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For lot's more videos on soil moisture topics, see Drs Selker and Or's text-book support videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoMb5YOZuaGtn8pZyQMSLuQ/playlists
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Author Archives: Chris Rowan
Content warnings when talking about disasters on social media
Like many others as Twitter continues its apparent spiral towards death eternally gridlocked dysfunction, I have been testing the waters on the distributed social network Mastodon. So far, I’ve been quite enjoying it, but it has been a big system shock … Continue reading
Juno reveals Europa’s evolving surface
About a month ago, NASA’s Juno probe buzzed the Jovian moon Jupiter, and we got this cool picture, taken from a distance of about 400 km away. The grooves and ridges criss-crossing Europa’s icy shell are thought to record water from … Continue reading
The beautiful geological info-art of John Emslie
Look at this beautiful 19th century infographic, courtesy of the History of Geology on Twitter: Here it is in all it’s glory: Except for the somewhat interesting landscape associated with label 12 – “Earthquakes and elevations of the land by … Continue reading
The moment for nuclear power to save us was twenty years ago – and it didn’t happen
Via Dr. Jonathan Foley on Twitter, a recent opinion piece in the NYT argues that despite it remaining popular amongst some advocates, “Nuclear power still doesn’t make much sense”. The problem with nuclear is that we’ve been having the same conversation … Continue reading
A deep origin for the Tohoku earthquake?
So if I’m reading this summary in Eos right, there is a new study suggesting that there was significant deformation of the subducted plate in the lead up to the M9 2011 Tohoku earthquake occurred – enough mass was redistributed to measurably … Continue reading
Nice plan for content warnings on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Now you need a Mastodon/Fediverse button on this blog.