June 19, 2018
Energy Notes: August 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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June 19, 2018
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Stephen M. Jasinski, mineral commodity specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey, has compiled the following information on phosphate rock, the …
May 24, 2018
Travels in Geology: The Bay of Kotor: Europe's southernmost "Fjord"
With its stunning backdrop of steep, imposing cliffs that plummet to a narrow inlet of the sparkling Adriatic Sea, Montenegro’s Bay of Kotor is …
May 24, 2018
Getting There and Getting Around Croatia
Most visitors to the Bay of Kotor arrive via cruise ship or an all-day excursion from Dubrovnik, Croatia. These options usually leave only a few …
January 28, 2015
Energy Notes: August 2012-2013
U.S. Oil & Petroleum Imports (million of barrels per day) Oil and petroleum imports data are preliminary numbers taken from the American …
January 28, 2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Phosphate Rock
Stephen M. Jasinski, mineral commodity specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey, has compiled the following information on phosphate rock, the …
December 15, 2014
Down to Earth With: Past American Geosciences Institute Congressional Geoscience Fellows
The American Geosciences Institute’s (AGI) William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellowship provides an opportunity each year for a …
December 31, 2013
Bare Earth Elements: EARTH's Top 10 online stories of 2013 ... (Yes, it's a list)
I have been resisting the urge to pull together a “year-in-review” list, mostly because there are already so many out there. (What it is about …
December 17, 2013
Bare Earth Elements: AGU 2013 wrap-up
It’s back to the office this week for several EARTH staffers, including myself, who attended the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union …
December 12, 2013
Energy 360: Moving energy - No easy feat, but a vital conversation
Trucks, trains, planes and boats move food, clothing, cars, wood, steel, medical products, smartphones, bicycles, organic milk, free-range …
December 11, 2013
Comet ISON still intrigues and inspires, even after its demise
“Comet ISON is dead, but its memory will live on." That eulogy for the much-discussed “comet of the century" was delivered today by Karl Battams …
December 11, 2013
Juno salutes its home planet and heads to Jupiter
Thanks to orbital mechanics, a spacecraft heading to Jupiter must go most of the way there, then loop around the sun, zoom back close to Earth, …
December 10, 2013
Hazards abroad: Sent home
On May 19, 2012, seismologist Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado at Boulder landed at the airport in Delhi, India, on his way to Bhutan. …
December 10, 2013
Be prepared: Navigating the risks of hazards research
Just over a year ago, in a cavernous room of the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, Calif., hundreds of geophysicists, seismologists, …
December 9, 2013
Curiosity finds an ancient habitable environment in Mars' Gale Crater
San Francisco - Yellowknife Bay is named for Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories, but is nowhere near that subarctic city. …
December 9, 2013
In or Out? Has Voyager left the solar system?
San Francisco - There is a possibility that Voyager, the U.S. spacecraft launched in 1977, which is thought to have left the heliosphere and …
December 6, 2013
Gifts: Holiday gift guide
Finding gifts for that special scientist can be challenging: They are often more excited by ideas and specimens than material possessions, or …
November 20, 2013
Geologic Column: Beer's secret ingredient: geology
Geologists have a long history with beer. Earlier this year, I decided to raise my own beer appreciation to the next level and take a class on …
November 20, 2013
Giant quake sloshed fjords half a world away
On the morning of March 11, 2011, Leif Hus and his wife Gry Melas Hus were having breakfast in their kitchen overlooking Sognefjord in Leikanger, …
November 20, 2013
Old photos help scientists relocate 1906 San Francisco quake rupture point
Portola Valley, just south of San Francisco, is famous for its progressive approach to geology. The town was the subject of the first geologic …
November 20, 2013
World War G: Zombies, energy and the geosciences
Editor's Note: Traditionally, EARTH has published a "highlights" or "year in review" issue at the end of the year. This year, we decided to try a …
November 20, 2013
Witnessing geology in action: A rockfall in the garden of the gods
Editor's Note: Traditionally, EARTH has published a "highlights" or "year in review" issue at the end of the year. This year, we decided to try a …
November 18, 2013
Science denialism: The problem that just won't go away
Editor's Note: Traditionally, EARTH has published a "highlights" or "year in review" issue at the end of the year. This year, we decided to try a …
November 18, 2013
A public service announcement: Improve geologic literacy starting on the home front
Earlier this fall, I took a paddleboarding tour along the Willamette River to Willamette Falls near Oregon City, Ore., a Portland suburb famous …