A Lisbon Structural Geologist [04:13:00]
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I am for the first time attending to the AGU meeting (SF, CA). I confess I’m a bit surprise to say that I’m really enjoying it. In these kind of mega meetings like the EGU (which I’ve attended several times before) there’s sometimes a tendency for some dispersion, and one often leaves the meeting with a sensation of not having taking the most out of it, spending a lot of time on a variety of subjects rather than concentrating on whatever specific research subject one is pursuing.However [...]
Located about 25 miles north of Houston, Mueschke Cemetery is a historical burial ground. With its oldest headstone dating back to 1849, the cemetery is the resting place for close to 150 people, many of them [...]
polar soils blog [19:20:00]
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Now that we’ve collected soil samples, we need to extract and identify the organisms living in the soil. We also need to measure the chemistry of the soil to understand the organisms’ habitat. For the past [...]
AGU Meetings [18:03:10]
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(187 visits) category→science_technology Paleogene,Cretaceous; MX
The asteroid that smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula a little more than 66 million years ago left behind the Chicxulub crater, but it also left behind something else: iridium, a rare element, which settled in [...]
That’s the view from Woodstock Tower, on the crest of Three Top Mountain, looking east/northeast across the Little Fort Valley and through Mine Gap (a water gap), across the main Fort Valley and then [...]
In our latest paper, just published, we have mapped and analysed landslides triggered by the 2010 earthquake in the Sierra Cucapah range in
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [04:19:00]
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In my day (and night and weekend) job as a freelance designer and illustrator, I recently was hired to do some advertising illustrations in a pixel art style, emulating the look of 8-bit video game graphics. [...]
I don’t spend all my time out among Oakland’s rocks. I also take advantage of the Bay area’s opportunities to learn about Earth science. Every year, for instance, I attend the Fall Meeting of [...]
I give it a 1% because Big Bruce Guy (I'll build a nuclear plant anywhere) has bought a house near Darlington. It all hinges on how much he'll soak the Liberals for. If I were him I'd buy a house for odds [...]
From Wikipedia.. they are GREAT! Go give them some money!
Today.. a short instructional on tropical "cushion stars" which is a common name I HATE because it just describes so many different types [...]
Wann unsere Musterschauen geöffnet sind Zwischen Plätzchenbacken, Christbaum und Silvesterfeuerwerk: Die Tage zwischen Weihnachten und Silvester verbringen die meisten mit ihren Liebsten. „Wir [...]
DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [09:00:00]
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El último número de la revista Volumina Jurassica (12/2) incluye varios trabajos sobre restos de dinosaurios del Jurásico de Estados Unidos. En uno de ellos (Dalman, 2014) se crea un nuevo género de [...]
The Northern Hemisphere suddenly cooled about 12,800 years ago in an event named the Younger Dryas. Scientists have debated the cause for many years. One widely-believed explanation is that the massive but [...]
Magma Cum Laude [22:06:05]
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Tuesday I spent most of my time in the poster hall - a full day on my feet, in fact, which I'm regretting slightly today. In the morning I was learning about fluids and mineralization in hydrothermal systems [...]
Koprolitos [09:00:00]
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(121 visits) category→science_technology Jurassic; US
El trailer de Jurassic World está dejando un rastro de productos relacionados que roza la locura. En este caso, traemos un nuevo diseño de camiseta inspirado en la escena de Chris Pratt en moto rodeado de [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [08:32:05]
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wird geschlossen: PortalU – das Umweltportal Deutschlands wird Ende 2014
I get something like this every year, I don't know why.
Dear Person, I am saddened to hear of the death of my non-existent relatives. Perhaps they will join all my other non-existent relatives in [...]
Russia, Denmark (through Greenland) and Canada all claim
that their territories extend to the North Pole. This is despite the fact that
the Pole is well over 400 miles from the shores of any Arctic country. [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(198 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; MA
I've been wanting to get some Devonian fossils from Morocco that were not trilobites for some time now. My thought was that they had to exist out there in the desert but that they weree just being overlooked [...]
In both the academic world and the consulting business, many of us chase after big pots of money - the sort of money that would fund an entire research program or keep an office employed for years. Sometimes [...]
Continuing the report on my general first impressions on the AGU2014 meeting, one really annoying thing is the poor quality of the Internet access in most sites, but especially on the Marriott Marquis [...]
Really good discussion in yesterday’s evening Tectonophysics poster session! Among several points of interest, I met a young PhD student from Montpellier who is doing both fieldwork and numerical modeling in [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:29:39]
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NASA’s Suomi Satellite has an amazing sensor that can see the Earth at night very well. The pics below are a comparison of normal city lights from space, and the green shows the added lights from all the [...]
So today, I decided to make a dinosaur tournament with 16 dinosaurs.
I want you to choose who you think has the cooler name out of the dinosaurs below.
Prosaurolophus VS Zhuchengosaurus
Rhinorex VS [...]
Most lightning hits as a short-lived luminosity, a flickering flash in the pan. Other lightning lingers 10 to 100 times as long. It can simmer the sap of an entire tree and spark a dangerous forest fire. Now, [...]
Geological Society of London blog [11:14:19]
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In my final geocrafting blog post for the advent calendar, I thought I’d bring you a pioneering geologist and #trowelblazer, often called ‘the greatest fossil hunter ever known‘: Mary Anning. [...]
A NASA team utilized satellite data to create a map of past volcanic deposits and modeled the risk to nearby towns. They found one town on a potential lava flow path and a second town at risk for mud flows. [...]
Northwest Geology Field Trips [17:21:55]
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An opportunity for citiizen volunteers to assist with USGS river and storm surge monitoring From Eric E. Grossman, PhD, Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey Hi, As part of our USGS Coastal Habitats in [...]
@UNSDSN is hosting a live Twitter Q&A on Friday, Dec. 19, from 1-2 p.m. EST with Jim Williams, chief scientist at Energy and Environmental Economics Inc. and lead author on the U.S. Deep Decarbonization [...]
Geology.com News [07:10:41]
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Fogo Erupts and Destroys Two Cape Verde VillagesSky.com Photos, Videos: Eruptions at Fogo VolcanoPhotovolcanica.com A Large, Restless, Rhyolitic Magma System in the Southern AndesGSA Today Will Cheap Oil Kill [...]
Editor’s note: This post was created by HMNS Concierge and Discovery Guide Corey Green. Our good friend Einstein came to visit the museum and went through many of our exhibit halls. Can you name [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:00:30]
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Nick Dunstone, the winner of a 2014 EGU Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award, who studies the Earth’s climate and atmosphere, including how they are impacted by natural variation and anthropogenic [...]
To walruses, ice means life. It’s their home base, their mating ground, and their transportation. As climate change threatens the extent of ocean ice, a new study takes a first step at determining how [...]
Scientists have created a computer system that will help predict malaria outbreaks in northwestern Ethiopia. The advance warning system, which uses local epidemiological information and real-time environmental [...]
Russia, Denmark (through Greenland) and Canada all claim
that their territories extend to the North Pole. This is despite the fact that
the Pole is well over 400 miles from the shores of any Arctic country. [...]