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  • Earthquake M 5.1, northern Italy (USGS, January 25 2012)


    A TIME'S MEMORY — Authority Authority: 434
    [Source: USGS, full text: ( LINK ).] Earthquake M 5.1, northern Italy ‎25 January ‎2012 Wednesday, January 25, 2012 08:06:35 UTC Wednesday, January 25, 2012 09:06:35 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.20 km (6.34 mi)       - ------
    1 week ago

  • US Government Looking To Lower Landsat Costs


    GeoData Policy — Authority Authority: 459
    By Debra Werner, Space News, January 20, 2012 U.S. government agencies are working together to look for ways to reduce the cost of future Landsat missions as a result of congressional direction included in the 2012 budget passed in December. “Although Congress has provided $2 million to the U.S. Geological Service ...
    1 week ago

  • TheOilDrum.com Archive 2005-2011


    Bear Market Investments — Authority Authority: 129
    During the past seven years, TheOilDrum.com has hosted analysis and discussion surrounding the possibility and implications of a near term peak in global oil production and importance of energy to society in general. Out of the ~8,500 articles posted here (all searchable by keyword in upper left), the list below ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Tech Talk – Oil Production from the Volga-Ural Basin


    Bear Market Investments — Authority Authority: 129
    In the last post on the oil and gas fields of the Northern Caucasus , I commented that one of the reasons that these older oil and gas fields were being further developed was due to the introduction of advanced Western techniques. As John Grace points out in “ Russian Oil Supply , another reason that there are ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Midwest Fishing Report: Ice fishing sets up


    Stray Casts — Authority Authority: 113
    Safe ice is spreading southward, and enough should build through this week to hold during the weekend warm-up; so ice fishing leads this Midwest Fishing Report. Marcy Paschky at Hermanns Lowlife Bar & Grill sent the photo above from Nielsens Channel off the Fox River on Sunday at Port Barrington. ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Funding Restored for 18 Champlain Basin Streamgages


    Adirondack Almanack — Authority Authority: 468
    U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) have announced that they have secured funding to prevent the imminent shutdown of 18 United States Geological Survey (USGS) river and lake gauges in the Lake Champlain basin. Those gauges - nine in Vermont and nine in New York - were seen as ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Coral Reef Disease in Hawaii


    Geology News — Authority Authority: 123
    “Scientists have discovered an outbreak of coral disease called Montipora White Syndrome in Kāneʿohe Bay, Oʿahu. The affected coral are of the species Montipora capitata, also known as rice coral. Rice corals provide valuable habitat, shelter, and foraging grounds for a variety of tropical marine fish and ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Effects of Urbanization on Stream Ecosystems


    Geology News — Authority Authority: 123
    “Development can have negative effects on streams in urban and suburban areas. As a watershed becomes covered with pavement, sidewalks, and other types of urban land cover, stream organisms are confronted with an increased volume of storm water runoff, increased exposure to fertilizers and pesticides, and dramatic ...
    2 weeks ago

  • India Gas Shale Assessment


    Geology News — Authority Authority: 123
    USGS has released a a fact sheet titled: “ Assessment of Potential Shale Gas Resources of the Bombay, Cauvery, and Krishna–Godavari Provinces, India , 2011 “.
    2 weeks ago

  • National Forest Map and GIS Data


    GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems — Authority Authority: 104
    What areas of the United States contain the densest amount of woody biomass?  Showing the conterminous United States, the intensity of biomass (a measure of the amount of organic carbon—stored in the trunks, limbs, and leaves of trees) has been mapped out with a baseline year of 2000.  The darkest green areas are ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Connecting People and Urban Streams


    Geology News — Authority Authority: 123
    Faith Fitzpatrick outlines the importance of habitat to the health of streams and shows examples of connecting people to urban streams through rehabilitation efforts across the USA.
    2 weeks ago

  • USGS: 100 Years of Volcano Monitoring


    Geology News — Authority Authority: 123
    “This year, the USGS is proud to celebrate 100 years of continuous volcano monitoring in the United States. Monitoring began in 1912, when Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr., of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) in the then U.S. territory of Hawai‘i.” Quoted from ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Could this earthquake uptick be linked to more pole shifting?


    Issues On Call — Authority Authority: 109
    from ScienceNews.org... Pole flips tied to plate tectonics Lopsided arrangement of continents could lead to reversals in Earths magnetic field By Alexandra Witze Continents moving around over millions of years in the slow-motion geologic jigsaw puzzle known as plate tectonics could trigger the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Busting Sealant Myths: "Flawed" USGS Studies


    Coal Tar Free America — Authority Authority: 89
    That old saying that a lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on has never been truer than with this myth.  Dozens of times industry representatives and scientists have made this claim.  Some have even begun to add colorful modifiers like "grossly flawed" or "seriously flawed."  Maybe ...
    2 weeks ago

  • TheOilDrum.com Archive 2005-2011


    Bear Market Investments — Authority Authority: 129
    During the past seven years, TheOilDrum.com has hosted analysis and discussion surrounding the possibility and implications of a near term peak in global oil production and importance of energy to society in general. Out of the ~8,500 articles posted here (all searchable by keyword in upper left), the list below ...
    3 weeks ago

  • USGS Study:Asian Carp a Threat to Lake Erie


    1490 NewsBlog — Authority Authority: 431
    A federal study says Lake Erie and some rivers flowing into it would offer ideal habitat for Asian carp, the invasive species that could threaten the Great Lakes’ multi-billion dollar fishing and recreation industry. The U.S. Geological Survey says the Maumee, Sandusky and Grand rivers have temperatures and water ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Indonesia Suffers 7.3 Earthquake And Tsunami, Much Better …


    #1 One Celebrity — Authority Authority: 141
    Video about 7.3 Quake can be found everywhere. This may not relevant, just tell what you thing about this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDHHLR3rOmw Attached from the Christian Science Monitor: AKARTA, INDONESIA Just hours after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of western Indonesia early ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Midwest Fishing Report: Winter comes in


    Stray Casts — Authority Authority: 113
    I am a little troubled how to word this Midwest Fishing Report as we are about to finally enter winter. Everything will have changed--from river fishing, where guys were getting out and catching fish for the past week, to local ponds and lakes, which have been largely covered with unsafe thin ice. Safe ice ...
    3 weeks ago

  • 7.3 Quake Rocks Indonesia: No Damage or Injuries Reported


    Blippitt.com — Authority Authority: 624
    A magnitude 7.3 quake struck west of Sumatra, Indonesia overnight causing locals to flee from their homes and prompting a brief tsunami warning. Fortunately, no one was injured and there was no damage reported. The quake struck at 12:37 a.m. local time about 260 miles southwest of Banda Aceh , according to the ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Dallas earthquake not caused by fracking… And neither was the Ohio quake.


    Watts Up With That? — Authority Authority: 695
    Guest post by David Middleton Wow! I woke up Friday morning to news that a 2.0 Md earthquake struck about a mile and a half from my office. I was sleeping at home, about 7 miles from the epicenter, and … Continue reading →
    3 weeks ago

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