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Girl Scouts earn badges for science at HMNS 

by James Talmage, Scout Programs After more than a year of hard work, Girl Scouts Heidi Tamm, Zoe Kass, Meredith Lytle and her sister Angela Lytle completed the entire Scouts@HMNS Careers in Science [...]

In a Melting Iceland, Drilling Deep to Stem Climate Change 

Tiny Iceland is a prime exemplar of the complexities wrought by warming climate. It is 11 percent covered by ice, but it is basically also one very large, very active volcanic system. The island has [...]

About Utah: A tale of 2 cameras 

deseretnews.com A Colorado River ferry operator named Arthur Chaffin created quite a stir more than half-a-century ago in 1949 when, armed solely with his camera, he set off from his cabin in Hite to a remote [...]

The Great Utah ShakeOut: Readying Utahns for a 7.0 quake 

deseretnews.com Drop, cover and hold on. More than 700,000 Utahns will be participating in a statewide earthquake drill Thursday for the annual Great Utah ShakeOut, an initiative to help people and [...]

Monday Geology Picture: Sydney Sandstone Building Stones 

During my recent travels in Australia, I noticed quite a bit of sandstone around Sydney. Therefore, I was not particularly surprised to also see quite a few sandstone building stones around the city. For [...]

April 22nd Landscapes and Geology of the Shepton Mallet area 

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USEPA Releases Proposed Rule on Fracking Wastewater Treatment; Says There Will be No Costs to Industry 

On Tuesday, April 7, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register for regulation of wastewater from unconventional oil and gas operations [...]

200th anniversary of Tambora eruption - remonder of volcanoc perils 

Read moreThe spheres above represent the volume of erupted tephra for some of the most widely-known volcanic eruptions. Most people believe that Vesuvius in AD79, Mount St. Helens 1980, Mount Pinatubo 1991 [...]

What's the difference between weathering and erosion? 

Today's new ELI addresses the common misconceptions about weathering and erosion. Textbook surveys have shown that misconceptions between weathering and erosion are common, when the scientific consensus is [...]

Linux - 4.0 Kernel Working Well 

It's working fine for me.  I wonder if they have the alx bug fixed now.  3.9.3  activated that bug and I was waiting for the next version, but it hasn't come yet.  It's my laptop with the funny ethernet [...]

Died This Day: Amanz Gressly 

Gressly (July 17, 1814 - April 13, 1965) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist who was a pioneer, and regarded by some as the founder, of paleogeography. He is known for his work identifying stratigraphic [...]

Ocean Acidification & the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction 

Ocean acidification and the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. 2015. Clarkson, et al. Science Art by Basil WolvertonChanges to the Earth's oceans, caused by extreme volcanic activity, triggered the greatest [...]

Animali nelle Miniere: Ossa e Sangue sono il Prezzo del Progresso 

La vita é difficile nell´antro della terra, ancora di più per organismi non adatti alle condizioni proibitive incontrate laggiù. Ma fin´dall´antichità le ricchezze nascoste – prima selce e molto [...]

GIFT at the Assembly: Mineral Resources 

The EGU’s Geosciences Information for Teachers (GIFT) programme offers teachers attending the conference the opportunity to hone their Earth science skills. The General Assembly workshop is one of GIFT’s [...]

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Review of a paper: progressive failure leading to a rockfall in Catalonia, Spain 

An important new paper by Royan et al (2015) has used terrestrial LiDAR to examine progressive failure of a rockslope in

New FHWA Soil Nail Manual Addresses LRFD, Hollow Bars 

Since March of 2003, the FHWA’s Geotechnical Engineering Circular Number 7 (GEC No. 7) has been the standard reference document for design and construction of soil nail retaining walls in roadway [...]

A Wild Weekend of Opera, Spending, and Sex 

I write of the sex of this weekend’s operas; the rest must remain unwritten.  For it is the opera of personal life. It started painfully enough when the dentist extracted a tooth that has plagued me [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 4/13-4/19 

Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week! NOW OPEN! Special Exhibition – China’s Lost [...]

Digital Sanborn access expanded to entire country 

The UC Berkeley community now has access to the complete collection of Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970, covering the entire United States. This purchase was made possible through the increased collections [...]

Photo Essay: Iceland at the Cutting Edge of Climate Change 

Iceland has a complicated relationship with climate change. As in much of the far north, global warming is already exerting many effects here–arguably both good and bad. Yet the country contributes [...]

Ceres President Mindy Lubber to Talk on Sustainable Finance 

Sustainable investment leader Mindy S. Lubber, president of the Boston-based Ceres, will speak on "Using the Tools of the System to Sustain the Planet" at a special Earth Day class session on April

The startling projections of a quake in Salt Lake City: What you need to know 

deseretnews.com It’s 2 a.m. on an April Thursday. Along the Wasatch Front, most of the more than 2 million Utahns who live here are sleeping, at home in suburban homes or aging apartments, even as thousands [...]

Kalkberge im Meer ─ Studie präzisiert Entstehungsbedingungen faszinierender Tiefseelandschaften 

n einer Studie, die jetzt in der Zeitschrift Earth-Science Reviews erschienen ist, befassen sich Prof. Dierk Hebbeln und Prof. Elias Samankassou, Universität Genf, mit der Entstehung von Kalkschlammhügeln [...]

How conveniently can you package your results? 

A couple of weeks ago, Mike sent me a link to this interview with ecologist James O’Hanlon, who made this poster (borrowed from this post on O’Hanlon’s blog): We had a short email exchange [...]

Permian Triassic greatest mass extinction driven by acidic oceans 

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Ovos de crocodilomorfos do Jurássico Superior de Portugal, em Tese de Mestrado de João Russo 

Ovos de crocodilomorfos estiveram em destaque quando João Russo defendeu esta segunda feira, 13 de Abril de 2015, no Campus da FCT-UNL na Caparica a sua dissertação intitulada "Eggs and eggshells of [...]

Earth’s Climate Evolution – a Geological Perspective on Climate Change 

A guest post from Colin Summerhayes, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge Before we can understand how humans may be changing the climate, we need to establish a baseline. We have one in the geological [...]

A Scientific Debate 

Guest posting from Bill Ruddiman, University of Virginia Recently I’ve read claims that some scientists are opposed to AGW but won’t speak out because they fear censure from a nearly monolithic community [...]

The American Museum Brontosaur - A History In Pictures 

The wooden model used to explore poses for the original brontosaur mount is now on display beside therevised mount at the AMNH. Photo by the author.Here's one more post to commemorate the revival of the [...]

Photo Contest finalists 2015 – who will you vote for? 

The selection committee received over 200 photos for this year’s EGU Photo Contest, covering fields across the geosciences. The fantastic finalist photos are below and they are being exhibited in Hall [...]

Grundlage des Lebens – der Boden 

Die Fördergemeinschaft Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft e. V.: brachte die neue Broschüre

Back to Basics – Geology and International Development (Part 3/4) 

How can an understanding of geology support and strengthen international development?  #7 – Identifying, extracting and managing natural resources, including appropriate environmental protection and [...]

At the Assembly: Monday highlights 

Welcome to the 2015 General Assembly! This is the first full day of sessions and there’s a feast of them to choose from. Every day we’ll be sharing some super sessions and events at EGU 2015 here on GeoLog [...]

April 13, 2015 

Using Satellite Data to Track Freshwater Algal ThreatsUnited States Geological Survey Crude Swaps as an Alternative to ExportsOil and Gas Journal Mexican Official Says U.S. Oil Swap Proposal [...]

Spring Marches North: The View from Space 

This is from the NASA Aqua satellite. You can see the green of spring moving into Virginia, while snow remains in the Adirondacks. High resolution, color imagery from polar orbiting satellites allows folks [...]

Recapitating Apatosaurus 

You may have felt rumblings reverberating through the Internet this week, like the roll of distant thunder. That’s

M3.3 shallow thrust under Cushing Ok. - Intensity 4 

Ok, here's the deal.  Those oil tanks all rupture at a PGV of 50 cm/s.  The pitiful dykes don't have a chance.  There is a sea of oil, and the crunching steel sets it ablaze. Probably better than going [...]