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Friday, 11 March 2016
Now Open: The Burke Baker Planetarium, Best in the World
It only takes a few seconds of a stellar light show in this newly-renovated facility to recognize why the Houston Museum of Natural Science is calling the Burke Baker Planetarium “the best and brightest in the world.” The clarity, the … Continue readingShip life
Mozambique Core Brings Up 7 Million Years of Climate History
With calm seas, the JOIDES Resolution's latest sediment core comes up with what appears to be a fantastic, cyclic climate signal that is continuous back 7 million years, writes SidneyPacking up and heading out
After a one-day delay due to bad weather, we finally headed out of Corvallis on Thursday afternoon. On the way to Newport, where the R/V Oceanus is docked, we stopped to take water samples from the Alsea River [...]Sunbathing in the microscopic desert jungle
The desert has its own palette, distinctive and at the same time subtle yet dramatic. There are many factors at work creating the patterns and hues of arid lands - obviously the kind of sand, the kind of rock, [...]Oklahoma doesn't cut anything for earthquakes
Article All the news is full of the big OK injection reductions. They are going to cut injection by 40% from 2014 levels. What they don't say is that injection is already down a half from 2014 due to [...]GeoSciences Column: Mapping floods with social media
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Picture this: you are on your commute home, smartphone or tablet in hand, surfing the internet. You might quickly catch up on the latest news, check in with your friend’s on Facebook, or take to Twitter to [...]
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MX,DE,US,CN,GBThought-experiment #2: what will happen if Sci-Hub fails?
Yesterday we asked what will happen if Sci-Hub succeeds (by which I meant that it survives whatever legal challenges come its way, and continues to distribute copyrighted scholarly publications to anyone in [...]Dinosaurios en el cómic de "El Ministerio del Tiempo"
The World’s Best Long Range Weather Model Just Got Better
Synoptic weather forecasters like me have been looking forward to the upgraded ECMWF forecast model for months now. This model is already the guidance of choice for medium and long range forecasts [...]Rig floor
readAttributing Extreme Weather Events to Climate Change
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My friend Heidi Cullen at Climate Central in Princeton has an excellent Op-Ed in the New York Times today. It’s about a new study released by the National Academies on attributing extreme weather events [...]
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Attributing Extreme Weather to Causes – Including Climate Change
New research and more powerful computer models are advancing scientists’ ability to tease apart the forces that can worsen extreme weather. In a new report, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences [...]Friday fold: disharmony in the Old Lyme Gneiss
Happy Friday – it’s the end of a very busy week for me, and I hope you too are looking forward to a fun and rejuvenating weekend. Here’s your Friday fold – like last week, a guest [...]Paleo Profile: The Oldest Chameleon
Amber gives us a detailed look at the oldest chameleon yetNew papers on paleoseismology, tsunami, and active tectonics (Mar 2016)
It’s only one month since my last paper update and yet I have nineteen interesting new studies for you. Today’s round-up includes tsunamis, tectonic geomorphology, environmental earthquake effects [...]Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A mystery from the Middle Devonian of Ontario, Canada
This week’s fossil is a strange one. Mr. Darrell Ellis collected the above tiny specimen from the Hungry Hollow Member (Middle Devonian) at the famous Hungry Hollow location near Arkona, Ontario. (He [...]Beautiful Antarctica
Five years after the M9 Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima disaster...
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