Category Archives: ice and glaciers

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again: an introduction to How the Earth Works

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Chris Rowan

For a couple of years now, I’ve been telling a story at the beginning of the introductory geology course I teach, called How the Earth Works. I like to think it gives a flavour of the kinds of stories you can tell about the Earth, if you know how to look: stories of how the world slowly remakes itself over hundreds of millions of years, of how the very high was once the very low, and will be again. This is that story. Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, basics, deep time, geology, geomorphology, ice and glaciers, outcrops, past worlds, rocks & minerals, science education, tectonics

Conifers capture the snow, but do they intercept it?

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Anne Jefferson

If you’ve walked through the forest on a rainy day and noticed that it’s drier under the trees, you’ve experienced interception. In hydrology, interception is when water gets hung up on vegetative leaves, needles, or branches and never makes it … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, hydrology, ice and glaciers, photos

August climate impacts stories: Hurricane Harvey, other climate change fueled-floods, and more

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Anne Jefferson

August 30th: Harvey reminds us that we should treat climate change as we treat other public health threats. That’s the argument in this New York Times op-ed: Harvey, the storm that humans helped cause. August 29th: The most sobering hot-take … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, climate science, hydrology, ice and glaciers, links

#365climateimpacts: A crazy February heatwave and a tornado warning on March 1 (February 16-March 3)

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Anne Jefferson

Here are two more weeks of daily climate change impacts stories, as part of my #365climateimpacts project. I didn’t have to go very far from home to find inspiration for this fornight of tweets. We had an incredibly unusual heat … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, climate science, geohazards, hydrology, ice and glaciers

#365climateimpacts: Snow, ice, flooding, and football (February 1-15)

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Anne Jefferson

In January, I launched the #365climateimpacts project, in which I’ll spend a year tweeting stories of the many ways climate change is impacting people, ecosystems, and the earth; ideas for how to communicate about climate change more effectively; and analyses … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, climate science, environment, hydrology, ice and glaciers