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A Few More Environmental Thoughts
A few thoughts from Michael Crichton about Environmentalism as a "religion" (in that it is based upon emotions).[Important Note: Just because you disagree with an Environmentalist, that doesn't mean that you are anti-Environment or that you want polluted air, water, or food. Disagreement is not hate.] Listen carefully...
Suggestions for Physical Geology Lab Final
Be familiar with:Cleavage - which minerals have it, which don't.Igneous texturesMetamorphic texturesSedimentary texturesLaw of "v"s regarding topo maps.More too come......
A few notes for Exam III, Environmental Science
Sorry for the delay, I was in Austin, TX for job training Wed. PM - Sat. AM..Important concepts to remember - Orographic Effect and Rain Shadow Effect.Plate Tectonics - Rift (Divergent) Zones, Subduction (Convergent) Zones, Transform Fault Zones, Isostacy, Difference between Continental crust and Oceanic crust.In Subduction zones, the melting...
The Real Threats to Coral Atolls
Blaming human-caused global warming for damage to coral reefs is an exercise in laziness. Here is an in-depth article about real threats to coral reefs, which when left alone, have survived past episodes of warming and cooling, of sea level rise and fall.[Click on the title for more info.]...
To the Physical Geology Lab Class...
Here are some needed links for your take-home exam.My home page: http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~jsummero/Temporary Assignment Page: http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~jsummero/TempAssignmentPage.htmlQuestions: http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~jsummero/PhysicalGeologyLabMidterm09.docMy Physical Geology webpage, scroll down for Power Point notes related to Minerals, Igneous Rocks, and Sedimentary Rocks: http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~jsummero/PhysicalGeology2009.htmSorry for missing class, by the time we were finished with my son's doctor visit, for the...
To the Environmental Science Class
Today I attempted to update the website from the Alpharetta campus, but as they didn't have the Microsoft FrontPage program, I was unable to do so. Maybe I will try again tomorrow (Saturday), so perhaps check again tomorrow afternoon....
Earth Learning Idea
Our new Earthlearningidea is 'Innocent until proven guilty; using forensic geoscience to solve the crime' This activity can be included in any lesson where problem-solving skills are required. It is adaptable to local conditions - local samples of soil, sand or rocks can be used. Also local suspects e.g....
Produced by Claire L. Evans for Darwin 200By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into 60 seconds, the video is a self-contained timepiece. Like a specialized clock, it gives a sense of perspective. Everything — from the formation of the Earth, to the Cambrian Explosion, to the evolution of mice and squirrels — is...
Physical weathering - cracking apart
This is our latest ELI+ activity 'Cracking apart; simulating the weathering of rocks in a desert environment' Ask pupils to discuss situations where materials expand in the heat and contract in the cold out of doors. Examples might include steel bridges, or concrete roads; in both cases, expansion joints...
Have you tried this Earthlearningidea? 'What was it like to be there? - bringing a fossil to life'What sort of place was the animal shown in the photo living in? It had feet, so must have lived on land and there must have been other animals around for it to...
We shall be publishing new Earthlearningideas every two weeks throughout 2010. Some of these activities will require the use of some basic school laboratory equipment and some will include more abstract ideas than we have considered in the past. We will label these activities ELI+.We are launching the new activities...
Have you tried this Earthlearningidea? Click here to download the free activity.Many people don‘t realise that, to build our buildings, to construct transport links and to make dams and reservoirs, we have to extract millions of tonnes of material from the ground — and that this comes from quarries. Most...
Clastic Detritus
I received an e-mail from a reader asking my opinion about a rock they found and, as in previous occasions (e.g., here and here), I figured it would make a good Geopuzzle. I also recommend checking out Andrew Alden’s resources for identifying rocks over at About.com. This one was found near...
President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2011: Geoscience Highlights
As Lee Allison over at Arizona Geology blog pointed out earlier today, here is the American Geological Institute’s (AGI) summary of geoscience-related aspects in the federal budget request for fiscal year 2011. I’m going to repost it here just in case people don’t see it at Lee’s blog: President Obama released...
Anthropogenic avulsion in the Huang He (Yellow River) delta
The term ‘avulsion’ describes the process of natural channels abruptly changing course. This process is typical in sedimentary systems in which the dispersal pattern is distributive, or spreading out — as in deltas, alluvial fans, and submarine fans. To put it another way, avulsion is one of the processes that...
Geologic Art Exhibit: Geo Sapiens
Last week I received an e-mail about a recent exhibit showcasing art inspired by Earth science. It was at the Two Wall Gallery in Washington state in November 2009 and called “Geo Sapiens”. You can read all about the event on this website and view the art as well as...
Friday Field Foto #102: Cross-bedded pebbly sandstone in Patagonia
This week’s Friday Field Foto is from the Magallanes Basin in Patagonia — an area from which I’ve shown lots of photos. However, this is not from the turbidite strata that I focused my work on; rather it is from the overlying shallow-marine and deltaic units. I’ll post more about these...
Sand: The Neverending Story — Q&A with author Michael Welland
This post is the second of two posts devoted to the book ‘Sand: The Neverending Story’ by Michael Welland (check out the first post, my review of ‘Sand’ from yesterday). Below is a Q&A with author Michael Welland and then additional Q&A in the comment thread between Michael and my readers....
cryology and co.
What if climate change is the greatest hoax ever archieved:from Atheist Movies...
Snow across Great Britain... anyway - Europe is still inhabited......
On images of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter -MRO- a british research team has discovered possible "spillway" of ancient martian lakes.The pits in the equatorial region of Ares Vallis were first explained as remains of evaporating water ice, but the discovered channels seems to connect different basins, much more like thermokarst-...
Did volcanoes kill the Mammoth?
The cause(s) of the Pleistocene Megafauna extinction is(are) still unclear. Various explanations were proposed, ranging from human activity (hunting or disease spreading) to climate change or sea level rise, and since the last year, a possible extraterrestrial impact. But an important factor until now was less considered - volcanism. Volcanoes...
Carl Sagan Reflects:...
Did the Pleistocene Megafauna and Dinosaurs Live at the Same Time?
A national science foundation is a public organization with the task to perform and promote research activities and scientific knowledge and its applications in our daily live.If you had to promote earth science and biology, what would you do?Would you finance the conservation of one of the largest dinosaur ichnosites...
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Just One Example of How Too Much Government = Few Jobs
By way of Moonbattery;I found this New York Times business blog post, by Jay Goltz, a Chicago-area owner of five small businesses, totalling 100+ jobs.I have long believed that in order to be a better employee, one needs to understand the viewpoint of (and pressures on) a business owner/boss. ...
Thursday Videos - A Little Flawed, But a Laudible Effort
It is a little too obvious that she is reading from a written statement and the background noise is distracting. But I would give DeeDee a "B" for her efforts at being informed and not caught up in the "free bread and circuses". At least she is not using...
22 Different Drivers in the Driver's Seat
[Updated to add another driver...Soot and other particulates.]Climate Drivers are those inputs (influences) that affect the Earth's weather and climate, all are of different magnitudes and some (especially the first four) are on different cycles (or are subject to random events). Some of these cycles and drivers may exaggerate each...
A Glaring Case of Media Bias...Against a Black Female Soldier?
I had never heard of Shoshana Johnson, an Army cook that was shot in both legs and captured in the same firefight as Jessica Lynch. After spending 22 days as an Iraqi POW, she was somehow overlooked by the MSM in favor of Jessica.In a convoy that was caught...
By way of a Facebook post, on the Big Journalism blog, Kyle-Anne Shiver gives a great accounting of who George Soros is and what he has been up to the last few decades.For those that pay attention to politics, many of us recognize that people with billions of dollars at...
About Those Himalayan Alpine Glaciers...
from NewsBusters: "IPCC Scientist: Fake Data Used To Put Pressure On World Leaders", go read the above-linked article and the links within it.Basically, if you haven't heard about this on the MSM or read about it in the paper, for the last week or so, there have been revelations -...
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The Other California: Be a Geotripper Geoblogger for a Day!
Mt. Shasta from the summit of Little Mt. Hoffman on the Medicine Lake HighlandYour host in the exploration of the Other California has been to a lot of places, but he hasn't been everywhere, and he didn't have a decent camera for most of his life, so he knows...
The Other California: Chaos! And Jumbles Aren't Always Word Puzzles.
Continuing our exploration of the "Other California", those places in the state that don't always show up on the postcards...We are in Lassen Volcanic National Park, a place that is on all the postcards, but the park receives roughly a tenth the visitation of a place like Yosemite, somewhere around...
NSF Geophysicists Blogging from Haiti
Photo from NSF Geophysicists in HaitiI'm channeling Lee at Arizona Geology, but not all of our readers overlap, I'm sure. A team of NSF geophysicists is on the ground in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, doing some research on ground movements related to the horrific earthquake a few weeks ago. They are...
The Other California: Lassen Peak, A Volcanic Afterthought...
Getting back to our exploration of the "Other California", those places in our wonderful state that don't always show up on the postcards, and aren't the usual tourist destinations. I break my own rules every so often, and end up visiting a popular or well-known place, but only to emphasize...
NPS Web Page Chronicles Yosemite Valley Rock Falls
Via Yosemite.blog.com, here is a link to a new web page on the rockfall history of Yosemite Valley. Besides a report on rockfalls in 2009 (there were 52), the page includes a wealth of links to other resources about mass wasting phenomena in the region. The map above chronicles the...
The Geologist was Crying Inside....
First, a big shout-out to all the geoblogs out there who provided such first-rate coverage of the Haiti Earthquake over the last few weeks. I appreciate Chris at Highly Allochthonous and Stratigraphy.net for the feeds that got all the information in one place. I was participating in a community symposium...
About.com Geology
Books: Sand by Michael Welland
Sand: The Never-Ending Story is not a big book, but it's huge in scope despite the seeming simplicity of its title. Sand goes into geology, of course—sand is the iconic sediment at the heart of the rock cycle, eponym of sandstone, builder of beaches and the stuff of dunes. But...
Truly Ancient Forests, Truly Endangered
For many years I've wished I could visit the remarkable fossil localities of the Canadian Arctic. On Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg islands, for instance, are found truly ancient forests, going back 45 million years, that are very lightly fossilized or even pristine. Tree trunks from the Eocene can be chainsawed...
Last week the Hubble telescope looked at an odd-looking streak discovered by a sky survey that was hunting Earth-threatening asteroids. This is what it found: a cloud of rocky debris that appears to be from a very recent high-speed collision of two small asteroids. The bright dot in this image...
Quake Awareness Month Is Every Month
Missouri is starting to celebrate Earthquake Awareness Month today. This is good, because outside the big tectonic disruptions along the west coast, Missouri is the most earthquake-prone part of the USA. Earthquake Awareness Month is not like other special months; it's different in different places. California, Hawaii and Oregon do it...
Travertine is not just a stone used to line elegant bathrooms; it's a geological curiosity—a renewable rock resource. You'll also find it in many different settings, telling a different story in each one. So come visit this new gallery of annotated pictures and get into travertine in more depth. You'll...
Recently at About.com, we added a feature that lets you submit photos, along with the stories that go with them. People here are using them for things like pictures from the Phoenix Zoo or cross-stitch projects. Naturally, I want to use them so you can show off your favorite rocks....
Oakland Geology
Recently I visited some of the knockers in the steep hillside east and south of Mountain View Cemetery. These three are chert of deep-sea origin; the middle photo best shows its typical “ribbon” bedding. This area borders the steep gorge of Moraga Canyon and harbors a number of deer and turkeys,...
As you walk up to Chabot Dam the valley carved by San Leandro Creek opens up below, and it’s quite impressive (click photo for bigger version): At the top, the dam is buttressed against a ridge of the volcanic rock of Leona Quarry. Before the dam was built, there must have...
Old-fashioned water filtration
On the path up to Chabot Dam, you pass this row of big tanks (click for big version). They were used to filter the water from Lake Chabot reservoir, and they’re still filled with fine sand plus, I suppose, the decades’ worth of slime and crap they kept out of Oaklanders’...
The authorities have released new tsunami inundation maps, one of which includes Oakland: Click it for the 2200×2200 version that I created just for Oakland. There is no one tsunami that will wash over this much of the city; it’s a composite of a bunch of different possible tsunamis. In general, Oakland...
As you go east along the south shore of Lake Chabot, the churned, oatmeal-colored volcanic rocks of the Leona Rhyolite give way to shale of the Knoxville Formation. The crust-building activity that created the Coast Range Ophiolite, of which the volcanic rocks of the Leona Quarry are the uppermost member,...
Lake Chabot is a reservoir, but geologists still agree with laypeople that it qualifies as a lake. That said, reservoirs differ from most lakes. They have steep banks and deep middles. This gives them a greater variety of habitats. They have jagged planforms on the map because they intrude up every...
The Lost Geologist
Today in the lab I finally finished the thin-sections that I will be investigating as part of my Diploma thesis. I gave them their final touch with a mesh 1200 powder. There is a simple polarisation microscope in the lab allow a quick quality check. I took an ordinary digital...
Geoblog: Piedras en los bolsillos
A good friend mine from Peru working on environmental geology and geologic hazards is running a blog on her research. All posts are related to the research, especially land slides in all their forms, focused in the larger Lima region. Lots of insightful images and maps complement her posts. Take...
Gunnar from the Amphibol-Blog has turned my attention to a new, German Geoblog. I am happy to mention it here. The number of German geology related blogs is rather low. The author, a geophysics student, calls him- or herself Stryke and writes exclusively in German on a variety of issues....
Arsenic, Geology and Public Health
I am by no means an Environmental Geologist nor am I particularly active on the side of Medical or Forensic Geology. Nevertheless I discovered much to my pleasure the fascinating thematical width of geology. Specialising myself in Economic Geology and Carbonate Sedimentology has lead me to consider human health effects...
Without noticing it on time the two year anniversary of my blog passed yesterday on January 7th. The last two years saw 238 blog posts, with the first year of blogging more active than the 2nd which I blame on being more busy with my thesis related works. I didn't...
The holiday season is very near and christmas just waiting around the corner. December has been pretty quiet here and will most likely continue to be so for the rest of 2009. In the year that is now passing I have been and still am very busy with my graduation...
Magma Cum Laude
Quals are over and passed (pending some proposal rewriting and me promising to take a thermodynamics class in the near future). It's nice not having that stress hanging over my head - now I can relax and get some research done! (Not to mention getting back to blogging more often...)...
Looks like I get to host the next episode of Where On Google Earth! Wo(G)E #180 over at Clastic Detritus turned out to be a tricky rotated image of the Farasan Banks, a huge coral reef complex off the coasts of Saudi Arabia and Yemen in the Red Sea. I...
Most of you have probably heard about the earthquake that occurred in Haiti on Tuesday. It's shaping up to be a huge disaster, especially since it occurred in an area that hasn't seen a major earthquake for centuries; when natural disasters haven't occurred within living memory, people become unprepared to...
The biggest bang for your buck
Happy New Year! Having finally beaten the latest installment of the common cold, I'm back to blogging as I get ready for the new semester.Recently there's been a bit of amusement among the geobloggers about an Paddy Power, an Irish betting website that's will take wagers on which volcano will erupt...
And Happy Holidays too, because Christmas ain't the only holiday. (According to Straight No Chaser's "Christmas Can-Can", anyway!) Hope everyone is enjoying good food, friends and family, and staying safe - especially with all this crazy weather!(This and a bunch of other cool backgrounds come from VladStudio. There are lots...
Two years already! (It's a good thing Callan started his blog up before I did, because otherwise I would completely forget to do this. Hope you're having fun in Patagonia, Callan!)Things have changed quite a bit for me since I started this blog two years ago. I finished working at...
The Geology News Blog
Geology Links for February 4th, 2010
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for February 4th, 2010: Marcellus Formation – Wikipedia Utah’s Cambrian Life – Evolution and Biogeography of Burgess Shale Type Fossils WNYC – Slideshow: West Side Tunnels OpenGeoscience | Free data | British Geological Survey (BGS) Incidently Shifting the Continental Divide « Free Association Design (F.A.D.) HowStuffWorks "How Fossils Work" Mount St....
Daily Geology Photos – February 4
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 18 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. ...
Geology Links for February 3rd, 2010
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for February 3rd, 2010: USGS: Maps, Imagery, and Publications U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program Stones on Flickr – Photo Sharing! The Geology of Hong Kong (Interactive On-line) The Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm of 2010 marches on : Eruptions Latest Earthquakes in the World – Past 7 days Historical perspective [This Dynamic...
Daily Geology Photos – February 3
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 100 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. ...
Fish Egg Disinfectant Shown to Prevent Transmission of Devastating Fish Disease:
A disinfection solution presently used for salmon eggs also prevents transmission of the virus that causes viral hemorrhagic septicemia or VHS -- one of the most dangerous viral diseases of fish -- in other hatchery-reared fish eggs, according to new U.S. Geological Survey-led research...
Geology Links for February 2nd, 2010
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for February 2nd, 2010: SDSU – Department of Geological Sciences – Google Earth Tour – Geology Maps and Overlays Scientists: Why Haiti Should Move its Capital -The Haiti Earthquake- Printout – TIME Geologic Resources Inventory Publications Maui Nui – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia How Rocks Are Formed BBC/OU- The World...
Volcanista: a magmalicious blog
So, over the holidays I took a badly needed holiday vacation, and because I like warmth and the tropics, I decided to go to Chicago and hang out with Sweet Machine, Mr Machine, and their most excellent cats. I read books, watched Lost, took naps, cuddled with the kitties, and...
Okay, loyal readers. The holiday is over, the last semester is all tied up, AGU is done, and everything on my list is looking forward to new classes, new publications, new research, and new directions. I cannot guarantee that after running out of things to say on my year-old blog,...
The Literary Review 2009’s shortlist for bad sex writing is now available, complete with excerpts of suggested passages. These are NOT safe for work, of course, but are safe for giggles. I considered excerpting some of my favorite parts, but I have so far resisted making the leap to all-out...
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to remember and memorialize people killed as a result of anti-transgender hatred. The list of names for 2009 is available here and relisted by Melissa here (in a slightly easier to read format). Liss’s post, Fillyjonk’s post at Shapely Prose,...
A friend alerted me to this article in the Chronicle today. I am super mad! The gist is that students with BMI > 30 have to take an additional fitness class geared towards weight loss, and if they fail to lose enough weight to reach an acceptable BMI, they must...
The geology disaster movie review written by a geologist.
I just saw this: Truthfully, it was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. In terms of the people-plot, it takes that usual disaster-movie cheesiness and ramps it up to a level that is painful but not quite true camp. So I could laugh at it, and so could my...
Dave's Landslide Blog
The woes of the families displaced by the slope failure at the Rivermist Subdivision in San Antonio, Texas have been exacerbated by a new phase of movement. AP Texas News reports that heavy rain has triggered additional cracking of the wall, and the movement of some debris. However,...
The causes of the Shiaolin landslide disaster in Taiwan
The Shiaolin landslide disaster in Taiwan, which occurred during typhoon Morakot last August, has been the source of huge controversy. To recap, the landslide, which occurred during an exceptional rainfall event, wiped out Shiaolin village, killing about 500 people. The controversy centred on two key aspects - first,...
Latest news from the Attabad landslide in Pakistan
The latest news from the site of the Attabad landslide in Hunza, Pakistan, as relayed by the Pamir Times, is somewhat mixed. There is now a very helpful video of the landslide site on Youtube, which gives a proper view of the slide and its deposit from the scarp...
New images of the level of destruction in the Cusco area of Peru
The Spanish language blog El Caminerito has been covering the magnitude of the rainfall, flood and landslide disaster in Cusco, Peru. They have put together a very helpful map showing the locations of serious damage:Ver Cusco en Emergencia en un mapa más grandeThe scale of the disaster, which is...
Earthquake-driven coastal erosion (or a coastal lateral spread) in Haiti
The Discovery Channel has news of a very interesting example of rapid coastal erosion driven by the earthquake in Haiti. The site is at Petit Paradis to the west of Port-au-Prince. Eye-witness reports suggest that the town was struck by a highly localised tsunami in the earthquake, apparently...
On narrow-minded press coverage
Southern Peru has for the last few days suffered extremely heavy rainfall. The Living in Peru blog reports upon the impact for local people in the province of Urubamba, Cusco. This includes10 people killed; 2,000 collapsed houses leaving 10,000 people homeless; and crops, cattle and roads swept...
The Volcanism Blog
New Soufrière Hills image at the NASA Earth Observatory
NASA’s Earth Observatory has been following the Soufrière Hills eruption with a great collection of fascinating images since the volcano saw a resurgence of activity in the autumn of 2009. The latest image is a crystal-clear shot from the MODIS aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite, captured on 31 January 2010 (detail...
Yellowstone quakes not beginning of end of world – Discovery News
It’s good to see that Discovery Channel, where Scary Supervolcano Scenarios are a speciality, is doing its bit to reality-check people who see approaching apocalypse in the current Yellowstone earthquake swarm: Yellowstone is rumbling. We are NOT doomed. The comments are fun: ‘what do I know I’m just a welder’. The latest...
KVERT returns to full service (until 30 April 2010)
It seems that a deal has been struck in Russia to keep the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) fully functioning, at least for the next few months. The following statement was released by KVERT via the VOLCANO discussion list: Scientists of KVERT Project return to the full KVERT operations (the...
Undersea eruption south of Japan caught on video
Fukutoku-Okanoba is a submarine volcano which is part of the Volcano Islands group, which is about 1000 km south of the main Japanese archipelago. Submarine, but only just, for its summit lies a mere 14 metres beneath the surface. This week it has been erupting, the first eruption (or, if...
Looking inside Yellowstone, at the Eruptions blog
Today Dr Klemetti looks inside the structure of the Yellowstone Caldera in a terrifically informative post at Eruptions and explains (among many other things) why the fact that the earthquakes in the current swarm are apparently getting shallower is no big deal. ...
SI/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report 27 January-2 February 2010
Some of the volcanic activity headlines this week: Nyiragongo: probable lava lake activity producing thermal anomalies Tungurahua: roars, rumbles, explosions, lava fountains Gaua: activity intensified, explosions, dark ash plumes, strombolian activity Click on the map for a larger version (1280 x 898 pixels). The Smithsonian Institution/United States Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 27...
PrettyRock.com: Gemology and Faceting blog
We are going to have a St Patrick's Day Party! Saturday March 13, from Noon to 10pm est, right here on the forum! Games, prizes and lots of rock talk!A Post from PrettyRock.com...
Dev and I both have family in the military. My nephew just currently at boot camp for the army. He's going to be a medic. We both worried and so very proud of him!A Post from PrettyRock.com...
Opal Yawah Nuts and a chance to help a friend
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Okay.. first check out this video!http://www.outbackgems.com/Devin/Devin.htmTHIS STONE IS SOLD! Hopefully Dev will share his story about the purchase of the first half of this opal. Devin came home from Tucson one year and told me all about this wonderful opal lady he met. He couldn't say enough nice...
Things that make you go ..hmmmmmmmmm
http://www.firstwaternews.com/feature/718-1-Ice-diamonds-included-diamonds-rough-diamonds-industrial-diamonds-Carol-Besler-de-Grisogono-Nina-Runsdorf-Todd-Reed-De-Beers-So now they aren't included diamonds, but "icy" Now that is some brilliant marketing...A Post from PrettyRock.com...
Announcing the 2010 PrettyRock.com Faceting Competition!
Details here! http://www.prettyrock.com/2010facetingcompetition.htmWe hope you will join in the fun!A Post from PrettyRock.com...
Contest: Guess the number of rocks!
We started this contest at our Halloween Party. Since no one answered correctly, we decided to just keep going until someone wins!The person who correctly guesses the number of rocks in the photo wins! In the case of a more than one correct guess, the winner will be...
Accidental Remediation
Usually I agree with FSP, but I've got a problem with her post from Monday. That is, when she says that if a grad student thinks that an advisor may be leaving,"...you could ask your adviser a direct question about it. Either you will get a non-answer, in which case...
In the past I've had long-term field assignments in very small towns or very depressed areas; places with a minimal selection of places to eat. In those situations, you tend to become a regular fast.It's nice to have people recognize you and know what you're going to order (as much...
My eagle-eyed readers may have noticed a (small) change in the blog yesterday.My miscellany tag was getting more and more prominent, and I’ve been debating adding a tag for all my musings about blogging: the writing process, my concerns about being positively identified, my word clouds...So I finally went through...
I just posted recently about the loss of sciencewomen, and now Brazen Hussy has announced that her blog will be ending in the near future. How depressing.One of the things I liked about Brazen Hussy's blog was her photos of angry birds (check out her "birds" tag). I've thought in...
In environmental consulting, sometimes you work in dicey areas. If you do so, you’re usually hyper-aware of your equipment and keep a close eye on it. I never had anything stolen in that situation.But if you’re working in the middle of nowhere, or you run out for a couple of...
I’m writing this post while I wait for my car to get fixed. I always go to this particular location because it’s convenient and they treat me well. But it’s not in a very, um, nice area.The techs are chattering about a particular customer who just called. She has an...
Landslides under Microscope
I-40 rock slide cleanup to cost up to $10 million.
Engineers have established a $2 million to $10 million plan to clean up a rock slide on Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee line. The state Department of Transportation said unstable rocks will be removed first and then large boulders will be blasted into smaller pieces. Rocks removed from the...
Rock slide problem on Interstate I-40. Video and Pictures.
It could take up to three months to completely clear debris on Interstate 40 after a rock slide early Sunday morning closed the highway in both directions at mile marker 3 in Haywood County, according to officials with the N.C. Department of Transportation. The slide happened about 2 a.m. near...
Mudslide threat in La Canada Flintridge and Glendale. Video.
Los Angeles County authorities said the communities most in danger of being hit by mudslides overnight included Big Tujunga Canyon, La Canada-Flintridge, La Crescenta and Glendale.Authorities were watching the amount of rain that fails, the type of soil it falls on, how saturated the soil becomes and so forth. The...
Video and Photos of Nile Valley landslide near Naches River.
Governor Chris Gregoire declares a state of emergency following the huge Nile Valley landslide. The landslide completely wiped out a section of SR-410, isolating people from their homes. But, that's only half the equation, water is another issue, the Naches River has been diverted from it's original path, flooding homes...
Massive landslide blocks Naches River, Washington, causing residents to evacuate.
A massive landslide about 10 miles west of Naches has closed Highway 410, destroyed a home and diverted the Naches River. Fear of flooding from the river has prompted authorities to begin evacuating residents. Several other homes have been damaged as water from the Naches River found its way around...
Photos of catastrophic landslides in La Trinidad, Philippines.
Dozens of landslides in the rain-soaked mountains of the northern Philippines killed up to 200 people yesterday. The latest calamity brings the total death toll to more than 400 in the Philippines' worst flooding for 40 years. Rescue workers search for victims amid the ruin of a house after...