Monthly Archives: September 2010

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Chris, who holds the keys to the magic scripts that make our Twitter link fest something less than an all-day HTML formatting slog, is traveling at the moment. So forgive the leaner linky goodness this week, and savor the best … Continue reading

Categories: Uncategorized

Flood! In the middle of Australia’s Outback?!

Without question, the most important geologic experiences in my career have been floods. I grew up on the Upper Mississippi River in southern Minnesota and decided I wanted to study rivers during the Great Flood of 1993. Four years later, … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, geohazards, hydrology

The science of streams in the city

It’s not as breathtakingly beautiful and soul-cleansing as crystal clear springs in forested mountains, but this is the present and future of many of the world’s streams, and the way that most people interact with their local stream and watershed, … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, hydrology

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Blogs in motion and drawing attention to women science bloggers The big news of the week was the launching of Wired’s new stable of science blogs, which includes two awesome geoblogging Brians: Brian Romans of Clastic Detritus, and Brian Switek … Continue reading

Categories: links

All quiet on the Alpine Fault?

The Alpine fault has not ruptured since European settlement in the 1840s. Paleoseismology tells us that this is the longest it has gone in a millenium without generating a magnitude 8+ earthquake. Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, geomorphology, tectonics