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Wednesday, 19 August 2015

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ESA turns 100, and I turn 10: reflections on an ecological birthday 

The Contemplative Mammoth [22:31:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
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Last week I attended the 100th Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Baltimore. Happy Birthday, ESA! It also occurred to me that I’ve been going to ESA for ten years now (which means I’ve attended 10% of ESA’s!)– my very first was in Montreal in 2005, in the summer

ESA turns 100, and I turn 10: reflections on an ecological birthday 

The Contemplative Mammoth [22:31:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
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Last week I attended the 100th Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Baltimore. Happy Birthday, ESA! It also occurred to me that I’ve been going to ESA for ten years now (which means I’ve attended 10% of ESA’s!)– my very first was in Montreal in 2005, in the summer

Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Exploring North America's Southernmost Fjord 

Geotripper [21:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (242 visits) info
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One of the nice things about vagabonding, traveling without a set itinerary, is that one can make allowances for weather. That's a major consideration with a journey through the Pacific Northwest. We stayed an [...]

Cupulaster pauper Fritsch, 1893 

kreidefossilien.de - Bilder [19:31:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info
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 SK
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Fritsch, 1893, "Prieser Schichten": S. 112, Fig. 148 A., B. - Turon, oberes Turon-mittleres Coniac (Brezno-Formation) - Ort: Březno (Priesen), Bezirk

Seesterne der böhmischen, sächsischen und nordsudetischen Kreide 

kreidefossilien.de [19:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (59 visits) info
Abbildungen von mehr oder weniger vollständigen Exemplaren aus dem Elbsandsteingebirge in Sachsen, der Löwenberger Kreide (Schlesien) und dem böhmischen Kreidebecken (mit "Zittauer

Aesthetic calcite 

The Lost Geologist [17:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (197 visits) info
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Regular readers will have noticed that I like posting pretty pictures. Today, I felt like posting the next one! This time it is a calcite crystals found in the voids of a carbonate nodule from the Bavarian [...]

New study shows significant tsunami strength for parts of Southern California 

AGU Meetings [17:01:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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 US
Tsunamis generated by earthquake faults off the Santa Barbara coast could pose a greater danger to the cites of Ventura and Oxnard than previously

Field work in Chennai 

Water and Megacities [14:55:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (642 visits) info
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 IN,GB
The biggest challenge we had was to take the surveys in the slums. Because there is nobody able to speak English like in the middle and upper class. So it was very important to find a good translator and in [...]

Research Summary: The Great Lakes Futures Project 

Lake Scientist [14:22:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (190 visits) info
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 US
AResearch Associate Professor of Law and Policy, University at Buffalo, Regional Institute, School of Architecture and Planning, 77 Goodell Street, Suite 302, Buffalo, NY 14203 USA. The Great Lakes St.[...] [...]

Iron oxide sweat stains in sandstone 

Mountain Beltway [14:14:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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What do a sweaty baseball cap and fractured sandstone have in common? Episodes of absorption of dirty liquids that pile up material such as iron oxide at the soaking

From Above: Hiroshima 

Friends of the Pleistocene [12:13:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
Hiroshima, Japan on August 7th, all images this post FOP, 2015 It was an odd sensation to walk with through the streets of an unfamiliar city. To feel one’s  awareness constantly being pulled upward, [...]

August 19, 2015 

Geology.com News [08:10:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
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 US,EC,JP,
Ternary Diagraph Paper: Free Printable Graph PaperWaterproofPaper.com The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid !Wired Science Sakurajima in Japan Might Be Headed Towards a Large EruptionWired Science Arizona [...]

Tracing the Arctic 

State of the Planet [06:07:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (229 visits) info
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 US,
The land surrounding the Arctic Ocean is like a set of cradling arms, holding the ocean and the sea ice in a circular grasp. Within that cradle is a unique mix of waters, including freshwater from melting [...]

Crinoid Stem Segment Fossil - Flower Power! 

Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US
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These pictures show a crinoid stem segment fossil. It was found in the Glen Dean Member of Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period. It looks like a little flower or maybe [...]

Wo fremde Pflanzen sesshaft werden 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [20:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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Biologen erstellen globale Übersicht der Einwanderung und Ausbreitung fremder Pflanzenarten Eine wissenschaftliche Erhebung gibt erstmalig eine globale Übersicht über die Einwanderung von Pflanzenarten auf [...]

Seesterne der böhmischen, sächsischen und nordsudetischen Kreide 

kreidefossilien.de [19:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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Abbildungen von mehr oder weniger vollständigen Exemplaren aus dem Elbsandsteingebirge in Sachsen, der Löwenberger Kreide (Schlesien) und dem böhmischen Kreidebecken (mit "Zittauer

What’s the perfect B-Day? Puppies, reading and the museum! 

BEYONDbones [18:51:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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 US
For her eighth birthday, Maddie Sanders told her mom she wanted nothing more than to read to dogs at the museum. It seems like an unlikely service, but the Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land is [...]

Mapping Land Claimed by Sea Level Rise 

State of the Planet [17:14:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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Understanding how coastal areas changed as ocean rose in the past could help communities protect themselves from storm surge flooding in the future as the oceans warm and sea levels

Paleo Profile: Ganguroo robustiter 

Laelaps [15:00:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
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Name: Ganguroo robustiter Meaning: The species name denotes that this animal was about 20% larger than other known

What made the comet sing? 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:30:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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 DE,ES,CN,GB
Late last year the Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) announced that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been studying since August 2014, was singing [...]

Speech for Opening of SEG building GRC2 

Seismos [14:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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 DE,US
Speech to be given August 20, 2015 by SEG President Christopher Liner at Grand Opening of GRC2. Original draft by Steve Brown (SEG Staff) with edits by C. Liner and D. Proubasta--------------------Good [...]

GPS didn't do much for early warning 

Ontario-geofish [13:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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Reference The one hope I had for a seismic early warning system (actually, it wasn't much hope) would be that a real-time GPS network would catch the pre-slip of a large fault system. For a large fault, [...]

The world’s best Tenontosaurus skull 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [08:20:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; US
As stinkin’ ornithischians go, Tenontosaurus is near and dear to my heart. For some reason beyond the ken of mortals, the Antlers Formation of southeast Oklahoma has yielded only a small handful of [...]

Day of the Hunter (Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds) 

Koprolitos [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info
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 GB,RU,US
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"¡Hoy pa comel tiranosaurio al ajillo!"Dave estaba obsesionado con la caza, nunca tenía suficiente: jaguares, leones, cocodrilos, anacondas, elefantes... "Hasta el día que tuvo la mejor caza de todas... [...]

The Rise and Fall of America’s Fossil Dogs 

Laelaps [05:58:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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When it came time to adopt a dog, I knew I wanted a dog. An angry, yappy gremlin

restarting transmission 

Accidental Remediation [01:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (226 visits) info
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So, that was a big gap. I got hit with a whole bunch of issues (personal and professional) that sucked up all my time, and then my posting fell by the wayside when my newfangled "write on weekends, post [...]
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