Ice Cores and Climate Change Video Posted: 16 Sep 2009 11:29 PM PDT In this video, Penn State professor Richard Alley, one of the world’s leading climate researchers, explores some of the basic research behind climate change and explains how climate change might impact our future. He is interviewed by Patty Satalia, host of the Penn State “Conversations” interview series. |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2009 08:41 PM PDT The Wyoming Geological Survey has a free booklet titled: “Searching for Gold in Wyoming” by W. Dan Hausel. It covers the basic types of gold deposits and includes a mineralized areas map and references. You can download it as a .pdf document. |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2009 08:20 PM PDT “Biodiesel is a renewable fuel for diesel engines derived from natural oils like soybean oil. But the term is also used to describe a blend of biodiesel with petroleum diesel.” The Energy Information Administration has an article titled “Some Biodiesel Basics” featured on their “This Week in Petroleum” page. |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2009 07:49 PM PDT “We have observed the ozone hole again in 2009, and it appears to be pretty average so far,” said ozone researcher Paul Newman of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “However, we won’t know for another four weeks how this year’s ozone hole will fully develop.” Quoted from the Earth Observatory press [...] |
| More Geologists for the National Park Service? Posted: 16 Sep 2009 07:38 PM PDT Lee Allison reports that the number of geologists in the National Park Service Geologic Resources Division has decreased from 20 down to just 9 and parks that were founded on the basis of their geological features do not have a single geologist on their staff. |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2009 07:29 PM PDT Mayon Volcano in the Philippines produced a small ash and gas eruption on September 15th. More details at the Eruptions Blog. |
| New Federal Leasing and Royalty Rules? Posted: 16 Sep 2009 07:09 PM PDT Nick Rahall, Chairman of the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced a bill that could change the rules for leasing and paying royalties on mineral, oil and natural gas activities on public lands. |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2009 07:03 PM PDT If you need graph paper, here is a website where you can download a .pdf file and print as many sheets as you need. You can find grid paper, axis paper, isometric paper, ternary paper, polar paper and more. |
| CoRoT-7b: First Rocky Planet Outside Our Solar System Posted: 16 Sep 2009 06:50 PM PDT CoRoT-7b is a tiny planet discovered by the CoRoT space telescope. It is the first rocky planet to be discovered outside of our solar system. Its orbit is less than 2 million miles out from its parent star and has a diameter about 80% larger than Earth’s. |
Thursday, September 17, 2009
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