Geology:
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...
Posted on December 11, 2006 10:29 AM • 6 Comments
Just stumbled upon Louise Kellogg's blog. Louise (webpage) is the Chair of the Geology Dept. at UC Davis and was one of my undergraduate advisors. Her flavor of geophysics is the deep-earth/mantle convection stuff and she writes papers with titles...
Posted on October 31, 2006 5:11 PM • 0 Comments
If I didn't have a day job I could scan hundreds of blogs every day like Coturnix apparently does but it's about all I can do to read my own. (Read that as positive wonderment that C has the energy...
Posted on October 5, 2006 10:14 PM • 10 Comments
Over on geology.about.com (helpful tip: if you're ever teaching a lecture on geology, go there first), Andrew Alden scoops me in announcing that Mark Myers has been confirmed by the Senate as the next head of the USGS. Back in...
Posted on September 17, 2006 12:06 PM • 0 Comments
I have a long post up on Prometheus here about today's Environment and Public Works Committee markup on S.1848, the Cleanup of Inactive and Abandoned Mines Act, sponsored by Senators Salazar and Allard....
Posted on September 13, 2006 5:09 PM • 0 Comments
But back to Roadside Geology. What book do customers who view the Roadside page eventually end up buying? At an astonishing 77% it's the Christian self-help book
The Power of the Praying Wife. Huh???? Second, at 13%
Posted on July 3, 2006 12:16 AM • 3 Comments
Word on the street is that Senator Domenici is moving toward a real solution on nuclear waste storage. CQ.com just told me that Domenici is putting a provision in the 2007 Energy-Water Appropriations bill (hey kids, it's approps markup season!!...
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Posted on June 27, 2006 3:46 PM • 2 Comments
It's not often that geologists get featured on NPR, but when you publish a paper in Nature that discusses the destruction of Los Angeles via fire and brimstone, you're going to be called upon to give interviews. Here's the exchange...
Posted on June 21, 2006 9:36 PM • 3 Comments
It's been clear for a long time why environmental issues don't get the same political traction as issues like crime, security, taxes, job and health care. Ask a bunch of voters whether environmental problems are important and a large majority...
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Posted on May 15, 2006 7:01 PM • 6 Comments
Tell me more!
And he does and here's where it gets weird. Jay Taylor's newsletter actually contains the following passage, and not hidden, but displayed somewhat prominently, in large-type answer to the sentence noted above:
To find junior mining stocks with the greatest profit potential, Jay studied geology and completed virtually all of the required coursework for a B.A. in geology from Hunter College.
OH. MY. GOD.
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Posted on March 3, 2006 10:54 AM • 1 Comments
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.)
