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Friday, 02 January 2015
AGU 2014 and EarthScope Town Hall
The American Geophysical Union Fall 2014 meeting came and went. It is quite a taxing meeting. But, I saw some old friends and many colleagues. A highlight was running the EarthScope Town Hall. Our agenda was:EarthScope overview, science achievements, and status (Arrowsmith)Update from the National Science Foundation (Benoit)Plate Boundary Observatory Futures workshop report (James Foster)IRIS Science workshop report and Transportable Array update (Central Eastern US network and Alaska [...]Celestial Music
Did you ever watch stars, and hear distant singing? New telescopes see that the galaxy’s ringing! Listen now carefully, open your ears To Johannes Kepler’s great “music of spheres.” Celestial music, slight changes in brightness, Give star-gazers feelings of joy and of lightness, But even more thrilling is what we are learning, LikeWhat’s up? The Friday links (65)
New year, new links, same weekday! Despite many geobloggers are still in their season breaks, today is still Friday, so here are your links! The departed holiday season has marked the 10th anniversary of the [...]Research Summary: Effect Of Deforestation On Global Wetland Hydrology
1School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Humans have been clearing forest for thousands of years to prepare the landscape for settlement and [...]Friday folds: Cabbage Island, Maine
Devonian metamorphic rocks (garnet-bearing gneiss) exposed on the western side of Cabbage Island, Maine: And here it is in GigaPan form:The best of Imaggeo in 2014: in pictures.
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AT,IT,US,CN,SI,,IS
From the rifting of the African continent, to mighty waterfalls in Slovenia, through to a bird’s eye view of the Glarus Thurst in the Alps, images from Imaggeo, the EGU’s open access geosciences image [...]
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Triceramallows
2014: Our Year Without a Freezing Temperature
Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: An encrusted scallop from the Pliocene of Cyprus
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Neogene; CY
One of the very best paleontological sites I had the pleasure of collecting was on the hot Mesaoria Plain near the center of the island of Cyprus. It was the summer of 1996 and Steve Dornbos (’97) and I [...]
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Transfer to a new faster server
Please note that a transfer to a new and faster server is going to take place soon. I am working out few details on that transfer before it happens. The transfer is going to take up to 48 … Continue [...]A few of the Arizona geology stories of 2014
Metamorphic petrology under stress: round 2
Back in August I wrote about an extremely important paper by John Wheeler of Liverpool University called “Dramatic effects of stress on metamorphic reactions”. This uses a theoretical approach to [...]Constituido el comité asesor del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Un nuevo cocodrilo del Maastrichtiense de los Pirineos
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Cretaceous; PT,ES,RO,,AR
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Earthquakes at both ends of the Cascadia Basin
Trace fossils from near Avoca NY
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Devonian; US
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National Geothermal Data System spun off in new non-profit company
This Green and Snowy Sceptered Isle
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GB
The UK had a pretty good snow event last week after Christmas, and NASA released this true colour image from the MODIS sensor on the Aqua satellite. Click for the full 5 megabyte high resolution version. You [...]
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New Frog Species Reproduces Like No Other
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