The 16 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering will be held from 9-13 January, 2017, in Santiago de Chile. Note that the deadline for short abstracts submission is 23 November, 2015! Abstracts can be submitted via this link. This meeting comes with a number of sessions which are interesting for earthquake geologists, paleoseismologists and those of us who deal with seismic hazard assessments. Among them: 14SS – Uncertainty in the Estimation of Earthquake Hazard 19SS – Earthquakes [...]
Wissenschaftler simulieren für eine Untersuchung das Deepwater Horizon-Unglück in Tiefenwässern des Golfs von MexikoNach Ölunfällen im Meer, etwa durch Tankerunglücke oder auslaufende Pipelines und [...]
In recent decades, the effects of El Niño on Great Lakes water levels have varied. In one that spanned from 1982 to 1983, levels of some lakes (Michigan-Huron) went down.[...]
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This is the global background microwave level. It reflects ground temperature, but also represents total heat being radiated out to space, since that is what the sensors are reading. The two aren't quite [...]
After reviewing links on my 2009 blowpipe tests post (spurred on by this recent comment on another post), I decided to do a little more research concerning field tests for gold, silver, and other metals [...]
25.09. bis 30.09.2016
Unter dem Motto "Übergänge im Quartär" findet vom 25.09. bis 30.09.2016 die Deutsche Quartärtagung (DEUQUA) in Dresden statt.
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Mantell (Feb. 3, 1790 – Nov. 10, 1852), a physician of Lewes in Sussex in southern England, had for years been collecting fossils in the sandstone of Tilgate forest, and he had discovered bones belonging to [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [12:19:32]
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One thing that always bemuses me is the near-absolute serendipity of the academic job market. To get into research careers takes at least a decade of very deliberate, directed work, and then at the end you [...]
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Chi mi segue lo sa: io ho sempre detto che il meteorite caduto nello Yucatan non c'entra nulla con l'estinzione dei dinosauri, che invece si spiega bene con le eruzioni dei basalti del Deccan. Ho studiato [...]
It is likely that the Bento Rodriguez disaster was triggered by the collapse of the Fundao Dam. Google Earth reveals the history of the
Louisville Area Fossils [03:00:00]
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This brachiopod fossil is known as Digonella digona. It was found in Luc sur mer, Normandy, France. It dates to the Jurassic (Bathonien).
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Jeff Bowman, a postdoctoral research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is in Antarctica for the field season studying how phytoplankton and bacteria interact. Follow his reports from Palmer [...]
I’m putting this up here as I do still get a fair number of visitors and obviously this site is still very pterosaur centric. Pterosaur enthusiasts will know there have been a series of volumes of [...]
A live-streamed international conference on El Niño takes place on Nov. 17 and 18 at the International Research Institute for Climate and
The recent paper by Zwally et al. in the Journal of Glaciology has been widely reported as evidence that Antarctic is gaining mass, and hence lowering sea level. Is it? Expert Jonathan Bamber weighs in. Guest [...]
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25.09. bis 30.09.2016
Unter dem Motto "Übergänge im Quartär" findet vom 25.09. bis 30.09.2016 die Deutsche Quartärtagung (DEUQUA) in Dresden statt.
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There was a big flurry of earthquakes yesterday. They are tracking the northern fault, with compression earthquakes at the end, just like Cushing. For a while the system appeared to be
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [11:11:00]
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El pasado Junio, la revista Principia se convertía en realidad. A través de una campaña de crowdfunding en Verkami que fue todo un éxito (se consiguió más del doble del objetivo inicial), se editó el [...]
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Geotripper [07:28:00]
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I've been reviewing some of the stops on our recent field studies course through the karst country of California. This landscape is the portion of the Sierra Nevada Mother Lode that is underlain by the marble [...]