Carbon Sequestration in Pennsylvania Posted: 31 Aug 2009 10:56 PM PDT The Pennsylvania Geological Survey has a news page dedicated to carbon sequestration in Pennsylvania. A quote from their page: “Pennsylvania has an estimated carbon storage capacity – including croplands, forest lands, minelands, and wetlands, and most prominently in geologic formations – to store hundreds of years worth of carbon emissions at present rates.” |
| Posted: 31 Aug 2009 10:51 PM PDT Economists using satellite images? Researchers at Brown University are looking at changes in the density of light to estimate the growth in GDP of developing countries. Get a closer look at an “Earth At Night Image“. |
| Posted: 31 Aug 2009 07:58 PM PDT Early in the day on Tuesday Hurricane Jimena is expected to make landfall on the west side of the Baja Peninsula. The National Hurricane Information Center calls Jimena “an extremely dangerous category four hurricane“. |
| Posted: 31 Aug 2009 07:49 PM PDT An article on the LA Times websites presents some history about the Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, California. There Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is much larger than anyone ever imagined and that it is expanding. |
| Iridescence in Fossil Bird Feathers Posted: 31 Aug 2009 05:06 PM PDT “A team of paleontologists and ornithologists has discovered evidence of vivid iridescent colors in fossil feathers more than 40 million years old. Discovery of a color-producing nanostructure in a fossil feather opens up the possibility that we may someday be able to determine such colors in fossil birds, as well as in feathered dinosaurs.” Quoted [...] |
| Visit to the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Posted: 31 Aug 2009 11:22 AM PDT “A thousand miles off California, the North Pacific Ocean Gyre contains one of the oldest and largest ecosystems on Earth–but it may be in danger from a deluge of accumulated plastic trash. Dubbed the “Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch,” the debris at the center of the North Pacific Ocean has the potential to damage marine [...] |
| Posted: 31 Aug 2009 09:45 AM PDT In an interesting article in The Arizona Republic, Robert Glennon, a law professor, tells a story about a steel company liquidating its assets. They sold nearly 2000 acres of prime real estate, their plant and equipment, an iron-ore mine and other valuable assets – but their water rights were sold for more than all [...] |
| Posted: 31 Aug 2009 07:55 AM PDT You can now download a detailed geologic map of Pennsylvania as a .pdf document. This is a scanned copy of the paper 1:250,000-scale bedrock geology map in three sheets (each as a separate .pdf document). State geologic map GIS datasets are also available. |
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