Category Archives: by Anne

Blog Action Day: Water! (And floods! energy! education!)

Sneaking in another Friday Floods post, this time perfectly coinciding with Earth Science Week and Blog Action Day‘s focus on Water. My offering for this day is actually a guest post at AGU’s Geospace blog, where I had the privilege … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, hydrology, science education

Oregon’s fossil forests

Today is National Fossil Day, and half way through Earth Science Week. In honor of the occasion, I present a few notes and photos from a trip I took with my botanist mother to the John Day Fossil Beds in … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, Cenozoic, fossils, outcrops

Quick programming notes

It’s Earth Science Week. I hope you all are busy spreading the fun and science of the Earth this week. Chris is in the lab dungeon collecting paleomagnetic data and I’m alternately in proposal purgatory and grading jail (i.e., the … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, by Anne

Teaming up with DonorsChoose to bring Earth Science to schools

Last year we raised $10,000 for earth science education. This year we’re going to do even more to bring needed supplies, books, and field experiences to science classrooms around the US. Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, science education

Flood! In the middle of Australia’s Outback?!

Without question, the most important geologic experiences in my career have been floods. I grew up on the Upper Mississippi River in southern Minnesota and decided I wanted to study rivers during the Great Flood of 1993. Four years later, … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, geohazards, hydrology