Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 12, 2010, 1:49 am
“A study of seismic activity near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport by researchers from SMU and UT-Austin reveals that the operation of a saltwater injection disposal well in the area was a �...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 12, 2010, 12:29 am
Posted on The Volcanism Blog is a photo essay of “The Ecological Impact of the Chaiten Eruption” by Frederick J. Swanson (U.S. Forest Service), Charlie Crisafulli (U.S. Forest Service), Julia A. J...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 11, 2010, 11:02 pm
An article in the New York times points to the enormous enthusiasm for renewable energy projects. However, many in the energy industry believe that the ability of renewable energy to make a substanti...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 11, 2010, 10:05 pm
Will the natural gas contained in America’s shale be providing energy for the next 100 years? The CERAWeek conference looks at the future of U.S. shale gas.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 11, 2010, 10:05 pm
This is an interview with Sally Ride, the first U.S. female in space. She would like to encourage young people, particularly girls, to become more interested in science.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 11, 2010, 10:30 am
Chile has been hit by repeated and numerous aftershocks since the 8.8 magnitude earthquake of February 27th. Today a 7.2 aftershock shook large parts of the country.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 11, 2010, 1:33 am
“The massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the west coast of Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west, and shifted other parts of South America as far...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 11, 2010, 1:19 am
Earth Observatory has a new image of Chaiten Volcano showing a new lava dome about 2000 meters across that almost completely fills the caldera produced by the 2008 eruption.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 11, 2010, 12:21 am
Although international oil companies such as ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP were not pioneers in the development of United States gas shales they are now working to acquire positions in Europe.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 10, 2010, 11:54 pm
“Two massive icebergs drifted along the coast of East Antarctica in early March 2010. In mid-February 2010, the Rhode Island-sized Iceberg B-09B collided with the protruding Mertz Glacier Tongue alo...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 10, 2010, 11:44 pm
A company building a natural gas pipeline on the floor of the Baltic Sea discovered a dozen sunken ships that are thought to be between 300 and 400 years old.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 10, 2010, 11:03 pm
According to the USGS, around 50% of Americans get their water from a well. If you are one of these people, now is a good time to have a checkup performed on your well and ground water.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 10, 2010, 10:26 pm
The Department of Energy is awarding a $154 million grant to NRG Energy, a company that will create a carbon capture and storage project at a 60-megawatt coal-burning power plant in Texas.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 10, 2010, 10:06 pm
Here’s your chance to participate in a professionally planned and guided trip sponsored by the Geological Society of America’s GeoVentures Program. The trip is for GSA student members on July 30 ...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 10, 2010, 12:18 am
“Thick ice stranded dozens of ships in the Baltic Sea in late February and early March 2010. By March 5, icebreakers had managed to free the vessels that collectively carried thousands of passengers...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 5, 2010, 1:29 am
A new fossil discovery was made in Tanzania of a dinosaur-like creature that lived about 10 million years before the first dinosaur. Characteristics of this animal suggests that the first dinosaur mi...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 5, 2010, 12:30 am
The purpose of the TransCanada pipeline is to transport crude from Canadian oil sands to refineries on the United States Gulf Coast. Now producers of crude in Montana and North Dakota want to use the...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 5, 2010, 12:06 am
“Planetary scientists have been puzzling for years over the honeycomb patterns and flat valleys with squiggly edges evident in radar images of Saturn’s moon Titan. Now, working with a “volunteer...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 4, 2010, 11:55 pm
CNN has a photo gallery of wind power generation in Denmark. The country produces about 20% of its electricity from wind.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 4, 2010, 11:35 pm
A fancy vivid blue pear-shaped diamond, one of only twelve stones in the De Beers Millennium collection, is soon to go up for bidding. When Sotheby’s holds the auction in Hong Kong next month, the r...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 4, 2010, 10:35 pm
What will happen if the human species just can’t stop polluting the air? One backup plan to save the atmosphere is geoengineering the oceans, which this article discusses.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 4, 2010, 7:35 pm
The way airports dispose of trash and practice recycling differs from city to city and also depends on individual airlines. Consequentially, recycling is not always a readily available option for trav...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 4, 2010, 7:31 pm
A 12-year-old girl rang the tsunami warning bell after Saturday’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile and most likely saved the lives of her neighbors.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 4, 2010, 12:16 am
A blog post on the Ground Truth Trekking Blog documents efforts to observe the Chile tsunami in locations such as Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka (Russia) and Seldovia, Alaska.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Mar 3, 2010, 11:35 pm
A new technology will change the way we explore the oceans. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has developed wireless video communication underwater at a speed close to real time. This will be very ...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 27, 2010, 1:37 pm
Two companies have submitted applications to the Minerals Management Service to construct wind farms about 12 miles offshore of Virginia Beach.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 27, 2010, 1:35 pm
The White River tephra is an ashfall produced by an eruption of Mount Churchill Volcano that blanketed much of east-central Alaska and adjacent parts of Canada about 1000 years ago. DNA evidence fr...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 27, 2010, 1:22 pm
Early results in the Utica Shale Gas Play in Quebec, Canada has wells producing over 10 million cubic feet of gas per day. Some believe that the play could contain over 20 trillion cubic feet of natu...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 27, 2010, 9:47 am
Early results from the USGS “Did you feel it?” map shows that this morning’s earthquake in Chile was felt across the southern part of the South American continent.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 27, 2010, 8:45 am
Lots of news articles related to the earthquake in Chile are starting to appear on the internet. To view headlines from a number of these articles check Google News.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 27, 2010, 7:41 am
NOAA’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has a SEVERE widespread warning, watch and advisory in effect in response to the 8.8M Chile earthquake. Visit their website for specific information for variou...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 27, 2010, 7:34 am
The Pacific Tsunami Center has issued the following warning for the State of Hawaii in response to the 8.8 M earthquake that occurred this morning in Chile. “A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 27, 2010, 7:28 am
A massive earthquake occurred along the coast of Chile at 3:34 AM local time. This is a very large earthquake that ruptured the boundary between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates. The USG...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 26, 2010, 1:37 pm
“The chemical composition of our oceans is not constant but has varied significantly over geological time. In a study published in the February 26, 2010 edition of Science, researchers describe a no...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 26, 2010, 12:36 pm
Sauropod skulls are extremely rare and only a few complete ones have been found. BYU researchers have found the first complete sauropod skulls known from the Cretaceous of the Western Hemisphere in ...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 23, 2010, 1:30 am
A new discovery by researchers at Oregon State University suggests that it is unlikely that birds descended from known theropod dinosaurs.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 23, 2010, 12:47 am
Since 1857 over 500 rockfalls in Yosemite Valley have killed 14 people and injured 62. Now over 200 cabins are off limits to visitors because they are in an area with a high incidence of rockfalls. ...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 23, 2010, 12:39 am
Texas leads the nation in the production of wind power, and new solar projects there might win the state the top producer position for both forms of renewable energy.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 23, 2010, 12:15 am
This video discusses how scientists have tracked what, when, and how contaminants may reach public-supply wells in four aquifers in California, Connecticut, Nebraska, and Florida.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 22, 2010, 8:05 pm
This isn’t geology-related, but we thought it was pretty neat. It’s a collection of 12 optical illusions that will have you wondering if the images are animated, or if your eyes really are playing...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 22, 2010, 7:35 pm
DNA testing and CT scans have been performed on 16 mummies, and have shown that King Tutankhamun had some physical ailments due to genes from his sibling parents. The tests have also confirmed some of...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 22, 2010, 2:05 pm
A new gadget will soon take the guesswork out of saving energy in UK homes. The “Wattbox” will allow people to clearly understand how much energy they are using at any given time. The machine is d...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 22, 2010, 12:14 pm
Ice shelves are retreating along the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in glacier retreat and sea-level rise if warming continues. In this podcast, USGS scientist Jane Fer...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 22, 2010, 2:49 am
This month’s Eco Solutions video from CNN covers a variety of topics: farming bluefin tuna; poaching endangered animals such as tigers and moon bears for ingredients in TCM (traditional Chinese medi...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 21, 2010, 11:09 pm
A plume towered above the summit of Klyuchevskaya Volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on February 13, 2010, when NASA’s Terra satellite captured this false-color image. Directly over the summi...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 19, 2010, 1:35 am
Last week, we visited the 2010 Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Showcase in Tucson, AZ – and it was unbelievable! We took lots of pictures to share with you. Even if you weren’t able to attend, you can st...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 19, 2010, 12:26 am
An article on the Reuters website reports that the United States economy will lose $2.4 trillion over the next twenty years if currently restricted onshore and offshore areas are not opened to oil and...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 18, 2010, 11:17 pm
This video from CNN shows how Mars Chocolate company has implemented solar panels to help run its factory.
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 18, 2010, 10:34 pm
“Students in a Landscape Architecture Design 1 course at a research university in the southern US developed design solutions implementing geologic time for an informal education site. Those students...
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Hobart K. posted an article on Geology.com - Feb 18, 2010, 9:11 pm
Conoco, BP and Caterpillar have decided to leave the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an organization with a goal of bringing business and environmental groups together to promote climate change legis...
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