Now that AGU is accepting nominations for this year's awards (the deadline is March 15), I thought I'd throw out a pitch for the early career awards - and particularly the one that I'm most heavily involved in, the Science For Solutions
Actually, I want your help here. I don't know the peak with the vertical flank on the right side of the picture above. I took this shot yesterday from near the intersection of Wellsford and Milnes Roads [...]
Twenty thousand years ago, low concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere allowed the earth to fall into the grip of an ice age. But despite decades of research, the reasons why levels of the [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:05:15]
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Inspired by a post on Lifehacker on what your average geologist carries in their rucksack/backpack, we’ve put together a few blog posts showcasing what a range of our EGU members carry in their bags whilst [...]
So, we can imagine the Early Earth, more than 4 billion years ago. Actually, these are all stupid pictures because we had a giant gas cloud like Venus, filled with all sorts of crap, mostly methane. [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [00:24:59]
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I put a lot of work in this website. While it’s not the most visual stunning website on the Internet, I try to keep it informative and to the point. This is a lot of work and like … Continue [...]
In July of 1964, the Houston Museum of Natural Science opened its new museum in Hermann Park with modest exhibit space and the Burke Baker Planetarium. A state-of-the-art Spitz Space Transit Planetarium [...]
Sarah Connors, EGU Science Policy Fellow Antonio Jordán, University of Seville Soil is often considered as the skin of the Earth and is located at the interface between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, [...]
Die Planungen zur Schnellfahrstrecke zwischen Dresden und Prag sind weiter vorangeschritten. Es wurden in der Streckenführung im Gegensatz zur Variantenuntersuchung von 2012 deutliche Veränderungen [...]
These are the happy plates at maximum bunching. From a physics point of view, what does this do the Earth? Can we think it was nothing? Nobody has really looked at this, so the world 'consensus' is that [...]
Any student of biology, or anyone with an interest in the natural world, will be familiar with Ernst Mayr who passed away on February 3rd, 2005 in Bedford, Mass. Born in Kempton, Germany he joined the [...]
David Prieto, one of the youngest graduates of the Earth Institute Sustainability Management program, helped establish the first Manta Ray Conservation Act in the Republic of Palau, aiding the creation of the [...]
During my stay in Raipur the capital of the Indian state Chhattisgarh, I had the opportunity to visit the huge development project called Naya Raipur (New Raipur). In an area roughly extending over 8000ha and [...]
Should probably be blogging about our little paper in review at Climate of the Past.
But bugger that: new catz have arrived!
Archie and Alfie grew to be large and elegant beasts, and went to a new home in [...]
Die Verarbeitung und Verwendung von Asbest ist bei uns in Deutschland zwar schon seit 1993 verboten, Das Problem aber noch lange nicht „erledigt“. Ganz im Gegenteil. Darum spielte das Thema Asbest auch auf [...]
This is a wonderful tale of geotechnical engineering in the marsh lands of Toronto, by the Humber River, site of slope failures and fish ladders.
This is life done right. I applaud the geotechnical [...]
scienzeedintorni [10:12:00]
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Nel mio libro “Il Meteorite e il Vulcano” ho parlato del ruolo molto importante svolto dai Trappi del Deccan nell'estinzione di fine Cretaceo. Oggi analizzo l'evoluzione dell'Oceano indiano, una [...]
Rare bones show this fossil carnivore was at home on the ground as well as in the
The United Nations has declared 2015 the hottest year since record keeping began. It was also a year marked by the occurrence of a “super” El Niño. Are the warming temperatures and El Niño
Earlier this week I shared a picture of a few books on diamonds that are on my current reading list. I’ve also mentioned in a couple of previous posts that I’d like to share with you a little [...]
Job Title: Scientific Assistant (Paleontology)The Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural Historyis seeking 1 full-time (35 hours per week) Scientific Assistant in theInvertebrate [...]
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 [...]
Koprolitos [09:26:00]
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Mete en una coctelera a un velociraptor de Jurassic Park y a la Britney Spears del "Hit me baby one more time". Agita un poco y... Voilà! Ahí tienes este diseño de camiseta de la artista norteamericana [...]
A new study shows that the North Atlantic Ocean absorbed 50 percent more man-made carbon dioxide over the last decade, compared to the previous decade. The findings show the impact that the burning of fossil [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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Here is another mystery brachiopod from the Chainman formation of Utah. It is a triangular shaped shell which is longer than wide. Both valves have coarse folds that extend from the hinge line to the anterior [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:53:29]
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Tonight at 19:50 UTC a magnitude 3,9 earthquake took place in Krýsuvík volcano. This earthquake is not volcano related, this is a tectonic earthquake and has started a minor earthquake swarm in Krýsuvík [...]
Outcrop - The Blog of the Avon RIGS Group [15:24:00]
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The coelacanth fish, found today in the Indian Ocean, is often called a ‘living fossil’ because its last ancestors existed about 70 million years ago and it has survived into the present – but without [...]
Geology in the West Country [12:06:00]
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4th February - Bath Geological Society AGM and 'Cotham Marble'Further details here 16th February - WRGS24th February - Bristol NATS - Geology sectionThomas Hawkins and his Sea Dragons – a mad, bad fossil [...]
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Three new landslide videos, including a debris flow from Aconcagua, an earthflow from Muothatal in Switzerland and coastal erosion in
This is the inspiration.
I've done this before, but I'll do it again. This is about the physics of the earth, or geophysics, which our warmists never want to think about. Not that I'm saying they are [...]
Die Planungen zur Schnellfahrstrecke zwischen Dresden und Prag sind weiter vorangeschritten. Es wurden in der Streckenführung im Gegensatz zur Variantenuntersuchung von 2012 deutliche Veränderungen [...]