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Since 1982, I have served as an educator and guide for the Ventures Program at the Museum of Northern Arizona. It has been an incredible experience and I have been privileged to share the beauty and geology of the Colorado Plateau with hundreds of [...]
I have released mapalomalia, (which may or might not mean model of the Earth), the first fully web based geological modeling platform. I hope it can serve the community of geologists to build models that can help us understand our planet and face [...]
Wie entwickelten sich die frühesten Vorfahren von Spinnen und
Skorpionen? LMU-Forscher zeigen an 520 Millionen Jahre alten
Versteinerungen, dass die Larven-Stadien denen von Krebs-Vorläufern
ähnelten – ein erstaunliches Detail im [...]
It is now obvious that my favourite geotech job is a ghost-town, probably cited for a zillion osha violations.
On to the secondary title. Since Brunel, it has been found that engineers design for 1 in 10,000 per year chance of death. That gives [...]
Alle Jahre wieder treffen sich die Geschiebekundler zur Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Geschiebekunde. In diesem Jahr trafen wir uns am 22. bis 24. April auf dem Urzeithof in Fehrenbötel. An diesem Ort, der passend zum Thema in der [...]
The image below is also from the Aqua satellite on Friday and the smoke from the fires is clearly visible. The Suomi Satellite has an imager capable of night time images and the CIMMS Satellite blog at the Uni. of Wisconsin just posted this image [...]
“Visit Nebraska. Visit Nice.” (more here)Nebraska is nice, as the Nebraska Tourism Commission says, but why are they so modest? It’s more than nice—spectacular even. I especially like the immense vistas—maybe to the edge of the world! [...]
Risks for the world's Transboundary River Basins are projected to increase in the next 15–30 years, particularly in four hotspot regions: the Middle East, Central Asia, the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin, and the Orange and Limpopo basins in [...]