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Thursday, 04 June 2020

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Doubling times and the curious case of the dog that didn't bark 

James’ Empty Blog [21:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (216 visits) info
I'm sure many of you spend your mornings glued to Parliament TV but for anyone who missed it, there was a House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee hearing on Tuesday, which discussed the science of Covid-19 with a particular focus on modelling. There are transcripts (two parts) here. and there is a video of the whole event here. Two things particularly caught my attention.

Protected: Plant carbon allocation, soil nutrient availability and the mycorrhizal business 

G-Soil [21:24:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (289 visits) info
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Current events and the work we need to do in our community 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [19:40:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
The following is an email that I sent today to graduate students in my department. I am sharing it here in the spirit of broadening the conversation beyond just our department. I follow in the footsteps of Dr. [...]

The COVID-19 Pandemic at Age 31 Versus 67 

State of the Planet [17:00:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info
A graduate student shares her experience of trying to protect the people around

Real-World Lessons From the Spring 2020 Environmental Science and Policy Workshop 

State of the Planet [16:00:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info
Students investigated policy or management problems faced by their clients in government and nonprofit

What the Forecast for an Active Hurricane Season Means for the Atlantic Region 

State of the Planet [14:00:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
Climate scientist Suzana Camargo shares some cautionary

El bestiario jurásico de Mario Lanzas 

Koprolitos [10:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (244 visits) info
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Hace unos días veíamos por aquí el bestiario cretácico que había creado el ilustrador Mario Lanzas inspirándose en la antigua cartografía medieval. Dentro de este proyecto, también ha realizado un [...]

★ “It is Alive and May Be Captured”. The Hunt for Living Dinosaurs in the Early 20th Century 

Hydrarchos [04:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
Sometimes it is made out that “alternative” facts are a new phenomenon, but anyone enversed in the history of science can probably easily rattle off a few well-chosen examples of this phenomenon. But [...]

C19 Update with Brazil 

Seismos [18:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info
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2020-06-04 Total US C19 deaths 107,175 Last five daily = [ 967  605  768 1031  995] Future estimates    122955 +/- 3046  =  Jul 1 total (95% confidence)    131582 +/- 3046  =  Aug 1    135598 [...]

le assurdità messe in campo dai climascettici 

scienzeedintorni [16:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (69 visits) info
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    Secondo i detrattori dietro Greta Thunberg c’è sicuramente qualcosa dietro: la lobby dei climatologi che si serve di una ragazzina che parla a dei ragazzini impressionabili per cercare di colpire [...]

Climate Risk Insurance for Colombia’s Smallholder Rice Farmers 

State of the Planet [15:00:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
Insurance payouts based on weather conditions are helping to keep premiums low and enabling millions of farmers access to coverage previously unavailable

Dinosaur Diet Revealed! 

Geology in the West Country [10:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (48 visits) info
Dinosaur Diet Revealed! A correspondent has sent me a link to THIS ARTICLE. It tells of a nodosaur, a type of ankylosaur, which fell into a stream and drowned. Its body was preserved in what is now an oil [...]

Terrible Lizards – a new dinosaur podcast 

Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings [08:09:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (266 visits) info
With a near global lockdown and people stuck at home there’s been a rash of new podcasts forming (or at least a rash of jokes about everyone starting new podcasts while they are stuck at home) and here is [...]

New raster-based vertical differencing tool 

OpenTopography Blog [02:25:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (198 visits) info
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