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Wednesday, 27 May 2015

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NOAA Issues 2015 Hurricane Season Forecast 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:58:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
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You cannot learn to forecast something if you do not try, and testing predictions is what science is all about, so with that in mind, here is the hurricane forecast from NOAA for 2015. There is not a lot of skill in these forecasts, but this year we have some help. A growing El Nino (that looks like it may be a strong one) is the major factor in the

CSV to SHP with Python 

Digital Geography [23:42:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
Python is a well established script language in the GIS/geodata world. And as a Facebook friend asked how to read csvs with Python I thought about “How to convert a csv to a shp with Python?”. Keeping in mind that most GPS solutions and many internet tools offers a csv export and it’s common in any stats/spreadsheet program this can be a handy solution for your everyday life. See my solution here… Reading A CSV With Python As a first task, we need to read a csv. This is [...]

Sunrise patrol 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [23:37:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
category→sports
 IN
Just one full day of drilling time left now before we have to start pulling pipe and packing up to go back to Mumbai.  It's now a race to see we [...]

New takes on the Wealden Supergroup palaeobiota, part 1: Iguanodon, Neovenator, Eotyrannus and others 

markwitton.com blog [23:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
category→recreation
 Cretaceous,Carboniferous; GB,AU
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Regular readers will know that I'm prone to dabbling in palaeoart depicting the environments and animals of the Wealden Supergroup, the 18 million year stretch of Early Cretaceous time represented by mud-and [...]

Study: Over 70% of glacier volume in Everest region could be lost by 2100 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [20:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
category→recreation
 FR,NL,NP
     If greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise, glaciers in the Everest region of the Himalayas could experience dramatic change in the decades to come. A team of researchers in Nepal, France and the [...]

The Road to Make It Work 

State of the Planet [20:10:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
category→recreation
 FR,US
Students throughout Columbia University were notified of a once-in-a-lifetime chance to attend a student simulation in anticipation of the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in Paris. Two words jumped [...]

Andockmanöver an die ISS - aus der Sicht eines Kosmonauten 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
category→business
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Wie sieht ein Andockmanöver an die Internationale Raumstation eigentlich aus? Dieses Video zeigt es aus der Sicht des Kosmonauten einer Soyuz-Raumkapsel. Die Soyuz TMA-16M dockte am 27. März 2015 mit den [...]

Wie kann man aus einem kleinen Fettbrand in der Küche eine Katastrophe machen? 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
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Heißes Fett oder Öl in einem Topf oder einer Pfanne auf dem Herd, und dann die Zeit vergessen. Hat das Fett erstmal Feuer gefangen, ist die Panik meist groß und die Vernunft entsprechend klein. Wer jetzt [...]

Research Summary: Integrating Bacterial And Viral Water Quality Assessment To Predict Swimming-Associated Illness At A Freshwater Beach 

Lake Scientist [14:53:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
category→recreation
 GB
Background & Objective Recreational waters impacted by fecal contamination have been linked to gastrointestinal illness in swimmer populations. To date, few epidemiologic studies examine the risk for [...]

Natural Remedies For Anxiety 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [12:07:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
category→health
In case you are someone hoping to find natural treatments on your stress and anxiety issues, there may be nice thing about it. These types of therapies are easily available from lots of various resources. [...]

Charla sobre los quelonios de la Sala de las Tortugas 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [11:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
category→religion
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Con motivo de la III Semana de la Geología de la Universidad de Salamanca, Adán Pérez-García impartirá esta tarde, a las 17:00, una conferencia titulada “Relevancia Científica de la Sala de las [...]

Wind River Canyon in Wyoming: US20 closed by rockslides and debris flows 

The Landslide Blog [08:55:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
On Sunday exceptional rainfall triggered a series of landslides in Wind River Canyon in Wyoming, blocking both US20 and the BNSF railway

Fluorescent Minerals and UV Lamps 

Geology.com News [08:05:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (50 visits) info
category→recreation
About 15% of minerals will exhibit a visible fluorescence under shortwave or longwave ultraviolet illumination. The Geology.com Store has ultraviolet lamps, fluorescent mineral sets and UV-blocking safety [...]

Böðvarshólar geophone station goes off-line on 28-May-2015 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [00:09:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (60 visits) info
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I am going to turn off the geophone station in Böðvarshólar on 28-May-2015. The only renaming geophone stations after this is going to be in Heklubyggð. I don’t know for how long I am going to keep [...]

¡Malditos coprolitos! (Boom) 

Koprolitos [23:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (59 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 PH,MX
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El programa Boom, que presenta Juanra Bonet y emite Antena 3 de lunes a viernes a las 20:00 horas, consiste en que dos equipos (azul y rojo), de cuatro jugadores cada uno, deben desactivar un total de diez [...]

Por fin un fósil espectacular este año 

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [22:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (604 visits) info
category→science_technology
 ES
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Hemos tenido que esperar al antepenúltimo día de la campaña, pero por fin ha aparecido un fósil de esos que llaman la atención a la gente corriente; grande, en buen estado y de una especie considerada [...]

CMNH Curator Describes New Human Ancestor, Australopithecus deyiremeda 

Palaeoblog [20:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
category→science_technology
 ET
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New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity. 2015. Nature. Australopithecus deyiremeda is a new 3.3 to 3.5 million-year-old human ancestor. Its upper and lower jaw fossils [...]

The Beauty Of Lake Kerinci 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [20:14:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
category→recreation
Nearly eight hundred meters above ocean level, surrounded through boundless stretches associated with bright, green rice paddies so far as the eye can easily see; against a background of gently sloping [...]

Exactly how Water Hardness May Negatively Affect Locks 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [20:07:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
category→science_technology
Hard water occurs if you find a relatively higher concentration of ions for example magnesium, calcium, and iron which have been dissolved in water as it passes with the atmosphere and the floor toward [...]

Oil and Gas Fields Map of Utah 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [18:41:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (42 visits) info
By: Rebekah E. Wood and Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr. This CD contains an easily viewable 1:700,000-scale map in PDF format of Utah’s oil, gas, and CO₂ fields (past and present); oil gas and CO₂ pipelines [...]

Patching up the ozone hole: The success of the Montreal Protocol 

Climate and Geohazards [17:10:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
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New model results show that the Antarctic ozone hole would have grown in size by 40% by 2013 if ozone depleting chemicals had not been banned in the 1980s. CGS researchers at the University of Leeds’ [...]

Died This Day: Sandra Shaw 

Palaeoblog [13:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
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Although Sandra Shaw (May 27, 1913 – Feb. 16, 2000) had a short film career comprising a few, mostly uncredited film roles in 1933, her most famous appearance is that of the person plucked from her sleep [...]

Bridal Lingerie – A low profile Please 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [12:04:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
category→culture_politics
Girls have an in-depth need to wear an exceptional along with special look on their wedding party night. From your bridal gown towards the bride’s bouquet and make-up, every section of the bridal look [...]

Las vasijas dinosaurianas de Shio Kusaka 

Koprolitos [11:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 US
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Durante su juventud en Japón, Shio Kusaka no se mostró excesivamente interesada en el arte. Sin embargo, años más tarde y guiada por las ceremonias de té tradicionales que realizaba su abuela, se animó a [...]

May 27, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
A Rare Earth Shortage Transforms Into an Oversupply ?Forbes What Are Rare Earth Elements ?Geology.com World’s Oldest Stone ToolsThe New York Times US Coal Miner, Murray Energy, Will Lay of 21% of [...]

Japan Geoscience Union meeting in full swing 

Riparian Rap [05:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
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 JP,US
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We are happy to report our exhibit in Japan is being visited by multitudes of Japan Geoscience Union meeting attendees. All the excitement has us barely feeling the time change anymore. Despite [...]
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