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Tuesday, 26 January 2016

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Born This Day: Roy Chapman Andrews 

Palaeoblog [2016-01-26 14:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info

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Photo from Parade of Life Through The Ages, by Charles Knight, Nat. Geo., Feb. 1942. From the American Museum of Natural History web site: Adventurer, administrator, and Museum promoter — Andrews (Jan. 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960) spent his entire career at the American Museum of Natural History, where he rose through the ranks from departmental assistant, to expedition organizer, to

Life skills and fieldwork 

Accidental Remediation [2015-12-21 23:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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Ugh. I got a bug and then was distracted by holiday obligations, so I haven't posted for ages. But I'm back! So, life skills for environmental/geology fieldwork: when we hire newbies, we often assume a level of experience that they don't have. So we don't think to mention things that are common sense for us. So here's a list of various common sense skills/tools that I've had to explain

It Is Simpler to Develop a Realistic Fairy Garden When You Are Familiar With Mini Scales 

Liberty, Equality, Geology [2015-05-25 05:11:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
The attraction to miniature gardening or fairy gardens is that ages that can create a garden fit to their way of life as well as environments. From small terrarium yards to large-scale landscape yards, miniatures can be displayed in a variety of areas. Individuals living in the nation may think about making a plot of […] The post It Is Simpler to Develop a Realistic Fairy Garden When You Are Familiar With Mini Scales appeared first on Liberty, Equality, and

Born This Day: Roya Chapman Andrews 

Palaeoblog [2015-01-26 13:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (627 visits) info

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Photo from Parade of Life Through The Ages, by Charles Knight, Nat. Geo., Feb. 1942. From the American Museum of Natural History web site: Adventurer, administrator, and Museum promoter — Andrews (Jan. 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960) spent his entire career at the American Museum of Natural History, where he rose through the ranks from departmental assistant, to expedition organizer, to

cold adaptation 

Accidental Remediation [2015-01-13 23:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
I finally have this cold weather thing figured out. It took ages, but now I can do fieldwork in both absolute cold (well below freezing) and wet cold (deep snow, temperature just below freezing, pouring rain) all day without misery or risking hypothermia. The factors that keep me warm, from easy to adjust to... not: Behavior: 1. Breakfast is critical. I cannot have too many complex

The Drivers of Tropical Speciation 

Palaeoblog [2014-11-22 15:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (206 visits) info

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The drivers of tropical speciation. 2014. Smith, B.T., et al. Nature Yellow bars correspond to the 95% highest posterior density for divergence times of each species. The Quaternary (2.6 Myr ago–present) and the Neogene (23–2.6 Myr ago) periods are shaded in grey and light blue, respectively. Mean stem ages for 25 of the lineages occurred within the Neogene and for two lineages within

The Season of the Witch: Climate-Change and Witch-Hunt Through the Ages 

History of Geology [2014-11-03 22:42:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
August 3, 1562 a devastating thunderstorm hit central Europe, damaging buildings, killing animals and destroying crops and vineyards. The havoc caused by this natural disaster was so great, so unprecedented, that soon an unnatural origin for the storm was proposed. More alarming was the impression that it was not the only climatic anomaly at the

to the internet! 

Accidental Remediation [2014-04-26 02:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
I've become a lot more, um, substantial since I first started out in environmental consulting. I had an old pair of carhartts for ages, and at first they were way too big, and they hung off my hips and I had to roll them up. Now they sit at my natural waist (just barely) and they leave angry red lines across my stomach if I have to sit for any length of time. And they don't need to be rolled

field names 

Accidental Remediation [2014-02-18 02:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
One of my big pet peeves when starting work at a site that's been around for a while is erratic/random nomenclature. I start looking at figures and old reports, and they're just a big mess of different names with no rhyme or reason. So it takes ages (and keeping some cheat sheets close at hand) to figure out which wells are located where and at what depths - critical data to figure out what

personal training 

Accidental Remediation [2014-01-03 01:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
In a recent post, I mentioned that the HAZWOPER course can be tremendously useful for getting interns out into the field. I was fortunate in my own internship, ages ago: not only did the company pay for the 40-hour course, but they also paid for my time to attend and for my lunches while I was taking it. This was mind-boggling for college-age me. The real advantage to me was when I

Dating Rocks on Mars 

Geology.com News [2013-12-29 13:15:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (47 visits) info
“Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments—like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks—have always been done on Earth. Now, for the first time, researchers have successfully determined the age of a Martian rock—with experiments performed on Mars.” Quoted from the Caltech press

USU Geology Museum Opening, ‘Rock and Fossil Day’ Saturday, Nov. 9 

Utah Geological Survey - blog [2013-11-06 16:30:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (35 visits) info
usu.edu Utah State University’s Department of Geology announces the opening of a new museum on the school’s Logan campus, along with the return of the department’s popular ‘Rock and Fossil Day,’ Saturday, Nov. 9, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. All ages are invited to the free event, which features a variety of hands-on educational activities along

Earth Science Week Contests 

Geology.com News [2013-06-11 13:51:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
Earth Science week for 2013 will be held on October 13-19 and the theme will be “Mapping Our World”. They are having three contests… 1) Photography, “Mapping My Community”, for US residents and AGI Affiliates. 2) Visual Arts, “Making Maps Through the Ages”, for US students in grades K-5. 3) Essay Contest, “How Geoscientists Use

We are in MicroWorld!!! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2013-06-04 17:50:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
We are eight micropaleontologists aboard the JOIDES Resolution - four of us study diatoms, two study foraminifera, and two study radiolarians. These organisms are generally smaller than a grain of sand so we must study them using microscopes, despite the rocking of the ship. These organisms are important to the expedition because they can be used to determine the ages of the sediments. Display on [...]

GSA Fresno: One More Day 

About Geology [2013-05-23 03:20:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info

 Cretaceous
Wednesday was the last day of the formal sessions at the GSA Cordilleran Section meeting. The talks I attended were the final segment of the "meeting in a meeting" and centered on the hot new tool for sorting out the history of the highly scrambled western margin of North America: detrital zircons. Many bodies of rock have zircons with a mixture of ages, reflecting zircons inherited from previous rocks and (in the case of igneous rocks) zircons they have created. It's conceptually [...]

Eosinopteryx 

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-01-24 21:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (56 visits) info
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How constrained is the fossil?  I've seen differing ages of between 120 to 140 million years old.  That's quite a range. The press release is pretty bad.  I think that's pretty obvious now that feathers evolved as either for insulation or display first (or both) and then were adapted to flight.  The research seems overwhelming at this

table for one 

Accidental Remediation [2013-01-08 00:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info
Ages ago, I wrote about traveling and eating with a male coworker. I would estimate that about 1/3 of my fieldwork included one other person, 1/3 included a crowd, and 1/3 of the fieldwork was just me. Actually, if my grad school fieldwork were included (months in the middle of nowhere), it would be closer to 1/2 by myself. If I've ever been worried about eating out alone, it was for a

Broadcasting around the world 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2013-01-07 12:16:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
One of my principle tasks whilst on board is to deliver Skype broadcasts to students of all ages, all over the world. The schedule was completely full several weeks before the start of the expedition and we have calculated that we will speak with over 4000 young people. read

Ages 3 and up 

Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings [2012-12-17 18:37:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (46 visits) info
Just a bit of fun really, but I’ve just finished off an absolute mass of teaching and have finally come out the other side more-or-less intact. There’s catching up to do on various things and serious blogging will have to wait. Most of the teaching was a huge first year biology class (big in terms
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