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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Thursday, 02 June 2016
Akiyo and Go Matsumoto were busy last week representing Little River at the Japan Geoscience Union annual meeting in Tokyo. Their booth, featuring an Em2 with color-coded media, was extremely popular. Akiyo has been working hard selling models in Japan, and recently she assisted at a dedication ceremony for the Em2 at the Hamamatsu Science Museum during their 30th anniversary celebration.That's Akiyo with the mic. She's a natural and a pro at engaging
Abstract Close to redox boundaries, dark carbon fixation by chemoautotrophic bacteria may be a large contributor to overall carbon fixation. Still, little is known about the relative importance of this[...]
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I am going to be starting a new series called The Mysterious Valley: A Weird Western. This series will be focused on the merging of the people and environment of the Old West with dinosaurs and other [...]
Karolina Walęcik, a recently graduated MPA-DP student from the class of 2016, spent her summer field placement on a post-earthquake aid transparency project with the Accountability Lab in Kathmandu,
For those of us near the poles, all of our 'weather' comes from the equator in the form of plumes. These are generated by N-S ocean currents which are deflected up by land masses. Without any land [...]
Two weeks ago, I went on an awesome, informal field trip to eastern Washington State to visit the Channeled Scablands for the first time. My collegue Bill Richards of North Idaho College picked me up in [...]
Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [10:15:47]
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(197 visits) category→science_technology
Der Zugang zum Nationalpark Masaya wurde gestern wieder gesperrt. Am 31.05.2016 ereignete sich ein Schwarmbeben. Das stärkste Erdbeben hatte eine Magnitude von 4.3. Sein Hypozentrum lag in 4 km Tiefe. [...]
Koprolitos [09:50:00]
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(143 visits) category→arts_entertainment Jurassic; US
El artista londinense Jack Cunningham se caracteriza por un estilo limpio y sencillo de dibujo que recuerda a las ilustraciones de los libros infantiles. Trabaja como director en Nexus Productions, siendo [...]
Northwest Geology Field Trips [05:18:06]
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I am leading free geology walks at Point Whitehorn in Whatcom County this Saturday, June 4, as part of Whatcom Land Trusts annual “What’s the Point” nature walks. The walks are at 10:00 and [...]
Keeping this website running costs money and keeping my self a float costs money. Currently I am preparing to search for a job in Denmark in order to resolve this money issue for good, but that is going [...]
A new study finds that in a Phoenix suburb, homeowners’ associations are good for water conservation. According to the study, homes in HOAs in Goodyear, Arizona use up to 17,000 fewer liters of water (4490 [...]
Jupiter is now high in the southwest at dusk. It outshines all stars we ever see at night, so you can’t miss it. Mars and Saturn are now in the southeast at dusk. As you watch them rise, Mars is [...]
It hasn't really rained for a month, so anybody can do anything to a slope. Without water we'd get no landslides or earthquakes. Of course, we wouldn't be around to celebrate. :)
This was yesterday, [...]
Sentinel-2 is the optical satellite of the Copernicus programme. It can be compared to Landsat, although it has a better resolution, of 10 to 20 meters. We’ll be using it for crop monitoring with simple [...]
You can't mystify scientists of the Earth with questions of latitude. I had numerous answers pretty darn quick about why this stop sign reveals my location. The sign pole is casting no shadow! The only way [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(149 visits) category→recreation Devonian; US
Back in March I took a couple of days off ahead of a week of corporate meetings in Tucson, AZ to do some exploring in the Grand Canyon state. Besides visiting the typical tourist destinations, Grand Canyon, [...]
Reporting on a Revolution [05:11:00]
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(153 visits) category→science_technology IN
Something significant went unnoticed and unreported amongst all the hoopla surrounding the recent paper on Harappan civilization and its link to climate change. The theory of the glacial Sarasvati got dumped. [...]
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