Category Archives: paper reviews

Anne’s picks of the June literature: Fluvial Geomorphology and Landscape Evolution

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

How do rivers erode bedrock streams, during big floods, and in the presence of groundwater? Laboratory and accidental experiments are providing some cool new insights. Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, paper reviews

Anne’s picks of the June literature: Watershed Hydrology

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

How long does it *really* take water to move through a watershed? Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, hydrology, paper reviews

Anne’s picks of the June literature: Humans as Agents of Hydrologic Change

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

How large reservoirs affect our measurements of global sea level rise…and how the world’s biggest river basins are going to respond to mid-century climate change Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, climate science, hydrology, paper reviews

How do we know Gabon’s ‘multicellular’ fossils are 2.1 billion years old?

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Chris Rowan

The fossil record prior to 550 million years ago is so patchy that every discovery is going to cause some fanfare. That is certainly case with these odd looking things, which have been proclaimed in Nature as the oldest mulitcellular … Continue reading →

Categories: fossils, geology, paper reviews, past worlds, Proterozoic