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Thursday, 17 March 2016
NOAA: 10th Record Month in A Row. Temperature Off the Charts
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:17:00]
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February 2016 was the hottest month ever measured on Earth. The planet broke a heat record for the 10th month in a row in February and we broke it by a record amount as well. The heat was nothing short of amazing with Alaska averaging out at over 12 degrees above normal. That is nothing less than stunning. The odds that this warmth is part of a natural cycle have
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3D virtual sample of a deep sea pillow basalt
Our local NSF geoscience education guru, Jill Karsten, is retiring. She and her husband, Rodey Batiza, are packing up their lives and moving back home, vacating the Beltway for good. This might be viewed as a shame as far as geoscience education funding is concerned: Jill has made her mark acting as an advocate of diversifying the geoscience workforce. I hope they get someone similarly awesome to replace her atIrish Sunshine from Belfast to New York
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St. Patrick’s Day is not as big a deal in Ireland as it is in America, but it was an unusually nice early spring day there today. Most of the sunshine was in the UK portion, (Northern Ireland) but most [...]
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Jordan Lake Algae Fix Fails
A little more than two years ago, we covered the ambitious plan to rid North Carolina’s Jordan Lake of its algae problem using SolarBees, water circulating devices. At that time,[...] The post Jordan Lake [...]All good things…
by Nanci Bompey Nanci Bompey is AGU’s public information manager. She is spending a week aboard the R/V Oceanus with scientists from Oregon State University (OSU) who are studying the role that small rivers [...]Building Earthquake Early Warning on the West Coast
Blarney el dinosaurio te desea un feliz St. Patrick's Day...
MPA- ESP Students Attend UN World Wildlife Day
Columbia MPA Environmental Science and Policy Program students were excited to attend the Celebration of World Wildlife Day (WWD) on March 3rd at the UN Headquarters here in NewAlum Brings Solar Expertise to the Classroom
Master of Science in Sustainability Management professor Dan Giuffrida believes that understanding energy, water, and raw material usage with both a technical and financial acumen is imperative. As the [...]The Impact of the Internet in China
On March 7, 2016, Charles Chen, co-founder of China’s largest internet service portal, Tencent, gave a presentation on the impact of the internet on Chinese society. He talked about everything from the [...]Hoy nos visitan... los alumnos del IES Maestro Matías Bravo
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [12:43:00]
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Making it all work: the crew
Wednesday is the last day of the cruise – we are zig-zagging back along the coast and will head back to Newport tonight. I am finally getting the hang of walking and living on a continuously rockingHappy Saint Patrick's Day
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Imagine living in your house if you never did any maintenance. Just walking around would eventually become hazardous as things start to fall [...]Coming down to the wire on bill to de-license geologists in Arizona
<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 [...]A GIGAmacro view of the front and back of an anorthosite cobble
Here are two views of a single anorthosite cobble, collected in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York: Raw, natural surface: Link Slabbed and polished surface: Link As you zoom in and explore these [...]Tullimonstrum e la natura delle nostre tassonomie
Non è un amore? Ieri sera, poco prima di cena, è stata pubblicata la notizia paleontologica del 2016. No, non è relativa ad un theropode, né ad un dinosauro. Finalmente, dopo oltre mezzo secolo di [...]Geo tour of Northern Arizona
The Arizona Geologic Survey posted a Geo tour of Northern Arizona -- A virtual Field tripGeotourCheck it outHarryOf Woolsacks, Witches, Cheesewrings & Tors
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [14:52:00]
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Fantastic Find Of Small Reptiles Trapped In Amber - 100 Million Years Old
100 Million year old chameleon found trapped in Amber along with several other small reptiles. Fossils were found in collection donated to American Museum of Natural history.A total of 12 different small [...]The Urubamba River, Machu Picchu and Cusco Peru
The Val Strem rockslide – a dramatic long run out landslide in Switzerland
On Monday night the Val Strem rockslide thundered off the Cuolm is da Vinci in Switzerland. This dramatic rockslide travelled about 1 km down theA Surprise from the Zambezi River
Sidney Hemming and her team aboard the JOIDES Resolution got a surprise when they began taking sediment cores from their first river site off southern Africa – about 10 times more sediment thanTop concepts:
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