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Monday, 27 June 2016

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Yellowstone hot springs: Upsetting your color scale 

Magma Cum Laude [2016-06-27 21:05:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (237 visits) info

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I was fortunate enough to spend several weeks in Yellowstone National Park this summer, doing geophysical surveys in hydrothermal areas. I’ll be talking about those elsewhere in a few weeks (keep an eye on the AGU Instagram!), but in the meantime I wanted to show off some of the other excellent features of the park. Fieldwork in Yellowstone – and especially fieldwork with electrical equipment – is at the mercy of

Wooster Geologist high in the air! 

Wooster Geologists [2016-06-21 20:31:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info

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Editor’s note: The following post is from guest blogger Annette Hilton (’17) about her extraordinary research experiences this summer. Annette gets around: You may remember her post last summer from the American Museum of Natural History. This summer I have the privilege of working an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) internship with NASA Student Airborne

NASA Mars orbiters reveal seasonal dust storm pattern 

AGU Meetings [2016-06-13 17:49:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (192 visits) info
For six recent Martian years, temperature records from NASA Mars orbiters reveal a pattern of three types of large regional dust storms occurring in sequence at about the same times each year during the southern hemisphere spring and summer. Each Martian year lasts about two Earth

Planet Earth magazines 

Geology in the West Country [2016-05-25 21:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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Planet Earth magazines - free to a good home.Issued quarterly, complete set from:- Summer 2002 to Spring 2010, then Winter 2011 to Autumn 2015.(NERC did not print hard copy between and including Summer 2010 to Autumn 2011)Contact email

Explore Movie Monsters this Summer with All-New Special FX Camp 

BEYONDbones [2016-05-24 21:09:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info

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When I was a kid, I lived a couple of years in Singapore. There, at the time, the media was somewhat censored, so your TV viewing options on a Saturday afternoon were limited. Consequently, I have seen the 1981 film … Continue reading

Summer 2016 Part-Time Internship, MS in Sustainability Management Program 

State of the Planet [2016-05-06 20:38:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
Job Description: The Earth Institute seeks a part-time intern to support the Master of Science in Sustainability Management (MSSM) graduate program during the summer of 2016 from May 25, 2016 through September 2, 2016 with the possibility of continuing into the Fall 2016 semester. Major assignments for the summer will be related to the admissions... read

Summer 2016 Curriculum & Grading Assistant Positions 

State of the Planet [2016-04-22 17:42:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (646 visits) info
The Sustainability Management program is seeking candidates for Curriculum and Grading Assistant (CGA) positions for the summer 2016 sessions. Responsibilities include updating information in Canvas, reviewing course material with the instructor, and assisting in the grading of problem sets and

It’s Mud Season on Lake Erie 

Terra Central [2016-04-22 15:10:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (633 visits) info

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This (above) is a MODIS satellite image of Lake Erie taken April 15, 2016. It clearly shows sediment entering the lake from major rivers and tributaries. The brownish hues on the land surface indicate “leaf off,” dead or dormant plant cover, and bare-ground agricultural fields. Later in the summer, the tawny sediment plumes of spring will give way to verdant swirls of nuisance algae blooms, like this: Between mud season

Wooster Geologist Annette Hilton (’17) meets Lunar Geologist Harrison Schmitt 

Wooster Geologists [2016-03-29 15:52:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info

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Annette Hilton (’17) gave a talk this month at the 47th Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference, along with her summer internship advisor Julianne Gross of the American Museum of Natural History and Rutgers University. You can read the story of their exciting discoveries here. This is a remarkable accomplishment for any undergraduate, let alone a

Vallis Vale de la Beche unconformity - damage to this SSSI 

Geology in the West Country [2016-03-22 12:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info

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Message from Alan Holiday, DIGS Group "I was at Vallis Vale today with a group from Sherborne U3A. As you can see from the photo someone had had a bonfire on the unconformity surface!I wasn’t in a position to clear up the mess unfortunately.I was wondering if we might approach this through local school(s) if there is a geology dept or through geography or science  departments and try and get the staff on board to explain why this shouldn’t happen. When I was on the site in the summer [...]

Internships Available at Center for Sustainable Investment 

State of the Planet [2016-02-11 21:14:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info

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The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment is accepting applications until March 31 for internship positions for summer 2016. Interns are assigned to one or more projects depending on background and interests; unpaid and paid opportunities are

The Adventures of Archie the Wandering T. rex: England 

BEYONDbones [2016-01-29 00:00:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (223 visits) info

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by Karen Whitley Man am I one lucky dinosaur. When I was adopted last summer from the Museum Store at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, I had no idea I was on my way to becoming a world traveler, a … Continue reading

Dreams of Summer: Going Underground on New Mexico's Continental Divide 

Geotripper [2016-01-28 21:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info

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When one thinks of the Continental Divide, one might imagine high peaks of the Rocky Mountains, piercing the sky with glacially carved ridges. It's not always quite that way. As we made our way last summer across the flat plateau lands east of Petrified Forest National Park, we passed the Zuni Pueblo, and reached a forest of Ponderosa pines. The flat highway crossed a barely

Monday Geology Picture: West Coast Fire 

Georneys [2016-01-18 21:07:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (234 visits) info

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Here in South Africa it’s fire season again. So far, this summer has been very hot and dry with many parts of the country suffering from drought. Over the past few weeks, there have been several forest fires around the Western Cape province. About a week ago we drove past a moderate size fire when we were driving back from Langebaan Lagoon. Fortunately, it seems that firefighters contained this particular

Dreams of Summer: This is Where and When...Wait, They Made a National Park Out of This? 

Geotripper [2016-01-17 08:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (215 visits) info

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Why, yes. Yes they did. About two posts ago, I pointed out that there are some places where the geology is kind of...monotonous. One of those places is the vast sage plain east of Grand Canyon and Flagstaff, around the towns of Holbrook and Winslow (yes, that Winslow). The land is flat, windy and barren, hardly looking like a place of geological inspiration. And yet it is. In the last

Dreams of Summer: Your Time Machine Malfunctioned. Where and When Are You? 

Geotripper [2016-01-14 08:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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The DeLorean was working just fine when you entered Oct. 21, 2015 and hit 88 miles per hour, but you must have hit one of the gravitational waves they just discovered (that's the rumor anyway), and the car went careening through time and space. You land and when you open the door, this is the scene that greets you. And there's no Yoda, and no Luke Skywalker either (how many movie references

Dreams of Summer: The Bad Star Strikes! What happened at Canyon Diablo 50,000 Years Ago 

Geotripper [2016-01-11 02:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info

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It might be heresy for me to say it, but there are some places where the geology appears to be kind of...monotonous. Flatlands covered by soils are sometimes not all that interesting. I can even be accused of thinking this way about my very own home valley, the Great Valley of California. I've spent a long time teaching my students that our valley isn't actually boring at all. It's just

Dreams of Summer: Living Under the Threat of Destruction at Wupatki 

Geotripper [2016-01-06 10:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info

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The San Francisco Peaks, a gigantic stratovolcano, rises beyond the ruins of the Citadel at Wupatki National Monument. There is a huge difference between living close to the Earth without advanced technology and living in a highly technological society. Well, lots of differences actually, but today I'm thinking about living in ignorance of geological hazards. The thought arose because of

Dreams of Summer: If there's a Little Colorado River, is there a Little Grand Canyon? 

Geotripper [2016-01-05 02:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (647 visits) info

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In the last post, I noted that there is a lot more to the Colorado Plateau than the Grand Canyon. The Canyon (it just has to be capitalized) is more than 200 miles long, but it cuts through just a part of the Colorado Plateau Province, a vast region encompassing 130,000 square miles (337,000 sq km), and containing 27 national parks and monuments. The Grand Canyon is a starting point,

Dreams of Summer and Southwest Travels: Grand Stories Exposed in a Canyon 

Geotripper [2016-01-03 09:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (607 visits) info
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No one place on Earth can ever tell the whole story of the Earth. But there are lots of places that tell part of the story. That's the fact that makes geology one of the most fascinating sciences there is. It's an incredible detective story that must be pieced together from disparate bits and fragments that must be correlated and organized into a coherent narrative. Some places tell more of
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