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Thursday, 28 April 2016

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Neandertaler und moderne Menschen setzten auf unterschiedliche Ernährungsstrategien 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [22:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (207 visits) info
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     Tübinger Forscherin schließt anhand der Zahnabnutzung auf unterschiedliche Verhaltensweisen der beiden Menschenarten Über Hunderttausende von Jahren entwickelte sich die Linie der Neandertaler erfolgreich im westlichen Eurasien und überlebte die stark wechselnden kälteren und milderen Zyklen der Eiszeit. Vor rund 40.000 Jahren, auf dem Höhepunkt der letzten Kaltzeit und der

Learning from El Niño as La Niña Odds Rise 

State of the Planet [21:47:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
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Although El Niño is weakening, its ramifications continue to be felt around the world. Drought and resulting food insecurity is one of the major implications for southeast Asia, eastern and southern Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. Sixty million are in need of emergency relief today, according to the United

CRETACEOUS-JURASSIC EXPOSURES: HARRISON LAKE 

ARCHEA [20:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (104 visits) info
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The Cretaceous-Jurassic exposures near Harrison Lake, British Columbia are an easy two hour drive from Vancouver and another hour or so to our final destination, the unyielding siltstone of the Callovian [...]

Creative conservation: thinking outside the box to protect species in a warming world 

The Contemplative Mammoth [19:56:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (855 visits) info
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Climate change and human activity are going to combine to create new challenges to biodiversity in the coming century. Over the last decade, it’s become increasingly apparent that 20th [...]

Masaya volcano lava lake. Timelapse, HD, 4K, Slow Motion video 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [19:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (273 visits) info
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New Energy Policy Bill with Geoscience Provisions Passes Senate 

Speaking of Geoscience [18:33:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
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Washington, D.C. – The Senate has passed its long anticipated energy policy bill – the first to update energy policy in almost a decade. The bipartisan Energy Policy Modernization Act updates the [...]

Why Did Dad Collect All of This Crap? ~ Thoughts of Mortality 

Fossils and Other Living Things [18:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (615 visits) info
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I seem to be stuck in sand.  I recently wrote about it (Sizing Up Sand, A Grain at a Time), and, now, here’s another post that turns to sand (or ashes?).In my last post, I noted that I had stashed [...]

Faculty Profile: Richard Horsch 

State of the Planet [16:00:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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Teaching in the MSSM program provides faculty member Richard Horsch an opportunity to interact with students who have a passion for protecting the environment and for whom a working knowledge of law and policy [...]

ESP Alumna Joins Climate Leadership Corps 

State of the Planet [15:12:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
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Olivia Owre-Bell, a recent alumna of Columbia’s MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program, attended the Climate Reality Leadership Corps 31st training in the Philippines this

GeoTalk: A smart way to map earthquake impact 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (236 visits) info
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Last week at the 2016 General Assembly Sara, one of the EGU’s press assistants, had the opportunity to speak to Koen Van Noten about his research into how crowdsourcing can be used to find out more about [...]

Forecasting the time of failure: the Preonzo rockslide 

The Landslide Blog [09:21:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
category→recreation
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In a wonderful new paper in the journal Landslides, Simon Loew and collagues describe the use of monitoring data to forecast the failure of the 2012 Preonzo rockslide in

Enter Sarmientosaurus 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [08:10:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
Yesterday we got a treat: the description of a new titanosaur, Sarmientosaurus musacchioi, based on some decent cervical vertebrae and an almost absurdly nice skull from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina [...]

Bill to transfer AZGS is being heard in the Senate today 

Arizona Geology [01:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
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The Senate Appropriations Committee is meeting now to hear the dozen or so budget bills, including SB1530, Agency Consolidation, which transfers the duties of the Arizona Geological Survey to the University of [...]

Properly Communicating a Forecast Is Just As Important as Accuracy 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:14:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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The Storm Prediction Center’s outlook for severe weather verified fairly well yesterday. There were not that many tornadoes and the reason for this was likely that the wind shear was not that favorable [...]

Senate debate on Arizona geologist de-licensing bill set for today 

Arizona Geology [19:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (222 visits) info
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Creative conservation: thinking outside the box to protect species in a warming world 

The Contemplative Mammoth [19:56:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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Climate change and human activity are going to combine to create new challenges to biodiversity in the coming century. Over the last decade, it’s become increasingly apparent that 20th [...]

Zebra Mussels Impact Lake Minnetonka 

Lake Scientist [18:36:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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Researchers at the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District have just released the results of a five-year investigation into the impacts that zebra mussels in Lake Minnetonka have had on the lake’s[...] The post [...]

Il terremoto di La Rochelle del 28 aprile 2016: geodinamica all'interno della zolla europea 

scienzeedintorni [18:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info
category→science_technology
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Stamattina un terremoto ha investito i dintorni di La Rochelle, sulla costa atlantica francese. La scossa è stata distintamente avvertita dalla popolazione e le agenzie di stampa riportano delle notizie [...]

New study explains source of mysterious radar echoes 

AGU Meetings [17:18:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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After 50 years, scientists think they may have cracked one of atmospheric science’s most persistent mysteries. Every day at dawn, an unknown phenomenon appears. Radar waves bounce off of it and return to [...]

Geotech #11 and 11A 

Ontario-geofish [15:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info
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I've followed these very slow projects from the beginning.  At first I just couldn't believe them, and called them a fantasy of my mind.  Now that they are into the thick of things, we'll call them real. [...]

Consensus, Cooperation, and Conversation 

Prerogative of Harlots [15:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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This is one of my periodic mea culpas for a lack of posts. In this case, I have an excuse and I think it's a worthy one. I'm one of a group of people editing a new book on collection storage, due for [...]

Damn Fool California Farmers Bringing on a New Dust Bowl 

Geotripper [09:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (610 visits) info
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The video is very short, but in eight seconds it shows the stupidity of bad agricultural practices in Central California, practices that have led to disaster in the past, and maybe into our immediate future as [...]

A Dino Story! (2016) 

Koprolitos [08:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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"A Dino Story!" es un breve cortometraje creado por Sivadigitalart (Sivakumar S.), artista especializado en efectos visuales y animación digital procedente de Chennai (India). Sivakumar tiene un amplio bagaje [...]

Visiting a Desert Karst Oasis: The Magic of Montezuma Well 

Rosetta Stones [06:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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In this edition, we explore the magic that happens when an ancient lake, an underwater spring, a sinkhole, a perched water table, and time combine to create a desert karst oasis. Come visit one of... -- Read [...]

Daspletosaurus Assembly: Building a Frightful Lizard 

RMDRC paleo lab [00:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (206 visits) info
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There is actually a very good reason why I haven't updated this blog in a while: We've been up to our armpits in the lab building the prototype cast copy of Pete III, our 11m Daspletosaurus.Ilium cast fresh in [...]
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