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Monday, 06 August 2012
As Curiosity’s wheels touch down, science gets rolling
As viewing parties celebrating the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory wound down early Monday morning, 400 scientists – many of them AGU members – were already using their newest tool for investigating the redEXPEDIÇÃO COCÓ
The MRO Grabs A Pic Of Curiosity Descending to Mars!
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [21:36:05]
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This is one amazing picture. Imagine the technology to look at just the right moment from high above Mars, 250 million miles from Earth and grab an image of Curiosity on it’s parachute just about to [...]
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ELI Photo Gallery
Jurassic Forest
Jurassic Forest (Bosque jurásico) es una atracción turística en las cercanías de Edmonton, la capital de la provincia de Alberta (Canadá). Arriba: un Stegosaurus con placas vegetales es el logotipo de [...]Wet Natural Gas Reserves
Drilling in United States shale plays has identified new reserves of wet natural gas. In 2010 over 33 trillion cubic feet of new wet natural gas reserves were identified. This was a 17% increase over the [...]Linksammlung KW 31/2012
Gesammelte Links aus der Kalenderwoche 31/2012. Alles, was ich sonst bei Facebook und Twitter poste, kurzRising Production in the Bakken Formation
Oil and gas production in North Dakota has been rising steadily as the Bakken Formation is being developed. North Dakota is now the #2 oil-producing state and production continues toDaily Geology Photos – August 6
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 33 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos [...]The scale problem for solar and wind generation of electricity
The current eco-fad of trying to produce an ever greater percentage of our electricity from solar and wind has some consequences on land use that are poorly thought out. Robert Bryce, writing in Energy [...]Faculty Profile: Adela Gondek
MS in Sustainability Management professor Adela Gondek has taught at Columbia University for over twenty years, with cross-disciplinary appointments Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, [...]An Australian Jurassic Park?
Rumors are circling that an Australian billionaire wants to create a Jurassic Park. Could it actuallyWhat are these geologists looking at?
Photo by Sarah O. Tune in tomorrow for thePossible Eruption Reported at New Zealand’s Tongariro
I just saw this come across Twitter but there are reports of ash fall near Tongariro in New Zealand (apparently upwards of 5 cm[!] on state highway 46, north of the volcano) along with an unconfirmed report [...]Marcellus Shale: The Top US Gas Play?
The Marcellus Shale (Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland) could overtake the Haynesville Shale (Arkansas, Texas) as the most productive gas shale in the UnitedHow Dangerous is Visiting New Zealand’s White Island?
There has always been a fragile relationship between volcanoes and tourism. Volcanic features are some of the most fascinating in the world – just look at the millions of people who visit Yellowstone or [...]Casuarius
Ho più volte espresso il mio amore appassionato per Casuarius, l'uccello vivente che più di tutti ricorda nella combinazione di caratteristiche morfologiche ed ecologiche, alcuni theropodi non-aviani [...]Dividing up the Brain
Bird brains are wonderful structures. Indeed, “bird-brained” is an unusually poor insult, because the avian brain is one of the most complex seen in vertebrates. “Turtle-brained” [...]The Genus Question — Impact of New Archosaurian Binomina
So, what exactly would happen if — as I suggested both here and mentioned in the comments here — we went down that slippery slope, and distinguished all species as their own unique, equivalent [...]Why I love science.
You see that shadow? That’s the shadow of the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, shortly after touching down on Mars. That shadow is what gave us confirmation that she survived one of the most [...]Patchiness and ecological structure in a Middle Jurassic equatorial crinoid-brachiopod community (Matmor Formation, Callovian, southern Israel) — An abstract submitted to the Geological Society of America for the 2012 annual meeting
Editor’s note: The Wooster Geologists in Israel this spring wrote abstracts for the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, this November. The following is from student [...]Fracking With Propane
The GASFRAC process is described in an article on OilPrice.com. It is a method of hydraulic fracturing that uses a propane based gel instead of water. The method is more costly but has numerous advantages [...]Where peer-review went wrong
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [01:22:54]
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[Note: this post is by Mike. Matt hasn't seen it, may not agree with it, and would probably have advised me not to post it if I'd asked him.] The magic is going out of my love-affair with peer-review. When we [...]
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Life before Man - Part 2
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [21:12:00]
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The New Climate Dice: The Odds Have Shifted to Hot
This year’s Midwest heat wave and some other recent extreme weather events are no fluke of nature, but a consequence of a warming planet, according to an analysis of climate data by NASANASA Mars Rover Curiosity heute gelandet!
Proof you can shower once a year and still get people excited: The Perseid Meteor Shower hits Saturday!
Showering once a year? It works for the Perseid cloud! Each year in mid-August, a stream of debris ejected by the Swift-Tuttle comet, called the Perseid cloud, becomes visible to stargazers — as a meteor [...]Greetings from the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting!
Lakes more sensitive to climate change than landscapes
New research on a globally distributed set of lakes shows that lakes are more sensitive to changes in temperature than are land ecosystems. As organisms respire they produce CO2, an important greenhouse gas. [...]Curiosity Lands Safely on Mars
“NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin [...]Monitoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
“The Chesapeake Bay Program, [...] established a network to monitor changes in nutrients and sediment in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Information from this network is used to help scientists and [...]Sonderposten für Innen: Schiefer “Diamond Grey”
Neuer Sonderposten bei jonastone: Aktuell bieten wir ca. 100m² des seltenen Schiefers "Diamond Grey" zum SonderpreisSmoke in the Black Rock & Smoke Creek Deserts
China Palaeo-art August starts
ART Evolved: Life's Time Capsule [16:06:00]
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The Complete Dinosaur, 2nd edition – a brief review
Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings [15:11:03]
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The original ‘Complete Dinosaur’ book was one of those I never quite got around to getting my hands on. I only really became involved in dinosaur research sometime after it had come out (way back [...]
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Geoprofessional Services Are Not Commodities
GeoEngineers Inc. Principal Geologist and CEO, Kurt Fraese wrote a blog post with the above title. Like many of us in the industry, Mr. Fraese is lamenting over a disturbing trend in commoditization of [...]Imaggeo on Mondays: Sunset on the Black Sea coast
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In the context of human history, few bodies of water are as storied as the Black Sea, located at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Countless cargo ships and frigates have sailed its waters, [...]
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Magnitude 4.4 earthquake between Denmark and Sweden
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This morning there was a magnitude 4.4 earthquake between Denmark and Sweden. This earthquake was felt in Denmark and Sweden. No damage did take place during this earthquake, best to my knowledge. I did not [...]
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Launch Pit Retaining Walls Completed for SR 99 Tunnel in Seattle
Drilled shafts have been installed by Malcolm Drilling to form the secant pile retaining walls to support the 400 ft x 80 ft x 80 ft launch pit for the SR 99 tunnel boring machine on the Alaskan Way Viaduct [...]Enterolasma (Streptolasma) stricta from the Lickling Creek formation
A Kid in a Candy Shop...On the Oregon Coast
From Mars: Curiosity Has Landed!
Woo!!! No one does it like us!Time Management
The climate science community went a bit bonkers last month. People got thin and pale and stressed. The reason? There was a deadline! (as Gavin has already noted) The idea is that, in order to make the jobs of [...]Tropical Storm Ernesto
Tropical Storm Ernesto is slowly moving northwestward towards the Yucatan Peninsula. It is expected to strengthen and reach hurricane force onTop concepts:
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