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vranespic.jpg Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)

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Goodnight, and good luck

[READ ME FIRST: in case you don't want to read this whole post to find the most important info, which is at the bottom, you will now find me in my new digs here and here. Read this post to...

The power of blogging, demonstrated again

Actually, this is a demonstration of the power of letter-writing to authority. Have a local issue under the jurisdiction of city or county authorities, but that involves a resource considered important regionally? Are the local authorities not doing the right...

Trying not to let the door hit me....

Hello readers - January 11 is the one-year anniversary of the start of ScienceBlogs (my first SB post is here). It's been a very interesting project, one that I was quite flattered to have been invited to join as an...

at AGU this week

I've been meaning to pull together a geobloggers confab at AGU this year but didn't get it done, so we'll have to wait until next year. In the meantime, I'm at the AGU Fall Meeting all week and am giving...

NoSeNada is about to turn turned 1000

Ah, anniversaries. Celebrations. I'm not above them. (Did I mention I have a birthday coming up?) Anyway, out of the many milestone metrics I could pick to celebrate the blogging here, I'm choosing comments. One of you lucky saps is...

Gilbert White passes away at 94

Let's put it this way: Anybody even remotely connected to natural hazards studies would identify Gilbert White as The Man of the field. They called White the Father of Natural Hazards. His Ph.D. thesis wrote the book on human interactions...

Deadline Friday for Communicating Climate Change conference

"The British Council USA, in partnership with American University and SeaWeb/COMPASS, is pleased to present a dyanmic international workshop "Communicating Climate Change: Science and Media Networking for the Future." Participants will learn how to effectively communicate complex climate change science...

Marie Tharp dies at 86

The news is here. Marie apparently died today at Nyack Hospital. In brief, Marie Tharp was central to 1940's and 1950's era discoveries of mid-ocean ridges and explanations of plate tectonics. I'll leave the fuller descriptions of Marie's work and...

get yer head in the clouds

i'm still away so two quick notes and then i'm going back underground 1- Check out Sean D's new atmospheric science blog, Head In A Cloud. Technical earth sciences blogs are far too few and far between so Sean's blog...

Much like last year....

....I am audi-5. I'll be in deep seclusion for the next month, which means I'll only be on the net once every few days. I may sneak a post or two out here or there (they actually get the NY...

Some words on comments for NSN

Seems like commenting on comments is all the rage these days, so I thought I should clarify the NoSeNada "comments policy." There is no policy. I reserve the right to arbitrarily delete any comment I feel like dumping, for whatever...

welcome to NoSeNada

Welcome to the NoSéNada quarter of the ScienceBlogs empire. NoSéNada started in mid-2005 and was originally a collaboration of a few writers, but for all practical purposes the blog ended up being mostly me with the occasional guest post. So...

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