June 19, 2018
Energy Notes: April 2012-2013
U.S. Oil & Petroleum Imports (millions of barrels per day) Oil and petroleum imports data are preliminary numbers taken from the American …
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August 2013
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June 13, 2018
Mineral Resource of the Month: Kyanite
Arnold O. Tanner, a mineral commodity specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey, compiled the following information on kyanite and related …
December 15, 2014
Benchmarks: August 3, 1769: The La Brea Tar Pits are described
Long before Los Angeles’ infamous traffic packed the pavement of Wilshire Boulevard, the area teemed with hundreds of species of Ice Age animals …
August 27, 2013
Bare Earth Elements: Rim Fire Roundup
[UPDATED Aug. 27, 3:15 p.m. EDT: According to the most recent information from Cal Fire, the burn area has now grown to 726 square kilometers …
August 14, 2013
On the web: Mount St. Helens goes online to reach the masses
If you’ve ever felt the mysterious allure of volcanoes — both terrifying and spectacular — you can now experience the infamous eruption of Mount …
August 14, 2013
Trans-Niño years could foster tornado outbreaks
In 2011, more than 1,600 confirmed tornadoes touched down in the United States. The twisters killed more than 550 people, injured more than …
August 14, 2013
Building resource corridors in Afghanistan: A solution to an interminable war?
Afghanistan has been ravaged by decades-long conflicts that have left it economically depressed, but the country also holds a potentially huge …
August 14, 2013
Rescuing data from the dark
Along with the proliferation of techniques and technologies to deal with Big Data — the large volumes of data coming in from global sensors and …
August 14, 2013
Digitizing Earth: Developing a cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences
A glance into a geoscientist’s office will usually reveal fossils, rocks, old maps and field notebooks, pieces of cores or other samples crowding …
August 5, 2013
Geologic Column: Assessing energy and mining workforce needs
In his 1971 book, “Encounters with the Archdruid,” John McPhee quoted Charles Park, an economic geologist who worked at the U.S. Geological …
August 5, 2013
Core skills in the geosciences: The geoblogosphere chimes in on what students need to know
Last April, I had a discussion with some of my fellow graduate students in the geology department at the University at Buffalo, the State …
August 5, 2013
Hidden graves give up their secrets to geologists
As of April 2013, more than 61,000 people were registered as missing in Colombia, many of whom are feared to be victims of the country’s …
August 4, 2013
Down to Earth With: Neil Armstrong: First astrogeologist on the moon
One year ago this month, Neil Armstrong died in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the age of 82. Armstrong will be forever remembered for that historic first …
August 2, 2013
Hurricane hunters fly toward improved storm forecasts
Hurricanes are one of the few natural disasters that strike with some advance notice. Forecasts can be made hours or even days ahead of landfall, …
July 19, 2013
Getting there and getting around in Cuba
Because of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, U.S. citizens must go through a travel agency licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department that provides …
July 19, 2013
Travels in Geology: Journeying through Cuba's geology and culture
It’s not every day that you get the chance to go to Cuba, so when I found out that the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) was offering an …
July 19, 2013
Location, Location, Location
Although field camps based east of the Mississippi River do exist, and a handful of American schools run camps abroad in places like Ireland, …
July 19, 2013
Home sweet home for field campers
With a few exceptions — including available meal choices and entertainment options for when students have limited free time — accommodations at …
July 19, 2013
Mapping field camp's past and present: Exploring a mainstay of geoscience education
Every spring, troops of geoscience students set out to observe firsthand the minerals, rocks, folds, faults, unconformities, ore bodies and other …
July 16, 2013
Bare Earth Elements: The field camp experience in photos
For the August issue of EARTH, I wrote about some of the ways in which geology's longstanding rite of passage — field camp — has changed over the …