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Catherine McKenna on Her Life, Work and Preserving the World for Future Generations

State of the Planet | 18 March, 2024
In a recent Climate School lecture, the former Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change spoke of her not-so-linear career path and why politics are pivotal in combatting climate change....
Categories: Climate; Canada; Catherine McKenna; climate change; climate goals; COP; cs highlights; events; net zero emissions; Paris Agreement;

'Ocean acidification – The other carbon dioxide problem

Earth Learning Idea | 18 March, 2024
The ELI team is now publishing three more activities which will be useful when teaching climate change. The first is: 'Ocean acidification - The other CO2 problem; see how acidified water affects calcareous marine organisms'.
Categories: Resources and Environment;

Emeryville

Oakland Geology | 18 March, 2024
Wedged between Oakland and Berkeley, little Emeryville is situated entirely on the flats where Temescal Creek, mostly buried, meets the Bay. Its eastern tip is about 55 feet above sea level; its native material has nothing in it bigger than a pebble.
Categories: Other topics;

What if Mobility Due to Climate Extremes Is a Crisis for Some but an Adaptation Measure for Others?

The Nature of Cities | 18 March, 2024
The United Nations Disaster Risk Agency holds that "displacement means situations where people are forced or obliged to leave their homes or places of habitual residence because of a disaster or to avoid the impact of an immediate and foreseeable natural hazard. Such displacement results from the fact that affected persons are (i) exposed to ... Continue reading What if Mobility Due to Climate Extremes Is a Crisis for Some but an Adaptation Measure for Others? ??'
Categories: Africa; Essay; People & Communities; Place & Design; Climate change; Communities; Disasters/Red zone; Planning;

How to find eclipse events in your area

Planetary Society Weblog | 18 March, 2024
There are hundreds of eclipse events being held all across North America. Here's how to find one near you....
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Imaggeo On Monday: the EGU Photo Competition – not just landscapes!

EGU Geolog | 18 March, 2024
In 2010 EGU held our first annual Photo Competition at the General Assembly in Vienna. Since then hundreds of photos have been shared on imaggeo by geoscientists and researchers just like you, with a lucky few being selected each year to be highlighted during the meeting and voted on by our members.
Categories: EGU GA 2024; Imaggeo; Imaggeo on Mondays; Photo Competition; crystal; EGU photo competition; imaggeo on mondays; imaggeo photo competition; microscope; photomicrograph; thin section;

Homalonotus delphinocephalus Trilobite Fossil

Recently, the The J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles, California, USA made almost 88,000 images available under the Creative common Zero license as part of their Open Content Program. They state "Making images from Getty's collections freely availab...
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On the tragic fate of PeerJ

I said last time that Jisc's feeble transition-to-open-access report was the first of two disapointing scholarly-communication announcements that week. The second was of course the announcement that PeerJ has been acquired by Taylor and Francis.
Categories: CC BY; moral dimensions; open access; PeerJ;

A few Irish music favorites

A few of my Irish music favorites:On Raglan Road - A poem by Patrick Kavavagh that he apparently felt should be sung to the music of 'Dawning of the Day' an old Irish song. Luke Kelly's version was maybe the earliest.  Mary Fahl wrote another versi...
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Around the World in 24 Days - A Story of Stone - Part 4 - Luxor and Giza, Egypt

Earthly Musings | 17 March, 2024
I'm so sorry for the delay in posting - I've actually been to Antarctica on a two-week trip and was unable to upload photos on the weak internet signal. I'm back to share these images and thoughts on visiting some of the best preserved ancient wonders anywhere on the globe!
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Comment Period Open for Three AGU Position Statements

From The Prow | 15 March, 2024
Starting today, AGU members have until 30 April to comment on revisions to three AGU position statements addressing climate change, science communication and data, respectively.
Categories: Science and society;

Transits are cool, but…

Planetary Society Weblog | 15 March, 2024
A moon transiting the Sun is awesome, but still doesn't quite compare to a total solar eclipse. Learn why, find out about Europa Clipper's message in a bottle, and more....
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First time at an EGU General Assembly? We got you covered!

EGU Geolog | 15 March, 2024
Europe's biggest geoscience conference, EGU24, is only one month away! Each year, the EGU General Assembly brings together over 17,000 researchers, scientists, academics and journalists to discuss and share the latest developments in planetary exploration, Earth observation, polar science, climate change, natural hazards, and much more. And it is held at the Austria Centre Vienna (ACV) which is big enough to confuse even the most directionally gifted of us!
Categories: Conferences; Early Career Scientists; EGU GA 2023; General Assembly; Science Communication; Social Media; Vienna; conference networking; Conference tips; EGU24; European Geosciences Union General Assembly; First-timer's guide; geoscience conference; geoscience networking; vEGU24;

Jisc should not buy services that it does not want

In the first of two disapointing scholarly-communication announcements last week, Jisc announced its report on progress towards open access in the UK. The key finding is:
Categories: rants; stinkin' publishers; this isn't complicated;

Sea Level in New York City

Open Mind | 15 March, 2024
The New York Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) recently unveiled their latest projections for future sea level rise in New York City. You can view their presentation here, but in my opinion it's very boring. There has been a lot ... Continue reading ?...
Categories: Global Warming;

A Grassroots Organization Stops Exploratory Drilling in Chile

State of the Planet | 14 March, 2024
David trumps Goliath in this battle over natural resources....
Categories: GlacierHub; Chile; glacier loss; sustainable development;

South Dakota Tree-Following—Prairie Crabapple

Pyrus ioensis. 1913, Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Source.This month's tree-following report features another tree from South Dakota, part of my effort to learn more about the state's trees. There's a practical reason for this--I'm writing species de...
Categories: #treefollowing; Crabapple; Malus; South Dakota botany; trees;

AWS installation: La Paz, Bolivia

AntarcticGlaciers.org | 14 March, 2024
In June 2023, as part of our Deplete and Retreat project, Jeremy Ely, Tom Matthews, Wouter Buytaert and Jose Cuadros-Adriazola travelled to La Paz, Bolivia, to scope the installation of hydrological loggers and our automatic weather station at Zongo Glacier and Ancohoma, Bolivia.
Categories: Fieldwork; andes blog;

Nudibranch hunting in northern California: snapshots from winter tidepooling in Half Moon Bay, CA

I've always enjoyed tidepooling since I was a young kid - and once I left foggy northern California to go to Montana, an extremely land-locked state, I realized how lucky I was to have world-class tidepools just a half hour drive from my parent's house. I didn't have the opportunity in New Zealand (tidepools, yes, but no car) and here in South Carolina, we don't have any water clarity - and, to be honest, a pretty depauperate marine invertebrate fauna in comparison to the Pacific coast. Since our very belated honeymoon a few years ago to the Bahamas and our subsequent Caribbean Spring Break snorkeling trips, I've gotten more and more interested in it, and in 2022 Sarah and I bought Olympus TG6 cameras, recommended to me by Dr. Maureen Berg, a biologist at UC Berkeley who spends a bit of time tidepooling at some of my favorite spots - but with much higher success at finding nudibranchs. Until about three years ago, I had only ever seen one or two nudibranchs in the wild - I was thoroughly unimpressed when I was a kid, seeing a couple of yellow gelatinous blobs. While paddling a canoe in Drake's Estero with Dick Hilton in 2011 (just a month after Sarah and I got married, and a few months before we left for NZ), Dick noticed an opalescent nudibranch on a frond of giant kelp - and I was mesmerized. I had seen photographs, but never one in person - I couldn't believe how beautiful the little creature was. I really got hooked only a few years ago: on a visit to Fitzgerald Marine Preserve (Moss Beach, CA) on a good minus tide with Sarah (and about 200 of our closest friends - new years, 2022), we found about a dozen nudibranchs - all of them some of the 'boring' ones - sea lemons, Monterey dorids, an orange peel dorid, and a few San Diego dorids. That visit was the one where I decided I needed an underwater camera. In December 2022 and 2023 I visited a spot in Half Moon Bay a friend of mine recommended - I'll keep the location a secret for the time being (sorry!) since it's much less frequented. But, it's a good one: tons and tons of nudibranchs.
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How Climate Change Drives the Spread of Invasive Plants

State of the Planet | 12 March, 2024
Abetted by warmer climes, non-native species can take root and wreak havoc in new environments. Is there anything we can do about them?...
Categories: Climate; Ecology; climate change; cs highlights; explainers; invasive species; MPA in Environmental Science and Policy; MS in Sustainability Management; Sustainability;

Why were prehistoric sea creatures so tiny?

My friend Toby Lowther wrote to me back in December to ask this question:
Categories: size; whales;

Red Rover Goes to Mars, 20 years later

Planetary Society Weblog | 12 March, 2024
Twenty years ago, a Planetary Society program sent students to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to work on the Mars Exploration Rovers program....
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The End of the Tuolumne River! (It's not as bad as it sounds...)

Geotripper | 12 March, 2024
The slough at the headquarters area of Dos Rios State ParkBack in the 1980s, Douglas Adams published his hilarious "trilogy" of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe. The second book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, was not about a restau...
Categories: Dos Rios State Park; floodplain restoration; River Partners; San Joaquin River; Stanislaus County; Tuolumne River; Tuolumne River Trust;

Counseling patience on the current Colorado River kerfuffles

Inkstain (John Fleck) | 11 March, 2024
Despite the Sturm und Drang of last week's competing proposals to the federal government for managing drought and climate change on the Colorado River, there's a lot to be hopeful about.
Categories: Colorado River; water;

March Puzzler

Earth Matters | 11 March, 2024
Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The March 2024 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, and why it is interesting.  Ho...
Categories: EO's Satellite Puzzler; Earth; NASA; puzzler;

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