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The previous article - part of my now lengthy series on gekkotan squamates (see links below) - provided an introduction to the neat and fascinating near-limbless Australasian gekkotans known as the pygopodids. Disclaimer: the group being discussed [...]
Fusion tables. State-Province areas geometry and codes.
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A levee on the Mississippi River near Hamburg, Iowa was breached by water undermining the earth embankment. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working to contain the breach. Residents of Hamburg are evacuating in case the repair does not
“On June 1, 2011, a supercell thunderstorm developed over western Massachusetts. The storm produced an EF3 tornado that cut a 39-mile (63-kilometer) track of destruction across southwest and south-central Massachusetts. Not only did the [...]
Earth, the Goldilocks Planet. Click to view larger.On Saturday I am leaving Woods Hole to spend the summer in Laramie, Wyoming. Between now and then I have a zillion things to do. I pretty much have to work constantly prepping samples in lab, [...]
Beginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much,The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,The first step I say awed me and pleas’d me so much,I have hardly gone [...]
The eruption of Puyehue-Cordón Caulle in Chile is still ongoing, albeit with reduced energy, and is proving to be a very very ashy event indeed. The ash has now crossed the South American continent and is reaching Buenos Aires, Brazil and Paraguay, [...]
FSP has a new post here regarding professional pictures. For professional websites, how professional of a picture do you use? I struggled with this about a year ago when I needed a good picture of myself doing fieldwork for a proposal. My graduate [...]
“What we wanted to do was have sites that are a gradient from fresh water to salt water so that we could investigate these processes of how salt water intrusion impacts freshwater marshes, and how sea level rise impacts both tidal freshwater [...]
Today has been spotted with earthquake swarms in Iceland. This earthquake swarms have not been big so far in both terms of earthquakes and size of the earthquakes. With the biggest earthquakes in South Langjökull volcano (Presthnjúkar). The [...]