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You can take the boy out of politics, but you can’t take the politics out of the boy — at least, not if you’re former ACT party leader Rodney Hide. In my Daily Blog column this week, I take a look at Rodney’s latest dalliance with climate denial, and wonder why it is that the [...]
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NASA art rendering of the systems affectedby space weather: aircraft, satellites, astronauts,and the earthSource: NASA here gives "fun facts" about the sunLet me preface this with a disclaimer: I took a graduate level course in "Electricity and Magnetism" from one of the most fearsome texts ever inflicted on a student, the infamous "Jackson's E and M." It's still used to this day, and everyone that I've met has agreed with me on the difficulty.***See footnote! I not only took it once (in
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Laura Nielsen for Frontier Scientists The ozone hole is a problem which plagues the skies above Antarctica. Yet in 2011, Arctic skies experienced the most severe ozone depletion ever measured in the north. The reasons why are now explained in a paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres headed by lead author Susan E. Strahan, an atmospheric scientists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Understanding ozone loss begins with a look at the ozone layer. Located high […]
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In this Geological Quote I was reading through a book on chaos theory and geology and I just found this line funny."With the help of a technical device called a return map which we shall not attempt to describe..."i.e., yea, we don't know what it is either.Goodings, D., 1991, Chaos in a time series, in Middleton, G.V., Ed., Nonlinear dynamics, choas and fractals with applications to geological systems,Short Course Notes, V. 9: Toronto, Ontario, Geological Association of Canada, p. 35-46.You can
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By Kelly Normally I might put a piece like this as a ‘Not-so-serious-Sunday‘ post. But Chris Hadfield‘s recent recording from his studio in space is worth featuring mid week. His rendition of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ has gone viral, with … Continue reading →
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Looking west from Lava Butte toward the Cascade crest. Three Sisters are to the right on the horizon, and Mount Bachelor to the left. The late-stage lava flow, which occurred after the cinder eruption, is visible at the foot of the peak. A version run through Paint.Net's autolevel routine can be viewed here.Photo unmodified. August 21, 2011. FlashEarth location.
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I've been thinking about changing things around here.For starters - I consider myself a rockhound. Being such it only logical I should change my profile picture to reflect that. So here's some pictures I've been playing around with.My 1st choice is with a dalmatian looking dog made from obsidian just simply because it looks like a hound to me. My second choice is this one which is suppose to be a wolf but didn't look too much like a wolf to me but more like a dog. […]
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In a career that has already spanned the roles of farmer and corporate sustainability professional with ARAMARK; current MPA in Environmental Science and Policy (MPA-ESP) student Kendall Singleton knows that her niche in the sustainability sector lies in designing and implementing sustainable food systems. As her time in the MPA-ESP program comes to a close, Kendall will apply her project management experience and her quantitative and analytical skills to whatever role lies in store.
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Andy Juhl and Craig Aumack, microbiologists from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, are spending a month in Barrow, Alaska studying algae in and below sea ice, and how our warming climate may impact these important organisms. They’re investigating the factors that control the growth of algae inside of sea ice, how these algal communities are [...]
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Evelyn Mervine wrote a new post, Weekly Geology Picture(s) #1: Chromitite in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa , on the site Georneys So, I have been quite negligent recently and missed both last week's and this week's Monday Geology Picture. My apologies for that! Life has been very busy with things such as writing a paper and preparing for […]
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Ed Pongracz commented on the post, A very dangerous reservoir bank landslide in China, on the site The Landslide Blog With respect to older (inactive) failures, it doesn't look like the other side of the reservoir is much better. Yikes.
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A Soyuz capsule carrying Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn landed safely in Kazhakstan after 146 days in space.
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mots motsfo commented on the post, How to escape a landslide, on the site The Landslide Blog googling the location i was surprised to see Redoubt Lake on Baranof Island in the Southeast of Alaska. Since i live on Cook Inlet across from Redoubt volcano i expected it to be near me. We do have some gnarly […]
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The Lamont Icepod team is a blended mix of engineers and scientists learning from each other through the design and testing of this new instrument. With a range of talents and backgrounds, the project mixes: seasoned field workers with those new to field work; experienced instrument developers with those newly learning this end of engineering; [...]
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This was initially posted at: http://blogs.egu.eu/palaeoblog/?p=600 Conserving our world’s biodiversity is currently one of the biggest challenges we face. I wrote a post recently about some of the issues palaeontologists face when trying to make our science relative to current conservation … Continue reading →
