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Monday, 20 October 2014

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“Space Shuttle & ISS” – Der Solscape-Bildkalender 2015 

Solscape [23:58:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
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Es ist fast schon Tradition: auch dieses Jahr bietet Solscape wieder einen kostenlosen Kalender zum Download und Ausdrucken an.Der Bildkalender 2015 steht unter dem Motto “Space Shuttle & ISS”. Im Gegensatz zu den

Cohen: China’s Pollution Problems Mirroring U.S. Experience 

State of the Planet [23:50:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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 US,GB
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

Record Warm September Increases Odds that 2014 Will be Hottest on Record 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:15:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
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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 [...]

2nd IBERFAULT meeting in Lorca/Spain started 

Paleoseismicity [22:05:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (556 visits) info
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 ES
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 [...]

New technology uncovers hidden geological hazards 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [21:04:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Otro dinosaurio jurásico venezolano nuevo: Tachiraptor 

DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [18:42:24]  recommend  1 recommendations  (101 visits) info
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 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, [...]

De vuelta de las XXX Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [17:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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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 [...]

Tutorial 29: how to choose a title for your paper 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [15:18:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (69 visits) info
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 [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Fresh breakout in the lava fields 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:30:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Free Global Soil Grids at 1km resolution 

Digital Geography [11:53:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
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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 [...]

Eopengornis e la risoluzione di Enantiornithes 

Theropoda [10:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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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 [...]

Las muñecas de los terópodos 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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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 [...]

2015 AEG Shlemon Specialty Conference – “Time to Face the Landslide Hazard Dilemma: Bridging Science, Policy, Public Safety, and Potential Loss” 

The Landslide Blog [08:48:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (841 visits) info
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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, [...]

October 20, 2014 

Geology.com News [08:10:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Küchengeologie 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [07:54:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (66 visits) info
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Zwei Experimente für die Küche, um Kindern zu erklären: Wie

New Brian Cox Series Human Universe on BBC Two is Excellent. Will it air in America? 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:53:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
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 GB,US
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 [...]

Up to 80 mile an hour wind gusts possible from ex-hurricane Gonzalo 

Climate and Geohazards [22:47:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
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 BM,
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 [...]

Large Cretaceous Marine Reptile Bone Showing Bite Marks 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [22:05:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US
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 [...]

Moab celebrates National Fossil Day with first Dinosaur Festival 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [19:18:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Watch Your Step: the Alpha Predator of the Ordovician 

State of the Planet [18:00:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
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 Ordovician; CO
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

Ocean heat storage: a particularly lousy policy target 

Real Climate [15:45:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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 FR
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. [...]

Excellent Video About the Alpine Fault 

Geology.com News [14:39:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
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 NZ
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 [...]

Dragon Tongues 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [12:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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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 vs. pgAdmin III – a small speed-test 

Digital Geography [10:54:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
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 [...]

Monday Geology Picture(s): Geological Sampling on the Moon 

Georneys [10:00:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Sphaerirhyncia wilsoni brachiopod from the Wenlock formation 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info
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 Devonian,Silurian; US
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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 [...]

Sauropod 

Koprolitos [08:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
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 AU
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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 [...]

Alumnus profile #6 – Dr Sam Engwell 

Between a Rock and a Hard Place [08:00:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (286 visits) info
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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 [...]

Hiking Into Grand Gulch Utah - Cedar Mesa Sandstone and Ruins 

Earthly Musings [02:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (673 visits) info
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 Permian,Jurassic; IT,PT,HU,AR,US,ES
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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 [...]
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