https://www.earthmagazine.org/tags/blurbs/ Recent content in Blurbs on EARTH Magazine Hugo en-US American Geosciences Institute. All rights reserved. Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:12:51 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/world-war-g-zombies-energy-and-geosciences/ Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:12:51 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/world-war-g-zombies-energy-and-geosciences/ <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/world-war-g-zombies-energy-and-geosciences/Cantner_Zombie.jpg" alt="Kathleen Cantner, AGI" loading="eager" decoding="async"> <figcaption>Kathleen Cantner, AGI</figcaption> </figure> <p><em>Editor's Note: Traditionally, EARTH has published a &quot;highlights&quot; or &quot;year in review&quot; issue at the end of the year. This year, we decided to try a new approach: We asked our staff and some frequent contributors to write a short commentary on something that grabbed their attention in 2013. We gave everyone carte blanche. What follows is a collection of extremely varied, often very personal insights into how the planet impacted each individual. You can <a href="#Find%20web%20stories">find some online</a> this month, but for the full grouping, you'll have to <a href="http://www.earthmagazine.org/digital">buy the issue here</a> or <a href="https://www.agiweb.org/store/earth/subscribe-js.php">subscribe</a>.</em></p> https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/witnessing-geology-action-rockfall-garden-gods/ Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:09:45 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/witnessing-geology-action-rockfall-garden-gods/ <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/witnessing-geology-action-rockfall-garden-gods/Before.jpg" alt="A rock formation in the Garden of the Gods, N.M., before a rockfall. Mary Caperton Morton" loading="eager" decoding="async"> <figcaption>A rock formation in the Garden of the Gods, N.M., before a rockfall. Mary Caperton Morton</figcaption> </figure> <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/witnessing-geology-action-rockfall-garden-gods/After.jpg" alt="The rock formation in the Garden of the Gods, N.M., after the rockfall. A white scar on the fin marks the site of the erosion. Mary Caperton Morton" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> <figcaption>The rock formation in the Garden of the Gods, N.M., after the rockfall. A white scar on the fin marks the site of the erosion. Mary Caperton Morton</figcaption> </figure> <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/witnessing-geology-action-rockfall-garden-gods/Rockfall.jpg" alt="The rockfall left a smattering of bright white rock all over the ground. Mary Caperton Morton" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> <figcaption>The rockfall left a smattering of bright white rock all over the ground. Mary Caperton Morton</figcaption> </figure> <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/witnessing-geology-action-rockfall-garden-gods/MaryinNM.jpg" alt="Mary Caperton Morton" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> <figcaption>Mary Caperton Morton</figcaption> </figure> <p><em>Editor's Note: Traditionally, EARTH has published a &quot;highlights&quot; or &quot;year in review&quot; issue at the end of the year. This year, we decided to try a new approach: We asked our staff and some frequent contributors to write a short commentary on something that grabbed their attention in 2013. We gave everyone carte blanche. What follows is a collection of extremely varied, often very personal insights into how the planet impacted each individual. You can <a href="#Find%20web%20stories">find some online</a> this month, but for the full grouping, you'll have to <a href="http://www.earthmagazine.org/digital">buy the issue here</a> or <a href="https://www.agiweb.org/store/earth/subscribe-js.php">subscribe</a>.</em></p> https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/once-digger-always-digger-or-how-i-learned-stop-researching-and-love-deadlines/ Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:48:40 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/once-digger-always-digger-or-how-i-learned-stop-researching-and-love-deadlines/ <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/once-digger-always-digger-or-how-i-learned-stop-researching-and-love-deadlines/tim_oleson.jpg" alt="©Callan Bentley, 2013" loading="eager" decoding="async"> <figcaption>©Callan Bentley, 2013</figcaption> </figure> <p><em>Editor's Note: Traditionally, EARTH has published a &quot;highlights&quot; or &quot;year in review&quot; issue at the end of the year. This year, we decided to try a new approach: We asked our staff and some frequent contributors to write a short commentary on something that grabbed their attention in 2013. We gave everyone carte blanche. What follows is a collection of extremely varied, often very personal insights into how the planet impacted each individual. You can find some online this month, but for the full grouping, you'll have to <a href="http://www.earthmagazine.org/digital">buy the issue here</a> or <a href="https://www.agiweb.org/store/earth/subscribe-js.php">subscribe</a>.</em></p> https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/bailing-through-boulder-flood-one-neighborhoods-experience/ Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:31:47 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/bailing-through-boulder-flood-one-neighborhoods-experience/ <p>Despite everything I learned in my sedimentology-stratigraphy class about alluvial fan deposits, and the debris flows and floods that emplace them, I never once considered what those depositional events might sound like. Now I know.</p>