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- The Cuyahoga River burned today for the first time in 51 years. Here’s what we can learn from it.
- Spooky seismic action at a distance: moderate earthquakes in western US cause submarine landslides in the Gulf of Mexico
- Two reflections on the largest earthquake yet recorded, 60 years later.
- Watershed Hydrology – Complete Compendium of my Online Teaching Resources
- How I taught Flooding online in Spring 2020
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Monthly Archives: January 2017
Teaching graduate seminars is good for an academic’s reading habits (Anne’s 2016 #365papers in review)
1. Introduction As a scientist, one of my big challenges is to keep on top of the vast and ever-growing body of scientific knowledge about my research and teaching subjects. I’m not the only one who apparently struggles with this … Continue reading
An unremarkable year – seismically, anyway.
Political pundits seem fond of geological metaphors such as ‘earthquake’, ‘seismic shift’, ‘tectonic shift’ and ‘tsunami’ – and they’ve certainly had plenty of reasons to use such metaphors in the past 12 months, as both my birth country and my … Continue reading

