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Unidentified Strange Object 

Not only has Rhizosolenia turned out in the water samples collected in the latest CTD cast, but it has company: the cyanobacteria Richelia. The exciting aspect is they are together, coexisting in a intracellular symbiotic

New Specialty Geotechnical Contractor in North America 

There is a new player in the ground engineering and specialty geotechnical construction market in North America...well, sort of. Quanta Subsurface is a collection of (at present) 9 specialty contractors all owned by Quanta Services, a publicly traded EPC company specializing in the Electric Power and Oil and Gas industries. Many of these companies have been around for some time in their various markets, firms like Crux Subsurface. With the formation of Quanta Subsurface, it appears that they [...]

Mapbox updated their mapstyles 

Today I received the newsletter from Mapbox with interesting screenshots of their new mapstyles. The company convinced many users with nice basemap styles already in the past. Now they updated their background mapstyles for webmap usage. Just have a look: All pictures are from Mapbox. In my opinion the new styles fits good for modern map applications. If you’re interested in other background maps, check out this article – Map Compare. If you’re interested in getting more [...]

Linux - Homeless in Google-land 

Inspiration Apple is going nuts in start-up acquisitions, but it is horrible to actually work for them.  That's why they pay these 'aqui-hires' many times more to stay with the company.  They can buy the company but nobody actually has to go work for them. Naturally, this may cause friction with the regular employees who get all the 'company town' perks, because the cost of living is

Historic Pennsylvania Tunnel Reopens with Help From NCFI’s TerraThane Polyurethane Foam 

MOUNT AIRY, NC—A $2 million tunnel construction project on the Great Alleghany Passage (GAP) is reopened to the public with help from a geotechnical polyurethane foam called TerraThane, by US company, NCFI Polyurethanes. The GAP rail-trail is 150 miles of hiking and biking between Cumberland, Md, and Pittsburgh, Pa. created along the former railway line. In Cumberland, the GAP joins the C&O Canal Towpath, creating a continuous 335-mile long trail experience all the way to Washington, [...]

Kleinfelder CEO Resigns, Interim CEO Kevin Pottmeyer Takes Reigns as Company Looks to Accelerate 2020 Strategic Direction Initiatives 

SAN DIEGO, California – Kleinfelder announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Bill Siegel has resigned, effective immediately, to pursue other interests. The Board of Directors has appointed Kevin Pottmeyer as interim CEO while the Board of Director’s conducts a search for a new Chief Executive Officer. “Bill has accomplished a great deal for our company in his time with us,” says Rodger Johnson chair of Kleinfelder’s Board of Directors. “We thank [...]

Moretrench President Arthur B. Corwin, P.E. to Receive Moles Member Award 

Moretrench is very pleased to announce that company President and CEO Arthur B. Corwin, P.E. has been recognized by his fellow Moles with the 2016 Member Award for Outstanding Achievement in Construction, the organization’s top honor. The presentation will take place at the annual awards dinner to be held on January 27, 2016 at the New York Hilton. Mr. Corwin joined specialty geotechnical contractor Moretrench in 1978 and has dedicated his entire career to the growth of the company, [...]

The End is Just the Beginning 

We're coring our last hole of our last site of our last week of expedition 356. Everyone's a little tired and frazzled after two months at sea, away from their family and friends, with only the Pet Wall for company. And pretty soon we'll be putting in at Darwin, celebrating, and then going our separate ways. This might seem like an ending, but for the scientists, this is only the beginning of the expedition. These two months at sea [...]

Handpicked gems meet gold vermeil at Tummino’s Trunk Show 

Native Texan Mirta Tummino discovered her talent for jewelry design while working for a Fortune 500 company in Chicago. Her part-time design and metalsmithing studies at the Lillstreet Art Center quickly became a passion when she started selling her one-of-a-kind designs … Continue reading

Geology Rocks! How I got involved with Occidental Petroleum 

by Tania Campbell I’ve worked as a production geologist for 11 years for Occidental Petroleum, and while that is a long run with one company in the energy industry, it has gone by fast. I remember being introduced to rocks in … Continue reading

I'm not fossilized yet, just resting. 

It's been a while since I've updated the blog but I'm slowly getting a queue built up in the background. My day job as an Project Engineer for a Telecommunications company is taking up some extra time these days. Plus now that the warm weather is back I've been doing some collecting. I've plenty of material to post in the next few months: some new Moroccan Trilobites (and Brachs and Goniatites) that I've recently added to my collection and a large number of fossils from the Lockhovian aged [...]

The Medical Journal of Australia vs Elsevier 

While Mike’s been off having fun at the Royal Society, this has been happening: Lots of feathers flying right now over the situation at the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA). The short, short version is that AMPCo, the company that publishes MJA, made plans to outsource production of the journal, and apparently some sub-editing and

Mine Water Solutions in Extreme Environments – Day 2: Lisa Wade and Les Smith Excell 

Two fine keynote presentations today, the second day of the conference on Mine Water Solutions in Extreme Environments.  First was Lisa Wade, Director of Environment, Goldcorp.  Here is the abstract of her paper, Goldcorp’s Water Stewardship Strategy. Goldcorp recognizes water management as a significant concern shared by the company and the company’s stakeholders. Optimizing water

Understanding Return On Assets And How It Is Used Sageworks Institute 

What’s a company’s management team able to doing with the property accessible to them? The return on assets (ROA) (aka return on complete assets, return on common belongings) is among the most widely used profitability ratios as a result of it’s associated to each revenue margin and asset turnover, and reveals the speed of return […] The post Understanding Return On Assets And How It Is Used Sageworks Institute appeared first on Liberty, Equality, and

Yukon Zinc’s Wolverine Mine Closure to be paid for by the Taxpayer 

Another sad story of underfunded mine closure.  According to this report, Yukon Zinc owes the territorial government $3 million in environmental security.  Now the company is bankrupt and also owing $646 million to hundreds of creditors. The tailings management system is described in a report at this link.  The system is described thus: The milling

Twenty-Page Mining Reports 

A story from the mid-1970s.  A story of the early days of Steffen Robertson and Kirsten, now SRK. Soon after joining the company in the first offices in Johannesburg, Oskar Steffen was faced with a problem.  His clients complained that the Steffen Robertson and Kirsten reports were too long and nobody read them.  This was

Are There No More Sacred Places? Desecration at the Grand Canyon 

The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, close to the proposed site of a desecration. I encourage you to read a story in Smithsonian, found here:  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-can-save-the-grand-canyon-180954329/?no-ist. And remember the name of a corporation: Confluence Partners LLC, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based investment group. This is a company that feels it has the

One for the penguin lovers 

I'm not sure if either of my readers is interested in spending a(nother!) season in a primitive hut with only penguins for company (slight exaggeration, reports indicate it's more Shinjuku station than Scott of the Antarctic), but if not you can always play “guess the relative” with the photos in the job advert instead

Another Christian leader who believes the Bible does not require a young Earth — Justin Taylor 

Justin Taylor is senior vice president of Crossway Books, a theologically conservative Christian publishing company. Crossway is best known as the publisher of the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible, along with the ESV Study Bible, perhaps the most comprehensive theologically conservative study Bible ever produced for a general Christian audience. Justin Taylor believes the Bible.

Year-End Summary of Eastern Earthquakes - Part 2 

In those old days, the company was divided into the "Force", and "Darkness".  You can guess what side I was on - Design and Development.  We lived on debt for new plants, and all that shut down.  Everything when dark when when the 'Factory' took over -- all they were interested in were Soviet production numbers at any cost.  You can see the result with the early destruction of Darlington, and