When I had my very first annual review, my manager asked where I wanted to go with my career. I had no idea: at the time, I was just focused on learning everything I could about the basics of fieldwork, analysis of results, and writing reports. I'd never thought of myself as particularly ambitious, but as my career gained steam, I did develop Ideas about where I'd like to end up.
I'd like to
Had a chance today to look through the proceedings of the upcoming conference Heap Leach Solutions 2014 scheduled in Lima, Peru for November 10 through the 13th, 2014. The paper that caught my eye and caused [...]
A farewell note to a former coworker, inspired by John Rennie at PLOS: As trained geophysicists, we’ve kept the office mercifully zombie-free since the Apocalypse, even maintaining a rigorous field [...]
At the two-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, high school students in New York City posed questions about life during and after a catastrophe to a very particular group of experts – high school students [...]
History of Geology [16:15:30]
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May 8, 1733 two workers, Anders Halfwarder and Olof Sigräfwer, reported excited to superintendent Johan Gråberg, who was inspecting the quarry of Nybro near the village of Wamlingebo (Gotland, Sweden), a [...]
We are high mountain people, hunters and artists,
Our view from this base camp is brilliant and clear.
Cold, thin air sweeps the rocky plateau;
You need a strong heart to live
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [14:00:01]
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Das Umweltbildungszentraum KTB steht für: Kontinentale TiefBohrung in Bayern Geowissenschaftler
Here are four folds from the Potomac Terrane (or maybe an “exotic unit” that looks like the Potomac Terrane, butted up against the Potomac Terrane) that I saw on the 2014 Virginia Geological Field [...]
Y una vez más, nos complace traer por aquí al gran Alberto Montt, que publicó recientemente en su blog esta genial viñeta sobre los impedimentos que ponen los padres para salir con la gente
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [10:21:00]
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Las plumas parecían ser una característica diagnóstica de las aves pero hoy en día se sabe que evolucionaron en formas mucho más basales de dinosaurios. Y por lo que sabemos de las aves, las plumas [...]
The Mannen rockslide in Norway continues to actively deform but has not, as yet, failed. There continues to be a great deal of interest in Norway in this event, putting the monitoring team under great
China Losing Its Stranglehold on Rare EarthsVox A Short History of Rare Earth ProductionGeology.com New Dinosaur: 85 Feet Long, 65 TonsNational Science Foundation Protecting the Great Barrier ReefBBC [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [02:30:00]
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While visiting the Gallery of Natural History at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw fossil specimen (AHS-NH#9854) Clypeus plotii (Leske, [...]
Did you know that the US Army set up camp on the banks of Buffalo Bayou — where Houston’s beloved Memorial Park is today? Yes, Camp Logan was built as an emergency training center in World War I built in [...]
“California has increasingly relied on natural gas and nonhydro renewables to meet growing demand and to compensate for recent losses in nuclear and hydropower.” Quote from the Energy Information [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:33:44]
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Yesterday (30-October-2014) there was a minor earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes peninsula in Krýsuvík volcano. Around 30 earthquakes where recorded in this swarm. The earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes [...]
Halloween wirft seine langen Schatten voraus, und was ist da besser als ein geschnitzter Kürbiskopf? Wie wäre es mit einem geheimnisvoll schwebenden Kürbiskopf? Und weil hier natürlich alles mit [...]
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society has signed an agreement with Uruguay’s Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria to open an IRI office outside of Montevideo and to expand [...]
"¡El Brontosaurus es lo que más quiero! ¡Quiero al Brontosaurus incluso más que a ti, Papi!"MÁS TARDE... "Hemos reclasificado la especie como Apatosaurus. Brontosaurus nunca existió."Ya hemos visto [...]
Shark Family Tree © Ray Troll
Meckel (Oct 17, 1781 - Oct 31, 1833) was a German anatomist who first described the embryonic cartilage (now called Meckel's cartilage) that ossifies to form part of the [...]
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [14:04:00]
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Where am I? what's all that weird orange rock?! maybe I was out too long.Plants and Rocks is back from vacation, with one more geo-challenge to share. But I had to wait until today [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:44]
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After four fascinating instalments in the known unknowns series we have (sadly) come to the final post. Since the series began in September we have explored the top questions that still remain unanswered when [...]
Me creí grande
Me crecí. Me sentí diferente, más inteligente, más hábil. Mejor. Mejor que los demás. Y me volví un imbécil.
Me lo creí, sí, y me puse en un pedestal, mirando desde arriba, con [...]
After a long, long hiatus, I'll be slowly getting back to blogging, hopefully more on palaeo, R and data analyses (and the occasional scribbles and doodles - I won't call them palaeoart!).I shan't go into [...]
Geology for Global Development [10:00:30]
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Fiesta at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Guatemala is a country with many volcanic hazards, as shown in some of the previous images in this series, but also a country rich in culture and traditions. The image above [...]
The San Andreas fault at Cajon Wash and Lone Pine Canyon at the eastern end of the San Gabriel Mountains
Oh how I love flying. I don't get all that many chances to do it, and flying on days with clear weather [...]
We haven’t had a paleobotanical fossil of the week for awhile, so here are a couple of nice seed casts from the Upper Carboniferous Massillon Sandstone exposed near Youngstown, Ohio. They fall within the [...]
Today we completed a three-day EduMine webcast on Mine Water Management. Some thirty people from all over the world joined in. Maybe you can join us next time we do this. But for now, here are a few [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [01:34:56]
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davisclipper.com An earthquake is due to hit in Davis and Salt Lake counties sometime between Nov. 3-6 and the National Guard, Davis Hospital and Medical Center, fire departments and utilities are already [...]
Tierra de Dinosaurios [00:12:00]
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El miércoles 12 de noviembre a las 19:00 horas en el E.T.S de Ingenieros de Minas y Energía (Madrid), tendrá lugar la presentación del libro póstumo de la paleontóloga Nieves López Martínez titulado [...]