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Thursday, 03 March 2016

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Peering into Chile’s Quizapu Volcano 

State of the Planet [2016-03-03 23:16:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info

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In their quest to unravel the physical and chemical processes controlling volcanic eruptions, Einat Lev and colleagues headed to South America and the volcanoes of

Photo needed for my book: Blue Lake, near Washington Pass 

Northwest Geology Field Trips [2014-12-22 01:15:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info

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Does anyone have a high resolution photo of Blue Lake, near Washington Pass? I’m on the quest for what I hope is the final missing image for Geology Underfoot in Western Washington. If you can provide me with a jpg or tiff, at least 1 MB, drop me a note.  tuckerd   @  geol  . wwu.   

Door 21: Four non geologists who should totally be geologists 

Geological Society of London blog [2014-12-21 11:00:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
In our quest to seek out those who should totally be geologists, we may have invented a new game….We’re calling it Geological Nominative Determinism. This may be a little clunky, so please suggest alternatives below. Dr Ann T Klein Dr … Continue reading

I Have Calamine Lotion In My Medicine Cabinet, But I Am Still Scratching … 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [2014-10-08 19:02:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info

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Hello out there in Dinosaur Land!  I continue on my quest to find the surface of my Flexicalymene.  I know it’s got to be here somewhere … then there’s all those other little trilobites waiting to be cleaned.  I have outlined a number of areas which I believe are partial or possibly complete trilobites.  There

Digging Eastern Utah’s Dinosaur Logjam 

Laelaps [2014-06-04 05:39:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info
Dinosaurs are supposed to be remote. Documentaries and paleontological memoirs revel in the quest to dig them out

BBC: Saudi Arabia to Take Delivery of Nuclear Weapons on Order if Iran Gets the Bomb 

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-11-08 06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will, a variety of sources have told BBC Newsnight. While the kingdom's quest has often been set in the context of countering Iran's atomic programme, it is now possible that the Saudis might be able to deploy such devices more quickly than the Islamic republic. Earlier this year,

Last Common Ancestor of Neandertals and Modern Humans Still Yet to be Found 

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-10-23 22:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info
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The search for a common ancestor linking modern humans with the Neanderthals who lived in Europe thousands of years ago has been a compelling subject for research. But a new study suggests the quest isn't nearly complete. The researchers, using quantitative methods focused on the shape of dental fossils, find that none of the usual suspects fits the expected profile of an ancestor

Perchlorates May be Universal Across the Martian Surface 

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-09-27 22:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
The quest for evidence of life on Mars could be more difficult than scientists previously thought. A scientific paper published today details the investigation of a chemical in the Martian soil that interferes with the techniques used by the Curiosity rover to test for traces of life. The chemical causes the evidence to burn away during the tests. In search of clues to life's presence on

What Makes a Good Proposal? Reflections on Funding for Structural Geology & Tectonics Research in Three Nations 

Speaking of Geoscience [2013-07-28 14:00:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (760 visits) info
Christie Rowe, McGill University The quest for funding: it is a constant concern, often a source of unease. This is a unique aspect of academic life – we have the opportunity, and the burden, of funding our own research programs. Some of us raise all or part of our own salaries, as well as those of our coworkers.

Quest For Oil 

Geology.com News [2013-06-18 19:35:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
Energy companies are currently challenged to find enough skilled workers to fill open positions. Maersk has developed a digital game – “Quest for Oil” – to stimulate interest in energy

Strange Bedfellows in the Climate Change Saga: The Quest for the Arctic Wolf 

State of the Planet [2013-06-17 18:30:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (96 visits) info
Shahid Naeem, PhD Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Truckers and non-truckers on the great Dalton Highway When you travel northbound on Alaska’s famous Dalton Highway heading toward the Arctic Sea, the northern edge of the world, you carry a radio to communicate with the enormous

Wind turbines versus wildlife 

Wry Heat [2013-01-08 15:44:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
In our quest to find greener sources of energy, what at first seems like a good idea leads to some not-so-green unintended consequences. Such is the case with wind turbines and wind farms. In an article in The Spectator (a British publication, not the American Spectator), zoologist Clive Hambler notes: “Wind turbines only last for

MIT’s Solar Energy Funnel 

Geology.com News [2012-12-04 00:55:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
“The quest to harness a broader spectrum of sunlight’s energy to produce electricity has taken a radically new turn, with the proposal of a “solar energy funnel” that takes advantage of materials under elastic strain.” Quote from the MIT press

Quest for Conservation: New Sugar Land exhibit teaches smart energy use 

BEYONDbones [2012-09-12 21:14:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (47 visits) info
Think of it as mission possible. A new exhibition is set to hit HMNS Sugar Land Sept. 21 that aims to teach patrons all about energy — where we come from, how we use it, and how we can use … Continue reading

China Energy Report 

Geology.com News [2012-09-05 04:33:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (48 visits) info
“China is the world’s most populous country and has a rapidly growing economy, which has driven the country’s high overall energy demand and the quest for securing energy resources. [...] China is the world’s second largest oil consumer behind the United States, and the largest global energy consumer.” Quoted from the Energy Information

Quest for Marble 

About Geology [2012-06-15 01:46:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info
I spent today rambling around the Sierra Nevada foothills collecting rocks for an educational collection that I'm putting together. The rock that inspired the outing is marble. Unlike some states, California doesn't have a lot of limerocks, although there are bodies of limestone and marble scattered all around. When I first visited the historic mining town of Columbia and its remarkable karrenfeld, I fell in love with its marble. It was a pleasure to visit a roadcut today and harvest a few [...]

The Shock of the New 

State of the Planet [2011-12-15 22:06:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a host of naturalist-explorers traveled around the globe in a quest to identify new species. We interview science writer Richard Conniff, who evokes this grand age of discovery in The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth, just released in

Heinrich’s quest for an explanation 

drip | david’s really interesting pages... [2011-11-12 11:56:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (33 visits) info
I doubt I have to point any of my regular guests over to Heinrich’s blog, but… better safe than sorry. There’s an increasing quality of science writing among paleontologists and this series promises to continue raising the bar. The passion and spirit of exploration come across as clear as the technical explanations, thanks in part

Genin et al.; digesting static images 

drip | david’s really interesting pages... [2011-09-15 12:02:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info
In my quest to truly understand gaits, I’ve dove into the study Biomechanics of locomotion in Asian elephants by Genin, Willems, Cavagna, Lair & Heglund. The graphic below is from the paper, and you can see that they are interested in calculating the forces on each of the joints. While that is interesting, I’m after

Why does a compass point north? A mystery at the heart of the story of science (book review) 

Highly Allochthonous [2011-06-10 19:18:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (29 visits) info
Strange as it might seem, I’m finding North Pole, South Pole, paleomagnetist Gillian Turner’s newly published account of “the epic quest to solve the great mystery of Earth’s magnetism”, a difficult book to review. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy … Continue reading
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