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Now that I have gotten the news of the recent symposium out of the way, I’d like to present a new type of post for me – an annotated review of recent literature on aquatic amniotes and matters relevant to the study of their paleobiology. My [...]
When I was in Boston last September, I stumbled upon the book "Stories in Stone" by David Williams at the Harvard Co-op bookstone. I spent a few hours reading it in the store, pouring over the first chapter, "The ugliest rock ever quarried." I [...]
This update is for November 1-2. Great progress was made during these past two days on the Gorgosaurus skull. Much of the well-preserved snout and lower jaw were uncovered. Usually for a significant find such as this, I will do some background [...]
I have seen a lot of people worrying about earthquakes and earthquake swarms that take place in Iceland on regular basic. Those worries are not needed as Iceland gets about one to two earthquake swarms on average over the course … Continue [...]
In Indonesien istder Vulkan Merapi erneut ausgebrochen. Während der heftigen Aktivitäten wurden auch etliche pyroklastische Ströme gemeldet. Berichte über Opfer liegen zur Zeit noch nicht vor.
Merapi stößt kilometerhohe Aschesäule aus - [...]
A couple of years back I started doing some geophysics surveying over some local glacial sediments. It turned out that these morainic sediments were quite strongly deformed, first by thrust compression by the ice front and then with normal faulting [...]
Pink Carnotaurus with Accordion by Ingunn AaslandWalking with dinosaurs - the musical! This idea started with the popular expression "I need [item] like a Carnotaurus needs an accordion"... (What do you mean it's not a popular expression? It [...]
Hace varias semanas, la revista The Scientist publicó un interesante artículo sobre las ventajas que bloguear puede proporcionar a los científicos (y aspirantes). Entre ellas, podemos encontrar:Conexión con nuevos colaboradores con intereses [...]
Image from UC Berkeley Biometerology Lab
LIDAR (light detection and ranging) is an optical remote sensing technology that measures properties of scattered light to find range and other information about a distant target. In GIS and mapping, it's [...]