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Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 5/16-5/22 

Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty creation is by Charlie Bartley (age 8):  Want to get your engineering handwork featured? Drop by our Block Party interactive play area and try your own hand building a gravity-defying masterpiece. Tag your photos with #HMNSBlockParty. … Continue reading

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 5/9-5/15 

Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty creation is by Charlie Bartley (age 8):  Want to get your engineering handwork featured? Drop by our Block Party interactive play area and try your own hand building a gravity-defying masterpiece. Tag your photos with #HMNSBlockParty. … Continue reading

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 5/2-5/8 

Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty creation is by Dylan (age: 9): Want to get your engineering handwork featured? Drop by our Block Party interactive play area and try your own hand building a gravity-defying masterpiece. Tag your photos with #HMNSBlockParty. Cultural Feast … Continue reading

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 4/25-5/1 

Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty creation is by Miles Sparks (age: 8): Want to get your engineering handwork featured? Drop by our Block Party interactive play area and try your own hand building a gravity-defying masterpiece. Tag your photos with #HMNSBlockParty. Film … Continue reading

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 4/11-4/17 

Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty creation is by Aileen and Adam Xu (ages: 14 & 17): Want to get your engineering handwork featured? Drop by our Block Party interactive play area and try your own hand building a gravity-defying masterpiece. Tag … Continue reading

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 3/14-3/20 

Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty creation is by Landon (age: 5): Want to get your engineering handwork featured? Drop by our Block Party interactive play area and try your own hand building a gravity-defying masterpiece. Tag your photos with #HMNSBlockParty. Visit HMNS … Continue reading

Fugro Releases FY 2015 Results 

Fugro released their 2015 Fiscal Year results, and the headline is 'Strong cash flow in continuing challenging oil and gas market'. The Dutch company's biggest market sector is oil and gas, and they are forecasting continued challenges this year with over-supply. The numbers show a drop in revenue of 17 percent from 2014 to 2015. Among the ways they managed the downturn is to sell or lease back two of their geotechnical drilling vessels, but they are also focusing on growing other market [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 2/15-2/21 

Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week! Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty creation: Want to get your engineering handwork featured? Drop by … Continue reading

Drop in copper prices moves Arizona out of #1 mining position 

<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]-->Arizona fell to second place in value of non-fuel minerals produced in 2015.  The USGS Mineral Commodities Summary for 2015 shows Arizona producing $6.8 billion of mineral vs $6.94 billion in Nevada. Nevada production is dominated by gold whereas Arizona is controlled by copper. Arizona production value was down 14% from the prior year. In 2014,

Satellite Detects Food Chain Impact of El Nino 

El Nino is not just a warming of the surface waters in the East Pacific, the depth of that warm water increases as the thermocline lowers. This keeps nutrient rich colder waters from upwelling to the surface, impacting the very bottom of the food chain. NASA has a cool page (with much more info) where you can toggle back and forth and see the drop in chlorophyll here. How you

Let's Get Physical Properties 

It takes an incredible amount of money and effort to retrieve a sediment core from below the sea. So we make sure we squeeze them for every last drop of scientific data, (sometimes literally) with an absolute GAUNTLET of tests.  read

Asarco to layoff 160 in Arizona due to copper price plunge 

Asarco is laying off 160 workers, with 130 at the Hayden and Ray operations and 30 at the Mission mine [right, credit, Asarco], due to the drop in copper prices.   Asarco's announcement stated: Last week Asarco gave notice to union representatives in advance of potential reduction in workforce at the Ray Mine, Hayden Mill, Mission Mine and consideration for shutting down the Moly Plant.

Calcium Loss Turning Canadian Lakes Into “Jelly” 

Beginning with the industrial revolution, calcium levels in Canadian lakes have been going down, according to research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The drop is[...] The post Calcium Loss Turning Canadian Lakes Into “Jelly” appeared first on Lake

(Almost) 3D view of Háifoss waterfall, Iceland 

Háifoss is Iceland’s second highest waterfall, with a drop of 122 metres.  It’s name means ‘Milky elfin vomit spout’ in Icelandic.  Not really; it’s ‘High waterfall’.  It is located inThjorsadalur, about an hour northeast of Selfoss. Hjálparfoss and Gjáin are … Continue reading

Update on earthquake swarm in Herðubreiðartögl on 9-May-2014 

This is a short update for the earthquake swarm in Herðubreiðartögl on the 9-May-2014. For the past 24 hours there has been drop in activity and no earthquake has been over magnitude 2,0. Activity continues but a lot … Continue reading

TODAY: The Great Utah ShakeOut 

Are you ready? Below are some articles that talk about the ShakeOut event, as well as other information for earthquake preparedness. sltrib.com The Great Utah Shake Out: Drop, cover and hold on today It’s not if, but when the Big One will hit Utah. Being ready could make the difference between being a statistic for

The Yosemite No One Sees in Summer...the Merced River Canyon 

The drought in California is horrific. It is quite probably the worst drought in centuries, but we received a slight respite in the form of showers and snow during the last part of March and early April. It was a drop in the bucket towards relieving the huge water deficit that has built up in the last few years, but it gave a shot of energy to the seedlings of grasses and wildflowers.

Multi-Model Assessments Predict Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture 

Developing countries are more likely to see a drop in agricultural productivity and increased food prices due to climate change, particularly in tropical regions, according to a set of new studies out this

SAND ANGELS! Astropecten The starfish that bury & dig themselves out! 

Image by Alan Cressler So, y'a know how people do this snow thing? SNOW ANGELS?  Drop yourself in some powder and go wild! Well, la-dee-da! Starfish can do that TOO! Except, not in snow. not in the winter. Not on land.  In sand. in mostly tropical shallow to temperate waters. So there. I am referring to the widely known "sand star" called Astropecten, which includes over 100 species

Geosciences Column: Just a drop in the ocean – river nutrients and Arctic plankton 

The oceans are a big contributor to the global carbon cycle, with phytoplankton taking up carbon through photosynthesis and incorporating it into their shells. When these organisms die their shells sink and make a calcareous contribution to seafloor sediments. Of course, with the formation of limestone, this carbon is locked out of the atmosphere for