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ReGrowing Tropical Rain Forests Recover Carbon Storage Quickly, but not Diversity

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-11-08 23:00:00]   recommend this post  (1409 visits)

A new study of re-growing tropical forests has concluded that plant biodiversity takes longer to recover than carbon storage following major disturbances such as clearance for farming. The findings, published in the scientific journal Proceedings [...]

georeferencing images in QGIS using OSM data: how to distort the City

Digital Geography [2013-11-03 14:09:32]   recommend this post  (1193 visits)

You probably already referenced maps with written coordinates but using photos or images is a little different as you need some characteristic points so you can control the position of the image according to the real world. In this little tutorial [...]

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Very common orthocerid nautiloids from the Siluro-Devonian of Morocco

Wooster Geologists [2013-11-03 06:39:37]   recommend this post  (796 visits)

If you’ve been to a rock shop, or even googled “fossil”, you’ve seen these beautiful and ubiquitous objects. They are polished sections through a nautiloid known as “Orthoceras“. We put quotes around the genus [...]

New method for settlement-based helical pile design

GeoPrac.net [2013-11-06 00:36:28]   recommend this post  (752 visits)

Dimitrios at Deep Excavation posted an article last month about a new settlement method for helical piles that he is developing with Michael Perlow. The method is already showing promising results according to the article. It will ultimately be [...]

Geotalk: Simon Redfern on science communication

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2013-11-06 13:00:04]   recommend this post  (666 visits)

This week in Geotalk, we’re talking to Simon Redfern, renowned scientist and science communicator and the man behind An Atom’s-Eye View of the Planet. What made you first step into science communication? That’s a difficult question for me to [...]

Solar Eclipse of November 2013

The Failed Rift [2013-11-03 11:55:29]   recommend this post  (633 visits)

In about a few hours, observers in Nigeria will experience a partial eclipse of the Sun.  The eclipse actually what is known as a hybrid Eclipse. A hybrid eclipse occurs when a Solar eclipse is seen as Total and Annular at the same time. A total [...]

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: A New Early Career Researchers Network for the UK

Geography Postgrads [2013-11-05 10:48:38]   recommend this post  (622 visits)

Sarah Pogue reviews the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability - Early Career Researchers meeting in York

Le Brea Tar Pit Fossils

Louisville Area Fossils [2013-11-04 05:36:00]   recommend this post  (604 visits)

This video produced by Voice of America highlights the Le Brea Tar Pits of Los Angeles, California. The pits have produced over 5.5 million fossils over the last 100 years. The fossils found there date to the Pleistocene.Learn more about the Page [...]

New issue of SRL with lots of paleo- and archeoseismology papers

Paleoseismicity [2013-11-04 11:15:50]   recommend this post  (603 visits)

The new issue of Seismological Research Letters has been published now and it contains a lot of articles for those liking old earthquakes. Some topics might sound familiar to you when you attended the PATA days conference as the authors … [...]

Jobs, jobs, jobs! Some interesting job offers in tectonics and paleoseismology

Paleoseismicity [2013-11-06 13:14:27]   recommend this post  (597 visits)

Several interesting jobs are currently vacant for paleoseismologists and earthquake geology scientists, from PhD positions to professorships. PhD position at Cologne University, Bensberg Seismological Observatory, Germany A PhD candidate working on [...]