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Category Archives: earth science
Climbing Up the Middle of a Pluton
I am by no means a climber, but I love rocks and have a great appreciation for people who choose to spend hours and hours with their faces inches away from rocks. I have climbed a few times, and I really got a kick … Continue reading
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John Perry, Lord Kelvin, and radioactive decay
I’ll admit I am behind on Cosmos. I’ve watched some of the originals on Netflix, and plan on binge watching the Neil deGrasse Tyson version soon. Tyson is one of the best ambassadors of science we’ve heard from in a long time, … Continue reading
For the Love of Field Trips
Years ago I was asked to fill out a survey that dealt with the recruitment and retention of geology majors. Specifically, many schools have introduced environmental science majors which have siphoned off potential geologists**, generally draining students from the more … Continue reading
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Developing a sense of place
I’ve noticed a few common threads in the books, movies, and songs that I like the most. For whatever reason, I tend to respond to media that describes place well. It wasn’t something that I did on purpose, but something I … Continue reading
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The Well Written Geologist part 2 – Walter Alvarez
I’ll being by stating the obvious, that I want to learn the old Italian songs that the geologists like to sing in the evening. My first GSA was in 1997, I was an undergraduate and it was my first time … Continue reading
The Well Written Geologist part 1 – Hans Cloos
There is a ton of great outdoors and nature writing. I’ve been slowing working my way through National Geographic’s list of the 100 best adventure books of all time, for example (not in order), and books like A Beast the … Continue reading
Why we do so little about climate change
As I’ve discussed in earlier posts, the evidence showing that humans are causing climate change, and that the change will be bad for our society, is well-established, overwhelmingly accepted in the scientific community, and to a first-order, not too difficult … Continue reading
Peer Reviewed Humor 2 – The simplest of all summaries
In an earlier post I wrote about one of my favorite published responses of all time. Part two of this series on geohumor, or peer reviewed and published humor more broadly, comes from a 1974 paper in the Bulletin of … Continue reading
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Glades of Flowering Stone: Gimli Would Make a Great Geologist
I spend a lot of time on a microscope, picking minerals for thermochronology. You have to pay attention, but it isn’t something that requires a lot of thought, just vigilance and steady hands. To help pass the hours then, I … Continue reading
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Teaching Climate Change – part 3, online resources
This is part 3 of a multi-post series on my experience teaching about climate change. To read part 1 which deals with my overall course philosophy, click here. To read part 2, which deals with the external readings and discussions … Continue reading
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