I suppose it was only a matter of time before water-related linkage merited it’s own separate category….
Blogs in motion
The great blog redistribution of 2010 continues: check out Abel, Zuska, and Bora’s new digs. In the geoblogosphere, Julia is now posting at Stages of Succession.
Volcanoes
- Extremely cool Friday ‘field’ photo from @clasticdetritus): an aerial view of Mt. St. Helens during a flight from Vancouver to Oakland.
http://clasticdetritus.com/2010/07/23/friday-field-foto-118-mt-st-helens-from-the-air/ - The Hawaiian Lava Daily blog has great pictures of recent Kilauea lava flows.
http://hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com/2010/07/molten-lava-continues-breaking-out.html
And awesome video footage too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xc_GCHK9Ro - Recent Al Jazeera report on Lusi mud volcano, with some footage of vent at 1:10
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=boyJ18EAFNY - Deepest ever hydrothermal ecosystem found 16,000 ft (>4 km) down on Cayman Rise, Caribbean. More accurately, a plume has been detected; not yet visited by submersibles.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/deepest-hydrothermal-vent/
Fossils
- The new Torosaurus=Triceratops study. Have to wonder, is adults and juveniles being classified as different species a common paleontological problem?
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2010/07/22/new-study-says-torosaurustriceratops
(by @Laelaps) - Larry Witmer’s top-notch paleo lab has just launched a new blog, Pick & Scalpel –
http://witmerlab.wordpress.com/
(via @Laelaps)
(Paleo)climate
- Geoenginerering by atmospheric aerosol injection ‘an even more temporary [climate] fix than expected’ : will cause long-term decline in rainfall, effects will vary significantly by region.
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100718/full/news.2010.357.html
(by @NatureNews)
The Economist also discusses on practical & political difficulties arising from aerosol injection (agreeing to action may be just as difficult as negotiating emissions cuts. Shocking…
http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2010/07/green_view - Modelling suggests white ‘cool’ roofs help mitigate AGW. Interesting: last year’s Royal Society geoengineering report was rather dismissive of any potential benefits..
http://www.physorg.com/news198771089.html - ‘The Earth will survive’ is a true but meaningless statement when talking about climate change. Why do people not see that civilisation is far more vulnerable than planet?
http://scienceblogs.com/classm/2010/07/the_earth_will_survive.php
(by @hrynyshyn) - Lake Superior, a Natural Global Warming Gauge, Running a Fever. Water temperature is currently 15C higher than normal for this time of year. Scary.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lake-superior-a-natural-global-warming-gauge-is-running-a-fever
(via @tpenews) - “hot is the new normal” : and yet the US Senate can’t get its act together on climate legislation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/business/economy/21leonhardt.html
(via @Eaterofsun) - Hotter summers in North Carolina, ugh. Southeast is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. New EPA Report
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100722/NEWS01/7220331/Southeast-may-be-vulnerable-to-worst-of-global-warming-s-effects
(via @watercrunch) - New NRC report: emissions choices today have implications for global climate on the scale of millennia.
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/nrc-climate-stabilization-targets-report/
(via @KHayhoe)
Water
- Confidence in China’s Three Gorges dam is waning, as floods raise questions on its capacity.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/7934450/floods-put-pressure-on-dam
(via @argillic, @Eye_On_Earth)
Wow at photos of flood hunters beside the Three Gorges Dam.
- Interesting piece on Nile water rights dispute & the ignored ecological consequences. Egypt & Sudan have Nile water rights; upstream nations like Ethiopia do not. Treaty drawn up in 1959. By Britain. Sigh.
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2297
(via @YaleE360) - Inflatable dam in Arizona bursts. Literally, it seems.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/07/20/20100720tempelake0720-ON.html
Why have an inflatable dam, you ask? So can be lowered when water released from upstream dams, preventing flooding
http://www.tempe.gov/lake/lakehistory/dams.htm - Rafters Push For ‘Right To Float’ In Colorado [Water is public, but if you touch rock, it’s tresspassing.]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128619563&f=1007&sc=tw
(via @nprscience) - 8 freely available global datasets on flood and drought hazards – [Sweet!]
http://geoserver.isciences.com/DataBlog/?p=2544
(via @isciences) - First in time,first in time. How groundwater can change the West’s water doctrine.
http://www.activelymovingwater.com/2010/07/first-in-time-first-in-time-how.html
(via @WaterWired, @loticwater) - Chile plans seven big dams in Patagonia wilderness
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/329/5990/382
(by @WanderingGaia)
Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- A huge relief: Gulf oil dispersants unlikely to be endocrine disruptors and have relatively low cell toxicity .
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100721133217.htm
(via @rivrchik, @greenforyou) - Stop the Sand Berms, Scientists Plead – In an open letter to Thad W. Allen.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/stop-the-sand-berms-scientists-plead/
(via @argillic, @WaterSISWEB) - A timely ponderable from (via @olelog): oil spill in Gulf of Mexico is small beer compared to ongoing oil spills in Nigeria"
http://my.opera.com/nielsol/blog/2010/07/22/nigerian-oil-spills - Oil industry lobbying to keep on deepwater drilling as if Gulf of Mexico oil spill never happened.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66J2WW20100720
General Geology
- Forensic geology: from Sherlock Holmes to war crimes investigations.
http://historyofgeology.blogspot.com/2010/07/csi-geology-forensic-geosciences-and.html - Is the concept of deep time becoming a culturally significant ‘meme’ ? I can’t say I’m convinced it’s particularly entrenched in popular thinking: it still needs geologists out there pushing.
http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/geologic-time-is-now/
(via @Geoblogfeed) - Big Bend National Park [Gorgeous geology image]
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=44670
(from @NASA_EO)
Interesting Miscellaney
- Great post on why none of the advanced civilizations in the New World used wheeled vehicles
http://gamblershouse.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/why-no-wheels/
(via @davemunger) - Is there anywhere left for the Higgs boson to hide? [Are there sofas at CERN? I’d look there]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/jul/23/higgs-boson-ichep-high-energy
(via @guardianscience) - Jules Verne, in new translations repairing the cuts and idiocy of earlier ones, is suddenly a hot sci-fi writer.
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/07/20/the_casle_in_transylvania_jules_verne/index.html
(via @ebertchicago) - Some worrying signs UK research councils may start squabbling for scraps of much smaller funding pie (via )
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100720/full/466420b.html
(via @alicebell) - Fascinating stuff from @edyong209: How I got my genes tested, and the birth of Science Writer Disease Risk Top Trumps
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/07/21/how-i-got-my-genes-tested-and-the-birth-of-science-writer-disease-risk-top-trumps/ - "Agora." A pagan woman mathematician fights to save the Library of Alexandria. My review is now online.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100721/REVIEWS/100729996
(via @ebertchicago) - Fascinating post by Prof Like Substance on tenure track hiring in ecology with BEST EVER analogy for academic science
http://proflikesubstance.blogspot.com/2010/07/job-data-in-ecology-and-evolution.html - How scientists see the world [seems about right!]
(via @YSJournal, @PolymerPhD, @JacquelynGill)
Nice plan for content warnings on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Now you need a Mastodon/Fediverse button on this blog.