Category Archives: by Anne

Earth Science Week Challenge Day 3: Whether the Weather

Trying to rally the geologists to fund a weather project through DonorsChoose.
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Categories: by Anne, science education

A challenge for Earth Science Week

Here in the US, we’re celebrating Earth Science Week and the lead-up to the Geological Society of America meeting. What better time to inspire the next generation of earth scientists and earth science aficionados by helping make sure that good, … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, general science, science education

How to build a meandering river in your basement

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)

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

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