Monthly Archives: June 2012

Air conditioning as a positive climate feedback?

Could our need to cool ourselves increase our need to cool ourselves? Continue reading

Categories: climate science, environment, society

Avulsion: Anne’s new adventure

Most of the time, nothing much interesting happens to a river. It flows between its banks, carrying water and solutes, providing habitat and ecosystem services. If you look at a river, most of the time it looks roughly the same … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, by Anne

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

After a long hiatus, our weekly link-sharing extravaganza returns! Comprising the most interesting and notable things we have found around the internet in the last few days. Other posts on All-geo On Metageologist: Scotland, 1 billion years ago: an orogeny, … Continue reading

Categories: links

Scenic Saturday: 101 Geo-sites

Following the lead set by Callan Bentley, the list of “101 American Geo-sites you’ve gotta see” (as published in a new book by Albert Dickas) has been circulating the geoblogosphere. While it seems a bit exclusionary to our non-USian geo-colleagues, … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, outcrops, photos

Friday Focal Mechanisms: South Australian shaking keeps Chris guessing

A Friday focal mechanism…without a focal mechanism! Can the seismic past be the key to the present? Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, tectonics