Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:47:02]
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El Nino is not just a warming of the surface waters in the East Pacific, the depth of that warm water increases as the thermocline lowers. This keeps nutrient rich colder waters from upwelling to the surface, impacting the very bottom of the food chain. NASA has a cool page (with much more info) where you can toggle back and forth and see the drop in chlorophyll here. How you
Qué todos tengan un gran San Saurio lleno de cervezas, vino y patxaranes.Lo que ven en la imagen es el cielo de la Patagonia con sus estrellas y un ente luminoso con forma sauriana. La fotografía la sacó Santiago González con 30 segundos de exposición, mientras el que escribe pintaba un dinosaurio en el aire con la luz roja de su linterna.¡¡¡¡¡Feliz San
Geology for Global Development [19:01:46]
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Cecilia Reed (aka Lady Rock) is a volcano and geology enthusiast, film-maker and communicator based in London, UK. She has previously published a really interesting series of videos relating to volcanic [...]
On Tuesday, November 3, the White House released a Presidential Memorandum: “Mitigating Impacts on Natural Resources from Development and Encouraging Related Private Investment” (“Memorandum”). The [...]
This week’s photo is brought to you from outer space! Indeed, this a beautiful cut section of a meteorite that fell in northwest Australia and was found in 1892 (ignore the label behind it). It...
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The PBS series NOVA has a new three-part series called “Making North America” that premiered last week. Hosted by the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural [...]
Fossil bird was even larger than the long-lost Great
Osborn graduated (August 8, 1857 - November 6, 1935) from Princeton in 1877 and pursued his interest in the biological sciences and paleontology through additional study at several New York City medical [...]
The Way of the Geophysicist [11:51:00]
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A farmer in Michigan was in for more than he bargained for when he tried to dig a drainage channel in his field. Turns out an 11,700 to 15,000 old mammoth skeleton was buried beneath. [...]
Yesterday a catastrophic tailings dam failure led to mudflows that swept through the town of Bento Rodrigues in Brazil. At least 15 people were
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [07:05:41]
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Food science is way out of my knowledge base but when I see someone who is doing great science communication being hounded away from it, I want to help. Kevin Folta has a popular podcast about food science [...]
Always lead with your most interesting image. The fossil here is the thin orange slab of siltstone underneath my magnificent Komodo Dragon model. Here is the slab itself. On the far right and the far left you [...]
Most environmental projects with a field component have an office-based project manager (PM), who works out the budget and schedule, deals with the client, and bargains with the other managers for appropriate [...]
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Texas has closed the book on how a set of wells could turn earthquakes on and off in Azle. I know they were injecting gas frack waste for a while (in my head). But they can never admit it.
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Louisville Area Fossils [13:48:00]
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These pictures are what appear to be Punctospirifer sp. brachiopod fossil. It was found in the New Providence Formation of Clark County Indiana USA. It dates to the Mississiippian Period.
Thanks to Kenny [...]
Another image from northern India’s Himalayas, courtesy of Martin Schmidt: The “intestine-like” aspect of this fold has a descriptive adjective in geology: ptygmatic. Gorgeous! Thanks for [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [12:39:00]
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En la actualidad, los cocodrilos habitan ambientes subtropicales con un estilo de vida anfibio. Sin embargo, hace millones de años, los cocodrilos exhibieron una gran diversidad ecológica y morfológica y [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:00:30]
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In addition to the usual GeoTalk interviews, where we highlight the work and achievements of early career researchers, over the next few months we’ll be introducing the Division early career scientist [...]
A farmer in Michigan was in for more than he bargained for when he tried to dig a drainage channel in his field. Turns out an 11,700 to 15,000 old mammoth skeleton was buried beneath. He hit up the university [...]
El diseño de camiseta de Salih Gonenli para Shirt Woot parece rememorar los antiguos gabinetes de curiosidades del siglo XVII. Habitaciones llenas de esqueletos de lugares remotos, animales con [...]
Il tipo di Spinosaurus aegyptiacus Stromer, 1915
Esattamente 100 anni fa, il 6 Novembre 1915, Ernst Stromer, presentava all'Accademia Reale Bavarese il terzo contributo scientifico tratto dalla sua [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:33:24]
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The AMS has published its annual look at how climate change may have impacted certain major weather events, and it makes for some fascinating reading. This kind of research is called an attribution study, and [...]
fox13now.com The rock slide in Red Canyon on Highway 12 is no longer blocking traffic. READ