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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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The unthanked shoulders we stand on
Via Liz Hide on Twitter, a thought-provoking acknowledgement of the important role the in discovering and excavating the paleontological treasures in many museums’ collections. On a similar theme, I think of the story of Alfred Wegener and continental drift. The … Continue reading
The Cuyahoga River burned today for the first time in 51 years. Here’s what we can learn from it.
How many of you had “Cuyahoga River catches fire” on your 2020 bingo card? Yet that’s what happened today. A tanker-car collision/fire near the Cuyahoga River in Akron this morning spilled burning fuel into a storm sewer and then the … Continue reading
Oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere may not have required a trigger event after all
In Earth history, there have been 3 abrupt jumps in atmospheric oxygen. A evolutionary or tectonic trigger is usually invoked, but a new study just published in Science suggests all you need is gradual oxidation of earth’s surface plus feedbacks … Continue reading
Earthquakes of 2018
Just as I did in 2016 and 2017, I thought I’d begin the new year with a look back at the earthquake activity in the last. According to the catalogue maintained by the USGS, the Earth’s ever-grinding tectonic plates produced … Continue reading
Announcing STORMS
I’m pleased to announce that I’m leading a new multi-institution NSF-funded project investigating how stormwater decision making translates to environmental outcomes at the watershed scale. I’m collaborating with Aditi Bhaskar (Colorado State University), Kelly Turner (UCLA), and Dave Costello (Kent … Continue reading
Nice plan for content warnings on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Now you need a Mastodon/Fediverse button on this blog.