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Friday, 06 March 2015
too much review/little review?
I was reading a simple long-term monitoring report by another consultant, and the level of review/non-review was...odd. I don't expect much from a long-term monitoring report. It's a lot of boilerplate and "yep, nothing much is changing, just like the last 17 reports", and that's fine. But I came across a report that was decorated with four review signatures, including signatures ofTrue Color View from NASA of a Snowy Northeast
This is from the NASA Terra Satellite today March 6, 2015. Click for a size large enough to print.El Museo de Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos) celebra el Día Internacional de la Mujer
Teaching remote sensing concepts and methods with Emriver Modeling Media
Leigh Delamere site - worth a visit
Mesofauna-Treffen 2015
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [14:10:48]
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Der Arbeitskreis Mesofauna: Wann: 29./30.09.2015 Wo: Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde,
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Friday fold: Mazatzal Orogeny, Arizona
Reader Mike Pendergrass contributes this Friday’s fold: I found your blog a couple years ago and I share your love of structural geology. I did my Master’s Thesis while at Northern Arizona [...]Help us assemble all of the museum abbreviations
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [12:23:22]
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We have a new page on the sidebar – here – where we’re collecting as many museum abbreviations as possible, the idea being that you can copy and paste them into your papers to rapidly [...]
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Introducing our new DRR Blog Columnist…
Geology for Global Development [10:00:47]
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A significant way that geologists contribute to international development is through their work on natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions) and subsequent contribution to disaster [...]
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Las despampanantes amazonas prehistóricas de Alexey Lipatov
Women in Geoblogging IV: People-Snatching Pterosaurs! Fossils! Argo Floats! Plus #SciArt!
I’ve got more Women in the Geoblogosphere goodness for ye today, my darlings! Settle in for science! Musings of a Clumsy Paleontologist by Gimpasaura Gimpasaura is getting her paleontology PhD,... -- [...]Pristeroceras timidum cephalopod from the Bertie Formation
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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Silurian
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Boden beeinflusst Klima
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Drei Vorträge am Geologischen Dienst NRW stellen die Zusammenhänge zwischen
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Darwin Day resolution introduced in Arizona legislature
Trichodesmium is Everywhere!
We have completed the first two stations of the OUTPACE cruise and we are steaming to Station 3. By noon tomorrow we should be in the center of an eddy that our colleagues back on dry land have used satellite [...]Basilosaurus the Bone-Crusher
Bite force is all the rage lately. This year alone paleontologists have published new bite force estimates forLa semana fantástica de Concavenator
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [19:39:00]
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Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development
By: Nadine Fattaleh Every year, the Clinton Global Initiative, in partnership with the Hult Business School, organizes a social entrepreneurship start-up competition challenging students to address the [...]Back on a Sometimes Muddy Road
What’s up? The Friday links (73)
A lot of great papers were published this week, so prepare for some reading this weekend. The South Napa Earthquake, drilling the Alpine Fault, earthquake supercycles and a landslide handbook. Today is Friday [...]GeoEd: Education vs. Communication
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:19:59]
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In this guest blog post, Sam Illingworth, discusses the perceived differences between science education and science communication in light of a recent publication on this very subject. If you are involved in [...]
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SF-funded project to upgrade the microfossil collections in the Invertebrate Paleontology collection at AMNH
The Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History isoffering a small number of full-time, 8-week internships for graduate orundergraduate students in geology, invertebrate paleontology, [...]Qijianglong y los dragones chinos olvidados
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:06:00]
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Women in Geoblogging IV: People-Snatching Pterosaurs! Fossils! Argo Floats! Plus #SciArt!
I’ve got more Women in the Geoblogosphere goodness for ye today, my darlings! Settle in for science! -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comMarch 6, 2015
Tracking Evolution’s Rate through TrilobitesAmerican Museum of Natural History Growing Hydroponic Lettuce With Cave WaterWUFT.org Resources for Teachers from NOAANational Oceanic and Atmospheric [...]Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A lucinid bivalve from the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel
Wooster Geologists [05:54:08]
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Jurassic; US,IL
Above is a specimen of the lucinid bivalve Fimbria sp. from the Matmor Formation (Middle Jurassic) of Makhtesh Gadol in southern Israel. I collected it in 2007 while working with Meredith Sharpe (Wooster [...]
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Iceland's Bardarbunga Volcano Eruption Pauses
Volcano Science And News Blog [03:25:00]
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The long-running eruption of Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano has paused, or ceased. Webcam footage no longer is showing any lava coming out of the eruptive fissure, and scientists visited the site to [...]
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Calming Down
I've been on a frenetic tear lately. I signed up on Disqus and have made snarky comments left and right. This is not good for my serotonin. I find when my snark index is way up, I have a tendency to be [...]Top concepts:
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