Author Archives: Anne Jefferson

How to build a meandering river in your basement

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Anne Jefferson

Meandering rivers are the most common river form on Earth, yet building a meandering river in a laboratory flume eluded scientists for decades. A new paper in PNAS shows the first results of a self-maintaining, coarse-bedded meandering river in a flume.
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Categories: by Anne, geomorphology

Geobloggers need your help to give kids the Earth (Science)

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Anne Jefferson

This year the collective of geo-bloggers is getting in on the DonorsChoose challenge and trying to fund projects that bring Earth Science into the classroom (or bring classrooms outside onto the Earth).
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Categories: bloggery, by Anne

Water in the sky, rocks underfoot, and a little stream to carry it all

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Anne Jefferson

The two isolated mountains in Crowders Mountain State Park (NC) have withstood 500 million years of erosion, will they survive a gray and drizzly day with a hydrologist?
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Categories: by Anne, outcrops, photos

Chris takes on geo-engineering on SeedMagazine.com

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Anne Jefferson

At SEEDMAGAZINE.com, Chris offers up a geologist’s perspective on the latest assessment of geo-engineering schemes to use technology to deter on-going climate change.
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Categories: by Anne, climate science, links

Anthropogenic biomes

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Anne Jefferson

“Anthropogenic biomes are in many ways a more accurate description of broad ecological patterns within the current terrestrial biosphere than are conventional biome systems that describe vegetation patterns based on variations in climate and geology.”
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Categories: environment