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Tuesday, 29 March 2016
This Has Meteorologists Talking Today
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:56:53]
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An interesting paper came out today, and it has we meteorologists talking. It’s about using sea water temperature patterns in the Pacific to forecast heat waves in the eastern portions of North America. Researchers found that when a certain pattern of water temperatures appeared, there would often be unusually hot weather in the Eastern U.S. about 40-50 days later. A statistical analysis using this method over the years 1982-2013 showed
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Vorsicht, Steinschlag (erneut Bergstürze)
Im letzten Beitrag hatte ich ja über das Phänomen der "nasty dancing rocks" bei Bergstürzen geschrieben. Wie kleinere und größere Steine bei Steinschlägen an Geschwindigkeit gewinnen und sich dabei springend und um die eigene Achse drehend bewegen. Diese Bewegung kann sie nicht nur schwer zu berechnen machen, die hohe Geschwindigkeit und ihre weiten Sprünge machen sie bei den Bergrutschereignissen auch zu einer enormen Gefahr, wie man in dem unteren Video gut erkennen kann. Hier sind [...]Senate vote imminent on geologist de-licensing bill
A Long Way Gone
I graduated with a master's degree a couple of months ago. Even though I have neglected this blog in recent years and I still don't feel like a real geophysicist, technically graduation marked the end of the [...]Sea Story #3 = The other rescue
This story comes from Cornelis Van Gelder, one of our crane operators. He gave me a video to watch, but no photos to post (the one photo here is [...]Death Valley Trip, Getting There: Walker Lake, Road Stories, A Bit about Copper, and Some Folds near Luning
New satellite could provide better data for hurricane prediction
The launch of the GOES-R geostationary satellite in October 2016 could herald a new era for predicting hurricanes, a new study finds. The wealth of information from this new satellite, at time and space scales [...]Looking for a job in the geosciences? Visit the job spot at EGU 2016
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:52:07]
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The General Assembly can be an excellent source of information for those looking for jobs or doctoral positions. The Job Spot, is located in the EGU and Friends area, next to the EGU Booth (Hall X2, Brown [...]
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USGS Joins the March to New-Science (Philosophy)
The Big Gus has joined our favourite warmists, in fleeing physics. Their new map is totally qualitative and can mean anything they want to mean, day to day. Not a speck of physics. Ever since the warmists [...]Sparmos Dam – a significant dam failure in Greece on Sunday 28th March
On Sunday 28th March 2016 the Sparmos Dam in Greece underwent an overtopping and breach event, damaging local fields andCubiertas de prehistocómics X
Secrets of the sediment!
One of our scientists aboard the ship, Thibaut Caley, is studying specifically the leakage of water from the Agulhas Current into the Atlantic [...]Why Lake Hillier Is Pink
More than two years ago, we speculated as to why Australia’s Lake Hillier is such a spectacular pink. At the time, a type of color-producing algae, Dunaliella salina, was at[...] The post Why Lake Hillier Is [...]CUAHSI cyberseminars on Urban Streams
Green infrastructure, groundwater and the sustainable city Larry Band, Institute for the Environment at University of North Carolina Watershed context and the evolution of urban streams Derek Booth, Bren [...]Drone Regulations are Moving Forward
Two small quakes along Nevada border
Wooster Geologist Annette Hilton (’17) meets Lunar Geologist Harrison Schmitt
Annette Hilton (’17) gave a talk this month at the 47th Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference, along with her summer internship advisor Julianne Gross of the American Museum of Natural History and [...]Four new GIGAmacro images
Here are a few new images I’ve been working on with my home-based Magnify2 imaging system from GIGAmacro. Archean basement complex gneiss from the Gallatin Range of Montana: Link (If this looks familiar, [...]Putting Science at the Heart of Development
Sue Desmond-Hellman (CEO of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and Nick Hurd (Minister for International Development, DFID – UK Department for International Development) have written a joint article on [...]Camarotoechia haraganensis brachiopod from the Bois d'Arc formation of Oklahoma
Bozeman creation conference preview and expectations
On April 1-3, 2016, Grace Bible Church in Bozeman, Montana will be hosting a Creation Conference featuring three prominent young-Earth advocates. I plan on attending this conference, and posting reviews and [...]Families First: HMNS Expands Accessibility to Accommodate Autism Spectrum Disorders
Families come in many shapes, many sizes and many kinds. We at the Houston Museum of Natural Science are always looking for ways to make our halls and collections more accessible to families of every [...]Top concepts:
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