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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Category: ranting
On this hot, hot day, when much of the eastern United States is beset by a record-breaking heat wave, what could be more refreshing than a nice cold, fresh bottle of water? After all, that's exactly what is recommended by...
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 7:37 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: by Anne
For large urban streams, decades of infrastructure development have often pinned the stream into a narrow corridor. There are ways that existing artificial structures can be put to work to mitigate some of the ecological impacts of urbanization.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 10:00 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: environment
How injecting drilling mud can hopefully stem the well leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:20 AM • 36 Comments •
Category: environment
Our unabated demand for oil is driving drilling in places where accidents of this sort - major, hard to stem leaks - are going to be a major risk.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:35 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: environment
I'm sure recycling prose is good for the environment somehow.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:25 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Spectacular fossilized forests in the Canadian High Arctic provide clues to life on a warmer earth. Unless we mine their coal in order to heat our planet back to the Eocene.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 1:26 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: climate science
On the 7th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:30 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: environment
including mine.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:46 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: environment
"Anthropogenic biomes are in many ways a more accurate description of broad ecological patterns within the current terrestrial biosphere than are conventional biome systems that describe vegetation patterns based on variations in climate and geology."
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 7:18 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: geology
This image, just released from NASA's Earth Observatory, is both scary and beautiful This is - or was - the Aral Sea*. 50 years ago, it was a substantial body of water. Then, the rivers that fed it were diverted...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:16 AM • 9 Comments •
