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For lot's more videos on soil moisture topics, see Drs Selker and Or's text-book support videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoMb5YOZuaGtn8pZyQMSLuQ/playlists
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Author Archives: Chris Rowan
Are “steady-state” systems ahistorical?
I’m currently back reading “Earth’s Deep History” by Martin Rudwick, and once again I am being annoyed by what seems to me to be a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of what is meant by “steady state” in the context of Earth … Continue reading
No chatbots please, we’re scientists
This story about backlash to an earth science specific chatbot at EGU seems to detail a lot of insider politicking that seems only obliquely related to the concerns over the use of Large Learning Models for scientific research and writing. … Continue reading
Golden spike or no golden spike – we are living in the Anthropocene
This is not going to go well. After 15 years of discussion and exploration…Twelve members of the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) voted against the proposal to create an Anthropocene epoch, while only four voted for it. To be … Continue reading
We are late bending the climate change curve – but bending it still matters
The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic introduced us to the idea of ‘bending the curve’: that acting early to reduce infection rates made a huge difference in whether the peak in infections was manageable or not. The exponential nature … Continue reading
The changing picture of the Martian core
It’s now been almost a year since NASA’s InSight lander – home of the first seismograph ever deployed on Mars – was declared dead. But the picture of the Red Planet’s interior being deduced from the four years of seismic … Continue reading
Nice plan for content warnings on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Now you need a Mastodon/Fediverse button on this blog.