hazard Dilemma: Bridging Science, Policy, Public Safety, [...]
Geoscience Workforce Shortage ?American Geosciences Institute The Brightest PulsarNASA Geologic Hazards in ColoradoColorado Geological Survey Keystone XL Now Irrelevant ?Politico Think Your State Doesn’t [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [07:54:40]
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Zwei Experimente für die Küche, um Kindern zu erklären: Wie
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:53:38]
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I was in the UK on holiday last week, and caught two episodes of Professor Brian Cox’s new series Human Universe on BBC Two. Once again, Cox was superb, and the BBC have shown that no one on the planet [...]
Climate and Geohazards [22:47:06]
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The remains of hurricane Gonzalo is due to strike the British Isles tonight resulting in widespread rainfall and wind gusts up to 80 miles an hour tomorrow morning. Gonzalo travelled over the island of Bermuda [...]
Dinosaur Home - Blogs [22:05:18]
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This bone was found in Shoal creek Austin TX which has been dated 100-106 million years ago. This creek always astonishes me for what I am blessed to find. Every hole on this bone is a bite mark. I think it [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:18:54]
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moabtimes.com Dozens of adults and kids gathered on the lawn adjacent to the Museum of Moab last Friday afternoon, Oct. 10, to celebrate “National Fossil Day” during the first Moab Dinosaur Festival. READ [...]
State of the Planet [18:00:25]
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Frozen into the stone floor of a stairway landing, several flights up in Columbia’s Lewisohn Hall, sits a stark reminder of how life has evolved in the sea. Part 6 of the Columbia Geology
The New York Times, 12 December 2027: After 12 years of debate and negotiation, kicked off in Paris in 2015, world leaders have finally agreed to ditch the goal of limiting global warming to below 2 °C. [...]
Scientists are drilling more than a kilometre down into the plate boundary fault in New Zealand’s South Island. The Alpine Fault is considered to be at high risk of producing a big earthquake in the next [...]
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [12:00:00]
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I recently had the pleasure of being commissioned to create a new logo for the Dragon Tongues podcast, and since I'll take any opportunity to share relevant work from my livelihood at LITC, here it is.Dragon [...]
HeidiSQL, a free database-client, now supports PostgreSQL/PostGIS in the newest nightly builds. Using HeidiSQL with MySQL was always a pleasure and I often had the feeling that the pgAdmin III client of [...]
If you think that regular geological field work and sampling can be challenging, try doing those tasks in a spacesuit. During my recent (June 2014) trip to Washington, DC, I visited the Smithsonian Air and [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(129 visits) category→science_technology Devonian,Silurian; US
I'm kicking off a series of posts featuring brachiopods from the classic Wenlock formation of England with Sphaerirhyncia wilsoni.This brachiopod has a rounded shell with a shallow but wide sulcus. Ribbing is [...]
Michael Bancroft, ilustrador de Melbourne (Australia) quería emular con este diseño para Threadless los típicos grabados de los naturalistas del siglo XIX, pero... con la fauna de la Tierra Media. Si esta [...]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place [08:00:15]
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Dr Sam Engwell Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, INGV PhD title “Dynamics and Deposits of Large Explosive Eruptions” 1) The Twitter Challenge: Describe your PhD in 140 characters [...]
Earthly Musings [02:34:00]
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Many of you will remember a hike I completed last October in southern Utah (link here). This year, a similar group of friends went into Grand Gulch, a marvelous little canyon located on Cedar Mesa. You can [...]