Peter K. Robertson, Ph.D., P.Eng, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Technical Advisor, Gregg Drilling & Testing Inc. is the 2015 recipient of the H. Bolton Seed Medal for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, or practice in geotechnical engineering. He presented his keynote lecture at the 2015 IFCEE Conference in San Antonio. The title of the presentation was Evaluation of Soil Liquefaction - How Far Have We Come in the Past 30 Years?
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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [18:10:00]
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In the interest of providing another opinion on Jurassic World, which is something the world sorely needs, we at LITC are giving a guest post to one "King Craptor."I liked that movie so much I gave it the [...]
A professional river guide came under fire for a rafting trip through the site of the Oso landslide. Families of the victims issued a cease and desist order, but the trip happened anyway. Opponents of the [...]
The newspaper up here in Arkansas did a lengthy profile on me. As part of the process they sent out a self portrait set of questions. Thought my readers beyond the Ozarks would like to see the [...]
On the heels of yesterday’s day-long hearing on several preliminary injunction motions in litigation challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (“BLM”) new final rule regulating hydraulic fracturing [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:40:39]
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If anyone tells you that the warming we’ve seen over the past century is just a natural swing in Earth’s temperature, they are wrong. Absolutely and totally wrong.This widespread myth is a favorite [...]
A lot of times on the blog, I talk about weird and often unfamiliar groups of echinoderms. But today I thought I would talk a little bit about a family of sea stars, the Asterinidae, which its most likely that [...]
Mini Ice Age may be heading our way! Met Office issues warning that temperatures could plummet as Sun enters cooler phase. The last big chill was felt hundreds of years ago when Frost Fairs were held on the [...]
On Feb. 15, 2013, with no warning, an asteroid 20 meters in diameter and weighing more than the Eiffel Tower plunged into the Earth’s atmosphere over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk at speeds in excess [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [17:07:30]
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Santiaguito volcano in Guatemala is one of the most active volcanoes in Central America: currently erupting every 45-90 mintues, from its active lava dome Agua de Caliente, while at the same time sending a [...]
Central Arizona Geology Club [20:01:00]
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The AZGS just put out a new map that shows a partial listing of the Breccia pipes in Northern Arizona.MapThe high density areas with many black features are the areas that have been mapped in detail. This [...]
Africa possibly doesn’t spring in your thoughts when planning for a seaside vacation whilst the first location you’d select, but there are lots of excellent reasons. Cape Area in Africa has up to [...]
Williamson (Nov. 24, 1816-June 23, 1895) was an English naturalist who founded modern paleobotany. His father, John Williamson, was a Yorkshire geologist and the friend of William Smith, the father of English [...]
Our planet’s deserts are sweeping landscapes of variety and diversity, human and otherwise. But if you are looking for imagery of the desert as desolate and threatening, then the new Mad Max movie will do [...]
Geology in the West Country [14:56:00]
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The Paleocene - Eocene thermal maximum: a geological insight into what is to come?Dr. Stephen Grimes, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth UniversityJuly 2nd, 7.30p.m. The Paleocene [...]
The Arizona Historical Society has opened a new exhibit in Tucson of the map collection of Robert Lenon.
Robert Lenon was a surveyor and mining engineer from
Patagonia, Arizona. In addition to creating a [...]
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A Department of Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD, USA B Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, [...]