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Friday, 07 August 2015
Henry Darwin, Director of the Arizona Dept. of Environmental Quality, is taking the job as Chief of Operations for Gov. Doug Ducey, replacing Ted Vogt, who is returning to the private sector.
ADEQ Deputy Director Misael Cabrera [right, my photo, 2013] will take over as Director at the end of August.
The Governor's Office issued this statement today:
“Mr. Darwin has a strong record
Master of Science in Sustainability Management graduate Tara Helms (’15) has a background in supply chain management in the energy sector and was drawn to the program as a way to shift her focus towards sustainability. Throughout her time in the program, Tara took advantage of various networking and certification courses and served as a Curriculum and Grading Assistant. Recently, Tara landed a new job with the new product development team at
For Andrew Cummings, the MPA ESP program is providing him the opportunity to marry science and policy with the experience he gained as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso. Cummings credits [...]
Natural arches ring like guitar strings, plucked by seismic energy and the wind. New research shows how those seismic chords can be used to determine whether the arches are in danger of
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [15:19:45]
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So here is a question: why would anyone want to live in the vicinity of an active volcano? The risks are well known, with hazards arising from lava flows, lahars, ash falls, debris avalanches, and pyroclastic [...]
In one sense, this is a local story, about a trail that I can walk to from my house. On the other, it is of interest to anyone who travels into the region, on their way to Yosemite and other more famous [...]
We've finished drilling at site U1459A, and it was certainly a challenge. It didn't have the chunky fragments like U1458 (the first drill site), [...]
Tracking A Mysterious Group of Asteroid OutcastsNASA Mining Oil Sands with Solvents ?Mining.com Land Subsidence and Relative Sea-Level Rise in the Southern Chesapeake Bay RegionUnited States Geological Survey [...]
Wooster Geologists [06:11:34]
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(155 visits) category→science_technology Ordovician; US
One of the many benefits of posting a “Fossil of the Week” is that I learn a lot while researching the highlighted specimens. I not only learn new things, I learn that some things I thought I knew [...]
My California son has started.
This the web site.
Throw your money at it! I've spent enough money on the education. If it is successful, maybe I get some travel out of it, if my son is generous. :)
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In the Company of Plants and Rocks [17:23:00]
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Crown of American pussy willow next to limestone cliff.On Wednesday I walked to the rim of the small canyon just east of town to check the willow I'm following. At first it looked like nothing had [...]
What is Matt looking at here? Matt was one of my Rockies students this summer, a geology major at the University of Virginia. Together with another UVA student and students from Mary Washington University and [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [10:16:04]
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Knowing that NASA,NOAA, and EVERY major scientific society on Earth says that we must immediately reduce our emissions of Carbon, or risk dangerously changing the planet’s life support system, [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [09:24:00]
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These pictures appear to show a Zeacrinites wortheni crinoid calyx fossil. If you look close at the top of the calyx image is a small point that appears to be part of the anal tube. It was found in the Glen [...]
Liang Long 梁龙 ("Diplodocus" en castellano) es el nombre artístico del pintas cantante de Second Hand Rose 二手 玫瑰 ("Rosa de Segunda Mano"), grupo de Beijing que mezcla elementos musicales del [...]
LOCKPORT, NEW YORK (August 7, 2015) — Today Andrej Ernst and I were able to join Brian Bade and his friends on a collecting trip up Buffalo Creek in Erie County, New York. Our goal was simply to look for [...]
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