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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 schedule. A global catastrophe of undead [...]
Here is a video of the Little Chino Fault in Chino Valley from the AGS. LittleChinoFaultHarry
Via Geoff Manaugh at BLDBLOG and the US Military, a spectacular digital/analog sandbox! Yes, it's developed for war games and military planning and operations, but wow, does it look like fun. The digital dimensions are powered by Microsoft's X-box [...]
The 6th INQUA workshop on Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology and Archaeoseismology will be held from 19-24 April, 2015, in Pescina, Fucino Basin, Italy. This is the next meeting in our PATA Days series, although due to unforeseen linguistical [...]
A dry channel in basalt on the Columbia Plateau in central Washington (photo by Mrs. Geotripper)
I'm sure most are familiar with the parable of the blind men and the
elephant. Several men investigate an elephant, but each touches a
different [...]
Northern Convergence as a name for this blog series was all about the role of a convergent plate boundary in the production of the scenery of the Pacific Northwest. The compressional forces that developed as the Pacific/Farallon/Juan de Fuca plate [...]
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 [...]
If an alien civilisation lands, millions of years from now when humans are a distant memory, what will they find? Our cities will be long gone; our sturdiest monuments and greatest buildings will be dust. But if they bring a geologist with [...]
Terry Steinborn sent over a article on the future of geothermal power.LA Times ArticleHarry
Today (29-October-2014) marks the two months since the second eruption in Holuhraun started. Currently the eruption is ongoing with no signs of stopping, it is erupting about the same power since Monday, the eruption power is less than … [...]