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Scientific Conferences on a Budget 

Conferences are an important part of the world of science and technology. We get to publish preliminary results and bounce them off of our colleagues (or sometimes strongest competitors). It’s time for networking and also helps to take a break from the lab grind. But conferences take a huge burden on our budget. We have […] The post Scientific Conferences on a Budget appeared first on The Way of the Geophysicist. Related posts: Today I want to be Canadian Got geophysics? It [...]

Greatest show on Earth! 

One of the school groups asked me what I missed most being out on the ocean so long.  I think they all were thinking it should be TV.  In fact, I feel like I've got a way better show to watch than any TV show - the outdoor channel!  I can spend hours watching the ocean (always hoping for marine mammals).  On both shifts, everyone takes a break for watching either the sunrise read

The Moho Mohawk (No coring = boring) 

Over the transit, during our medical evacuation, the scientists on board were able to catch up on a bit of their work. Before we left the site the core was coming up on deck fast a furious. This break in fresh core allowed them to continue analyzing the core we had already collected. We even used the time for our first sampling party.  read

Okeanos Explorer,Evoplosoma and the North Atlantic Starfish Coral Predators!! 

This week, a bit of a break from my work in Japan to blog about my NEW paper!! Its a little something I've published in Marine Biodiversity Records focusing primarily on the deep-sea coral devouring starfish Evoplosoma and some of its relatives in the family Goniasteridae!   The paper is noteworthy because it uses actual images and data from the Okeanos Explorer research and

AGU Fall Meeting 2014: Day 3 

Wednesday was a bit of a break in terms of activities for me. I had the chance to sit down and listen to some talks about multiparameter monitoring at volcanoes (including hearing about Diana Roman's "BENTO Box" instrument platform, which reminds me of the 'spiders' that the USGS uses to get seismometers out to difficult field

Exploring Southern Utah: The Vortex 

Take a break this afternoon for some Southern Utah daydreams with this fun read on The Vortex in the Red Mountain Wilderness. suindependent.com The Vortex If you go: Drive up SR-18 towards Dammeron Valley. About 3 miles after the Red Mountain Trailhead sign, you need to turn left onto the road for Sand Cove Reservoir.

Cross-country recap, and a brief hiatus 

So I've made it across the country, and I'm now happily settled in California and getting used to my new job as a postdoc with the USGS! However, being a federal employee means I have different regulations to follow while using social media, so I'm going to be taking a break from blogging while I sort those out. To tide you over, here are some of my favorite photos from the cross-country drive, which was a great (though long)

Help please - Saltford railway path - 2nd, 3rd October 

Excavation work on the Railway Path at Saltford starts on the 2nd & 3rdOctober.  I had hoped to have a few people to assist.The most important thing is that there are adequate helpers to work with thepublic so that we avoid anyone being crushed by the digger but it will alsoprovide an opportunity to follow the progress of the dig.  The warm weatherlooks to continue in our favour.If you know of anyone who can help - please get them to give me a call(01373 474086) or emailA few [...]

GeoCinema Online: Saturn and its Icy Moon 

It is day three of the General Assembly in Vienna, there are no sessions directly relevant to your research scheduled in the programme for this afternoon and you would really like to take a bit of a break from the hustle and bustle of the main scientific sessions. Where do you head? Down to the

Sand gets everywhere 

Saharan dust is currently escaping the confines of the desert and making a break for it over the Atlantic Ocean towards South America. Below is a true colour image from the MODIS instrument on the TERRA satellite from this morning (6th June). You can see the dust from the desert over the ocean; note the

Seeing Stars with James Wooten: Break out the sunscreen, ’cause here comes the Summer Solstice 

This month, Jupiter remains in the evening sky for one more month. Look for it low in the west at dusk, outshining all the stars we ever see at night.  Mars is in the southwest at dusk this month. Mars continues to … Continue reading

Unforced variations: May 2014 

This month’s open thread. In order to give everyone a break, no discussion of mitigation options this month – that has been done to death in previous threads. Anything related to climate science is totally fine: Carbon dioxide levels maybe, or TED talks

Seeing the archaeological site of Shivta through a geologist’s eyes 

MITZPE RAMON, ISRAEL–The tradition we’ve built over the years on our Israel expeditions is to travel to interesting places on Saturdays to take a break from work. Yes, it appears geologists never really stop geologizing, but then that’s not really “work”, is it? Today Yoav, part of his family and I went to the Nabatean-Byzantine

Scenic Saturday: Frozen waterfall, end of winter 

It’s been so cold, the geodog has been a bit shortchanged on long walks this winter. But we might finally be seeing a break in the weather and we took advantage of it for an end-of-day stroll along the Cuyahoga … Continue reading

The great OK fault model - thrust 

Here we have a few from above.  Don't forget that the main lines are trending NE towards Toronto.  All the stress is down this trend, so you can't have a good earthquake without a break.  Although the last movement of the megathrust was downwards, the plane of the megathrust just acts as a weakness. The weakness that gives us a New Madrid is a transform, or adjustment fault.  The old

Give me a break! Snow is Wrath For Fords 

Another 6 inches of snow this morning.  Nowhere else in the province!  It's still snowing heavily. I blame the Fords and their need for speed.  They have offended somebody.  If we vote them back in, we get snow all year.

Sauroposeidon and friends 

As a break from photography posts, here are four pretty big vertebrae that swirl in the same thought-space in my head. All are shown to scale, in right lateral view. These are not the biggest sauropod cervical vertebrae–Supersaurus beats them all, and there are vertebrae of Puertasaurus, Alamosaurus, and Futalognkosaurus that rival the big Sauroposeidon vert,

Giant Boulder Smashes Through Italian Farm 

An Italian farmer and his family had an unbelievably close call with some house-sized boulders. You have to see the pictures to believe it. The boulders were dislodged during a landslide on January 21 in Northern Italy. One of the boulders smashed through the barn and courtyard of the farm and cut a swath through their vineyard before stopping near a boulder from some previous rockfall / landslide event. That older boulder is even bigger, about the same size as the entire farmhouse and big [...]

Happy holidays! 

It’s time for a blogging break. I wish you happy holidays, and an exciting new year 2014. May you find twice as many beautiful outcrops as you expected!

Minor Texas earthquakes extend the zone 

The interior is quiet, which is a wonderful temporary relief for the residents.  I hope the new instruments are reducing the location error, because then we can start seeing some structure.  The fluid continues to flow, and I don't think it is possible for a zone to stop under those circumstances.  To give everybody a break, I won't predict anything.