From Simon Willison, the guy who brings us pelicans riding bicycles - beep locator! Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven't unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently...

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A new paper came out today, and in some ways it is the end of an era. But the results are also quite important both scientifically and for society. Benjamin Heurgue and Charles Amory, both at the Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement in G...

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October 2026 was the fourth warmest in 132 years of recordkeeping for the contiguous 48 U.S. states, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction reported on Monday. This was a microscopic cooldown at best in the wake of July, August, and S...

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For millions of years, Otodus megalodon occupied a formidable place in marine food webs. Its broad, serrated teeth could slice through flesh and leave deep marks in whale bones. Yet even this mighty predator eventually disappeared. Around 3.6 mi...

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In this month's research roundup, we explore how delayed climate action could trigger abrupt changes in the Arctic; what ancient ocean sediments reveal about carbon storage during the last ice age; how fiber-optic cables are improving earthquake moni...

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First some good news. Here in the U.S.A., November started with a bang as voters overwhelmingly rejected Donald Trump's Republican party. Democrats now control a comfortable majority in both houses of congress, and Trump will be the lamest of lame-...

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Back in September of 2007, I was moved to launch this blog with a post about an exposure of serpentine rock below a house being built up near the top of Crestmont Avenue. It looked like this at the time.

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Stoppani Glacier in 2015 and 2016 October Landsat images. The snowline is at 350 m in 2015 and at 700 m in 2026. Yellow arrows indicate a significant narrowing of the terminus tongue. Stoppani Glacier is a large valley glacierof the Cordillera Dar...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a ground-based telescope that is creating a 10-year time-lapse video of the night sky to study dark matter, dark energy, the Milky Way, and Solar System objects....

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You lie there motionless. Your grand scale remains evident even though you have been carved up, into what seems like a million pieces. I witnessed them hack you up from the top down, limb by limb. First your branches swan dived downwards, the leaves ...

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 Have you tried 'Magnetic Earth; modelling the magnetic field of the Earth'.

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Saw four cormorants and four humans fishing at the Albuquerque wastewater treatment plant outfall to the Rio Grande this morning. Accumlating odds and ends, cluttering my brain but lacking the oomph for a full blog post: Rio Bravo Bridge With...

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Things are moving very fast. I wrote two years ago about the role that AI/ML was playing in helping accelerate useful developments in climate models. In a field where literally new possibilities are emerging on a week-by-week basis, that mig...

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I am taking a break this week and plan to post again on Sunday, November 15....

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This blog post and the "Deep Dive" podcast, created by Google Notebook, are based on "The coupled reanalysis global meridional overturning circulation imprinted by historic volcanic eruptions" by Jiang et al. (2026). A new research publish...

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Megalodon Adult vs Baby Size ComparisonAwe. Who doesn't love babies? They are the cutest little things, right? Well, mostly....Perhaps not quite as cute if they could bite your arm clean off! A baby Megalodon would have been an impressive neighbour b...

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November forecast runs from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts It is raining again in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as I type these words. But the latest forecast from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts remains...

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What the U.S. election means for space policy and NASA science, voting for the coolest space images, and updates on Society advocacy....

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A fox trots down a street in Berlin at dusk. A troop of baboons moves through a residential garden in Cape Town. A coyote is caught on a camera trap behind a Chicago strip mall, one data point among hundreds of thousands flowing in from cities across...

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Megalodon had the teeth to make a meal of a whale. Fossils show that it did--but the menu was more varied than a succession of enormous animals. They ate their fill of what was swimming in the ocean around them. Small whales, other marine mamma...

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This blog post and the "Deep Dive" podcast, created by Google Notebook, are based on "Evidence the ocean is losing less heat in the northern Atlantic and the AMOC has started to slowly weaken" by Bell et al. (2026). This preprint article (...

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While spooky season is officially in the rearview mirror, it's not too late to talk about ghosts, is it? Not the bedsheet-wearing, candy-hunting ones that may have haunted our doorsteps last week, but a much older, more elusive kind: the geochemica...

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Saturn is best known for its spectacular rings, but the rings are closely connected to the surrounding Saturnian environment. One of the sources of material in this system is the small icy moon Enceladus. During the Cassini mission, spectacular plumes were discovered erupting from fractures near Enceladus' south pole, known as the tiger stripes. These plumes consist predominantly of water vapor, accounting for about 90% of the ejected mass, with the remaining ~10% in the form of icy dust grains. The plume material is continuously released into space, and because of Enceladus' low escape velocity, much of it escapes the moon and spreads throughout Saturn's magnetosphere.

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Ever wished to travel to Antarctica? To dive underneath the ice with whales or penguins? By the power of words I take you to an icy and stormy world that's worth a fantasy story based on the research of my PhD.

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We are excited to announce the 24th edition of Geodesy Campfire - Share Your Research in November. The Geodesy EGU Campfire Events "Share Your Research" give (early career) researchers the chance to talk about their work. We have two exciting talks by our guest speakers, Alexey Kupriyanov and Marcel Iten. Below, you can find the details of the topics awaiting us. We will have time to network after the presentations.

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