Marathon time has come round again. Jules and I decided against a trip to the EGU this year, having just recently gone to the AGU instead. So instead of Vienna Marathon, it was back to Manchester, who had kindly offered an extra discount to make up for the disasters of last year (which didn't actually affect us much as it happened). Due to a clash with some men kicking a pig's bladder around
Im afrikanischen Land Botswana gab es heute Abend ein schweres Erdbeben der Magnitude 6,5. Das Hypozentrum lag in 20 km Tiefe in einer recht dünn besiedelten Region am Rand der Kalahari. Mit Toten, oder [...]
More and more companies and nonprofits have a chief sustainability officer and are beginning to incorporate sustainability concerns into routine management. The world is slowly starting the transition from [...]
The geologic map I rely on for this blog — U.S. Geological Survey map MF-2342 — extends north to Pinole, where it shows this little pod of rocks labeled “Tsa” and “Tdi” between Pinole, El Sobrante [...]
I was honored this past November to receive the Geosciences in the Media Award from the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists for my book, "Carving Grand Canyon." I am honored to have this book [...]
Owls are nocturnal birds of prey that eat rodents and grasshoppers, digest the good stuff, and cough up the rest in compressed “pellets” of fur, bone, and chitinous exoskeleton. I found an owl pellet in my [...]
3 million activity downloads!
The ELI team is delighted to announce that by the end of March 2017, there have been 3 million activity downloads. We should like to thank all the volunteers involved in this [...]
2017 University of Maryland Geology Colloquium Series Friday, April 7th 2017 at 3:00 pm in PLS 1140 (College Park campus) Johnny Zhang Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fe-Ni-S-C Liquid in the Earth’s [...]
Der Vulkan Yasur auf der Insel Tanna (Vanuatu) zeigt heute ein hohes thermsiches Signal von 90 MW. Der daueraktive Vulkan produziert explosive Eruptionen, die in den letzten Monaten viel Asche förderten, [...]
So nearly a year has passed since the book launched and that now means that the paperback is due. I’ve been fielding a few questions about it (and of course I want to promote the new release – due on April [...]
This image shows a Syringopora hisingeri (Billings) coral fossil. They are found in the Jeffersonville Limestone of Clark County Indiana USA. The coral existed in the Devonian Period. It was on display at the [...]
Vanishing Arts: Highlights from the Beasley-Hwang Collection GET TICKETS FREE for Members Opens Mar. 24 It’s the culmination of decades of travel to exotic lands. An eclectic collection of unique [...]
In den letzten 24 Stunden legte der Fuego in Guatemala einen erneuten Paroxysmus hin. Dieser wäre bei mir beinahe unbemerkt geblieben, doch ein Blick auf die Detaildarstellung bei MIROVA enthüllte [...]
Kirsty Tinto flies aboard a specially equipped airplane in very cold places to study ice sheets and ice shelves. She’s an associate research scientist in the polar geophysics group at Lamont-Doherty Earth [...]
New observations of Uranus being buffeted by shock waves from the sun have revealed auroral activity and fresh clues to the workings of the seventh planet's unusual magnetosphere, the region of space dominated [...]
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Mike Sekowsky (1923-1989) debutó en 1941 en la Timely (hoy Marvel). En 1952 pasa a DC, donde se encargó de Wonder woman y crea el supergrupo Justice League of America (1960) con Gardner Fox.
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Expedition 367 is going to finish. We spent two months on the South China Sea and next expedition 368 will continue to work here with the same scientific [...]
Dear Police, a few days ago, a big contract-er, whom everybody thought was a contractor, was hit by a contractee, with a single bullet to the head. That was just around the corner.
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