The American Clean Energy Resources Trust (ACERT) is promoting the "multiple benefits of clean, affordable nuclear energy and the consequent need for continued domestic uranium exploration, mining and processing." [right, unnamed reclaimed uranium mine site from the ACERT site]The [...]
The AZ Dept. of Water Resources new Water Development Commission is intended to address the state's "abandonment of rural Arizona, when it comes to unmet water demand" says Verde Independent writer Steve Ayers in a story published today.Steve writes that the newly formed commission [...]
The Gulf Coast restoration efforts should focus on restoring processes rather than some arbitrary point in a dynamic and constantly changing ecosystem.During dinner last night at the Arizona Geological Society meeting, USGS Director Marcia McNutt prompted a short but insightful conversation with [...]
As my longtime readers know one of my favorite aspects of paleontological research is redocumenting historic localities. It is important to exactly relocate these sites in order to place them in our modern stratigraphic framework, thus the fossils collected from these sites add more data to our [...]
USGS Director Marcia McNutt gave her first public talk on the Deepwater Horizon - Gulf oil leak last night, and talked frankly about some some of the politics and controversial decisions. She may be the first senior official other than Adm. Thad Allen to speak publicly since the leak was [...]
Am Freitag, 16:35:46 UTC (Sonnabend 04:35:46 Ortszeit) gab es in Neuseeland South Island ein Erdbeben der Stärke 7.0 (USGS) bzw. 6.7 (GEOFON).Auf dem Video ist die auslösende Störung nach dem Erdbeben im Gelände gut zu erkennen.
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Here is a cool flyover of the Christchurch earthquake fault trace.From YouTube and with thanks to the Arizona Geology blog
NASA's Desert RATS teams are wrapping up the first week of their two week deployment in Arizona, testing a variety of planetary rovers and other units including a Habitat Development Unit that houses the geosciences laboratory. The group is posting daily photos on Flickr. [right, two rovers head [...]
A new article in the Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science by a team of Arizona geologists including AZGS's Brian Gootee, has documented the existence of an "older, higher terrace" that supports the idea that "the lower Salt River originated by lake overflow from an [...]
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum has a new exhibit on Speckled rattlesnakes. The exhibit will run through November. Speckled rattlesnakes most commonly inhabit dry, rocky, granite-filled canyons and their speckles resemble rock pattern and color, giving the snakes camouflage. Speckled [...]
Tucson’s “Desire Named Streetcar” is another boondoggle by the City administration. The City has been denied a $19 million grant from the Federal Transportation Administration to help build its modern streetcar, leaving the project $26 million short. According to a story in the [...]
Don Bills, with the USGS, summarized some of the results in the study they released back in February on the northern Arizona uranium province.The study had been available online, but the hard copy has recently been printed and distributed. [right, breccia pipes, mines, and related features in [...]
Not enough Flagstaff homeowners were hurt by July and August floods to qualify for federal assistance from FEMA, according to a story in the Arizona [Flagstaff] Daily Sun. The threshold is said to be 100 residences or more and $6.6 million in damages.Coconino County and the State may yet be [...]
NASA’s Desert RATS, or Research and Technology Studies, kicked off their 13th field season in Arizona with a live web cast aimed at students today.NASA reports that the hardware being demonstrated includes: Space Exploration Vehicles – a pair of rovers that astronauts will live in for 7 days [...]
China: Three Gorges Dam's image showing some cracks - Source: latimes.com via ASCE SmartBrief After the serious flooding in China this summer, Chinese officials have downgraded the design flood that they expect the dam to be witheld. In 2003, officials boasted that the dam could [...]
The Arizona Dept. of Game and Fish recently released guidelines for solar and wind energy projects to "assist energy developers in identifying potential impacts to wildlife and wildlife habitats from their proposed project development and potential alternatives to avoid, minimize, and/or [...]
It’s a kind of magic.One shaft of lightThat shows the way.~ lyrics from Kind of Magic, a song written by Roger Taylor and performed by QueenGentle Warning: If you thought that the Magic Eye books of the mid-1990s were the work of the devil, you may have a problem with this [...]
As Pakistanis struggle to recover in the aftermath of the recent flooding there and as relief has come to many parts of Russia after a record breaking heatwave, it's interesting to take a look at the causes of both. Dr. Jeffrey Masters at Weather Underground has written an interesting blog post [...]
“Earthquakes have rocked the powerful San Andreas fault that splits California far more often than previously thought, according to UC Irvine and Arizona State University researchers who have charted temblors there stretching back 700 years.” – Quoted from the University of [...]
The Arizona Oil & Gas Conservation Commission has approved permits for 3 new wells from Ridgeway Arizona Oil Corp, to drill into the carbon dioxide - helium field they are developing near St. Johns, Arizona (permits 989, 990, 991).[right, St. Johns field summary, from parent company Enhanced [...]
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