Posts treating: "value"
Monday, 23 May 2016
At the Houston Museum of Natural Science, we understand the value of education, as it is an integral part of our overall mission. The value placed on education extends to museum employees as well. Whether through offering CPR training to … Continue reading
Global climate models (GCM) are designed to simulate earth’s climate over the entire planet, but they have a limitation when it comes to describing local details due to heavy computational demands. There is a nice TED talk by Gavin that explains how climate models work. We need to apply downscaling to compute the local details.
This is one of my periodic mea culpas for a lack of posts. In this case, I have an excuse and I think it's a worthy one. I'm one of a group of people editing a new book on collection storage, due for publication late this year. Or early next year. It's a 650 page monster with 35 chapters and 60 authors and while I've never given birth, I suspect producing this thing will give me some sense of what that's like. When it comes out, buy it. We managed to assemble a fantastic group of authors [...]
Death Valley is a wondrous place at any time of the year, although it can be darned uncomfortable. There is value, however, in understanding the limits of human existence, which is something you indeed experience when the temperature reaches 120 degrees or so. I prefer visiting at times other than summer as a rule, and late winter is often ideal. We've been bringing students out here
Thursday 18th February 2016 Mr Smith's Remarkable MapsTom Sharpe (University of Cardiff) The Studio, M Shed, Princes Rd, Bristol, 6.00pm William Smith's great geological map of Britain, published 200 years ago, was fourteen years in the making and the first of its kind in the world. In the course of making it, Smith developed the fundamental principles of rock sequences - stratigraphy - and recognised the value of fossils in identifying strata. The groundwork for these discoveries [...]
Keynetix is preparing to restart their popular free webinar series. The theme for 2016 is “Transforming Your Geotechnical Data Journey in Small Steps.” The webinars will be every Friday at 12 pm EST for North American Customers and those using ASTM standards, and Friday at 13:00 GMT for other customers using BS/AGS standards.
This Friday, February 12th, the webinar title will be “Maximize the Value of your Geotechnical Data Archive Using HoleBASE SI”. The [...]
I said last time that my new paper on Better ways to evaluate research and researchers proposes a family of Less Wrong Metrics, or LWMs for short, which I think would at least be an improvement on the present ubiquitous use of impact factors and H-indexes. What is an LWM? Let me quote the paper:
I listened to an excellent talk today at the 40th National Weather Association Conference here in Oklahoma City, and It was about a better way of alerting the public to dangerous heat. Yes, you’ve heard of the Heat Index, and it does indeed have value, since the amount of moisture in the air plays a big role on how efficiently your body can cool itself on a hot day. There
The value of a river can be measured in so many ways, and the Tuolumne River here in California is no exception. It has headwaters in the spectacular high country of Yosemite National Park, flows through a gorge as deep as the Grand Canyon, gets trapped for a time in Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, and later in Don Pedro Reservoir. Then the river sort of falls out of public perception. It drains
A new report on proposed potash projects in North America says 9 of the top ten in value are in Saskatchewan, Canada. The other one is Passport Potash's $1.9 billion project in Arizona's Holbrook basin.
A report by Industrial Info Resources tracked 27 active potash projects in North America, with 17 of those being in Saskatchewan, including 9 of the 10 largest. Passport's planned mine would
From the G-I eUpdate Newsletter:
The Geo-Institute is proud to announce the launch of its new website! With the same URL as before, www.geoinstitute.org, the website strives to support and communicate the value and dynamism of the geoprofession, preserve its integrity, and foster its growth.
Our easy-to-use website features efficient navigation and search, making our most popular and newest content easy to find. The appealing, new design allows GEOSTRATA articles to be easily accessed and [...]
Guest post from John Cook, University of Queensland For many years, RealClimate has been educating the public about climate science. The value of climate scientists patiently explaining the science and rebutting misinformation directly with the public cannot be overestimated. When I began investigating this issue, my initial searches led me here, which was invaluable in
By analyzing photos from Flickr, scientists from Iowa State University and the Natural Capital Project have found that lakes in Iowa and Minnesota with the highest water quality also get[...]
The post Photo Analysis Finds Value Of Clean Lakes appeared first on Lake
Fossils are hard to appraise, as the market is so varied.
Here is an example of a Megalodon tooth that is going for $170:
http://theevolutionstore.com/store/megalodon-tooth-fs0103/
Here is another tooth that is larger, but is going for $40:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-3-4-Inch-MEGALODON-Huge-Shark-Tooth-Fossil-/281582784870?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item418fa4516
Why is there a huge price gap?
The difference is that the first link is to a NYC store that sells mostly to
Happy New Year everyone!! The Whirlpool of Life has taken a lengthy hiatus as I finished my most recent book, "How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature." Oh, and I have a day job to contend with too at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. However, the book is now completed and scheduled for release on March 24th. Here's the Amazon page, in case you're interested. So I thought it'd be appropriate to feature a parallel countdown of nature [...]
Laura and I both submitted our theses at the end of September after four years of intense work. We felt there’d be some value (nostalgic to ourselves, hopefully useful to others) in putting together some tips of our own now that we can look back on our achievements. There are loads of brilliantly-written and extremely
Message from the Geology Trusts:-Hopefully you are aware by now that the new Geodiversity Charter for England is going to be launched at a parliamentary briefing on Tuesday 21st October. This is a significant national document that sets out the value of our geodiversity, the need to look after it and practical ways in which all sectors of society can help.WE NEED YOUR HELP THIS WEEK. Although various government ministers will be attending the launch, there has been limited uptake by [...]
Having not blogged for a while I've missed a couple of juicy controversies that others have cheerfully piled into. So I'm left playing catch-up, and feeling like I'm not quite as cutting edge as I used to be. But sometimes even half-warmed leftovers can prove surprisingly tasty, so I decided that it was worth revisiting both stories in a pair of posts.Controversy #1 relates to a paper published in Science by Ben Minteer and colleagues back in April (see what I mean about being late to the [...]
Back when I was in grad school, I discussed the value of a masters' degree as an investment. Now I'm more than 5 years out from grad school. Was it worth taking 2 years out of my life? Did I recoup the salary I'd missed while I was living on a poverty-level TA/RA?
As I'd suggested in that old post, the value of a Masters degree isn't that easy to quantify.
I didn't get a big salary bump after
We used to tell our Japanese friends that certain things were Better in Britain. One such myth we accidentally perpetuated was the value of stricter planning regulations. Japanese cities are, on the whole, an awful jumble of buildings. Not so in the UK, we told our friends. We clearly misunderstood completely. During our decade long sojourn overseas, Londinium has been reinventing itself as