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Monday, 03 April 2017

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2:51:46 

James’ Empty Blog [23:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
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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

Hymne der Geologen 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (961 visits) info
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Botswana: Erdbeben M 6,5 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [20:27:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info
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 [...]

Transforming Organizations with Sustainability Management 

State of the Planet [18:10:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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 [...]

East Bay diatomite 

Oakland Geology [17:03:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (237 visits) info
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 [...]

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Name "Carving Grand Canyon" Winner of the 2016 Geosciences in the Media Award 

Earthly Musings [16:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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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 [...]

Virtual owl pellet 

Mountain Beltway [14:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
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 downloads / ELI translations 

Earth Learning Idea [13:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info
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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 [...]

UMD Geology: Zhang on Fe-Ni-S-C Liquid in the Earth’s Mantle 

DC Geology Events [13:13:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
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 [...]

Yasur: hohes thermisches Signal 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [10:41:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
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, [...]

The Tyrannosaur Chronicles – now in paperback 

Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings [09:12:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (262 visits) info
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 [...]

Syringopora Coral Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [04:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info
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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 [...]

HMNS Weekly Happenings 

BEYONDbones [19:00:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info
    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 [...]

Fuego: erneuter Paroxysmus 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [17:05:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
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: Mapping on and under Antarctica’s Ice 

State of the Planet [16:33:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
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 [...]

Untangling Uranus’s topsy-turvy magnetosphere 

Geospace [15:39:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
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 [...]

Imaggeo On Mondays: Halo 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:00:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info
One of the main perks of being a geoscientist is that, often, research takes scientists all around the globe to conduct their work. While fieldwork can be hard and challenging it also offers the opportunity to [...]

Emerging Contaminants: The Rough Teenagers 

GeoSphere [13:44:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info
In geochemistry I see the term “bad actors” used more often than it should be to describe well-known environmental contaminants. “Bad actors” refers to contaminants we see... [[ This is a content [...]

Superhéroes y Dinosaurios IX: Mike Sekowsky 

Koprolitos [12:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (57 visits) info
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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. En Justice [...]

Science on board - Expedition 367 in one minute! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [09:28:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (59 visits) info
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 [...]

Unforced variations: Apr 2017 

Real Climate [06:42:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (217 visits) info
This month’s open

Letter to the Toronto Police 

Ontario-geofish [00:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
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. You went around the [...]
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