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East Coast Blizzard Brewing? 

  There are increasing signs this early Sunday morning that the winter of 2015 is about to go into high gear. A major nor’easter is likely to develop Monday and move NE to off the New England coast by Tuesday evening. A word of warning here- there is still a lot of uncertainty in the strength and track of this low and that will play a big role in how

Traveling to Las Vegas and Los Angeles Next Week 

Next week I'll be on the road again with visits to AEG Sections in Southern Nevada (Las Vegas) and Southern California (meeting in North Hollywood). I'll be in Vegas on Tuesday evening and the LA-area on Wednesday evening. If you're in the area, it'd be great if you could attend (both Sections have selected my talk about the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge). Information below Las

Doppler Radar Sees Debris from Antares Explosion 

The NWS Doppler radar at Wakefield,Va detected the debris from the Antares explosion Tuesday evening. Not only that, but it was able to show that this was not rain but debris in the air. Being a dual polarimetric radar it can detect the shape of the particles in the radar beam, and a product called the correlation coefficient showed that the echo was made up of particles that were of

To storm or not on this Thanksgiving? 

The GFS model forecast by the National Weather Servicefor 4:00 p.m. Thursday PSTtaken from Cliff Mass's blog discussed in textHmmmmm...who to believe? If you read CNN.com here, you get the impression that Thanksgiving is going to be a mess. In fact, that article is on the front page of CNN.com with titles "Massive storm for Thanksgiving" and "A side of weather with your story." I was feeling smug that I am staying local for Thanksgiving, and so I turned for a local forecast to my favorite [...]

homeward bound 

We left the Hess Deep rift on Tuesday evening and are now underway on our 6 day transit to Panama. Our current position is Lat 3 28.3 and Lon 95.44 we are cruising along at 11.5 knots. read

Boulder vs house 

A 7 m diameter boulder thit a large house in Athens Ohio on Tuesday evening, causing considerable

8th November - Tracking Gondwanan ice sheets 

WEGA - next Tuesday evening, 8th NovemberTracking Gondwanan Ice sheets using sedimentology and zircon dating - Oman and AustraliaProf Brian Williams (Aberdeen University)Everyone welcome - Wills Memorial Building, Park Street, Bristol ,

Tracking the origin of the Phoenix haboob 

The weather experts have been weighing in with radar and satellite images to explain the origin of Tuesday evening's haboob that buried Phoenix in a 100 mile wide dust storm.Jesse Ferrell at the Weather Matrix blog suggests the event was caused by the collision of two outflow boundaries. "The way outflow boundaries are caused is illustrated thusly: Basically, cold air crashes down out of

UA public forum on Disaster in Japan 

The unfolding drama in Japan continues to grip our attention with continuing reports of trace amounts of radiation being detected from the Fukushima reactors. The University of Arizona is holding a public forum Tuesday evening a6 6:30 pm at Centennial Hall on the UA campus, with a panel "to provide expert perspectives on the science behind the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crises that

Career Contribution Award to George Davis 

The Geological Society of America's  Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award for 2010 is going to UA geoscientist George Davis.    [right, George in Navajo Sandstone in the Kaibab uplift, southern Utah] The award will be given at the SG&T business meeting of the GSA annual meeting in Denver this year, Tuesday evening, November 2nd. Congrats George!  Well

Biosphere 2 Ready for New Research 

Biosphere 2, that grand experiment with a checkered history, is being readied for new research conducted by the University of Arizona. Tuesday evening, Dr. Travis Huxman discussed plans for the facility with a group of about 30 people at the Cushing Street Bar. Huxman, who has a doctorate in biological sciences, and is an associate professor

Friday Flotsam: Kanlaon seismicity, the media loves Yellowstone and none like it hot. 

Lets get right to it! "Manmade volcanoes": can they solve global warming? It does indeed seem that something is happening beneath Kanlaon in the Philippines. PHIVOLCS reports that the volcano experienced 257 volcanic earthquakes from August 23 to September 1, well above the usually "background" level of ~20-30 a week. Most of this seismicity is centered on the northwest slope of the volcano, suggesting that if magma is moving, it is moving up under this side of the system. However, the [...]

A Persuasive Case for Martian Mud Volcanoes 

The 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference is going on this week in Texas, an event that ought to be on my life list. Tuesday evening a poster was