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My previous post used the occasion of the 17 October 2024 wildfire in the Oakland Hills to explore larger themes. It seemed unseemly to mention that I looked forward to visiting the burn area. But I waited for a good time and did that. Scientists [...]
I happened to be reading back over Tutorial 34: How to document a specimen, when something caught my eye in the example photo we used of how to capture the label and appropriately positioned scalebar along with the specimen: Somehow, when I wrote [...]
Distinct regions are seeing repeated heat waves so extreme, they cannot be explained by climate
There is PhD position with the Ngā Ngaru Wakapuke program in “Understanding earthquake sequences using near- and on-fault paleoseismology on the western Marlborough Fault System”. To work with leading paleoseismologists from VUW (J Howarth) [...]
Dinosaurs likely originated in the Middle Triassic and the first unequivocal dinosaur fossils are known from the late Carnian. The main environmental changes that occurred at the very end of the Triassic period paved the way for the early radiation [...]
I looked at the weather and said - Blah. The cold blob coming down in Canada has no legs and is being diverted by warm air from the south. The UK just has huge cyclones. Nothing exciting.The Arctic is in [...]
This picture is of a polished fusulinida fossils. They existed during
the Carboniferous period. The fossils were found in Carnic Alps,
Austria.
Fossil was on display at the Natural
History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) on [...]
Those spears of tropical plumes are dying, and we are back to "Freeze Britannia, Britannia rules the cold".Canada is just getting a slow creep of cold, not much. Greenland has a while to go before it goes white [...]
Today's new ELI is ‘An Element of fun; an entertaining way to teach Mendeleev's Periodic Table of elements'This Earthlearningidea can fix in the mind of young students an image of the Periodic Table and [...]