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Jessica Ball wrote a new blog post: Sidetracked: Cave of the Winds, Los Alamos 3 days, 3 hours ago · View
Well, I had planned to work on my Bancroft posts this week, but in all the packing hoopla I realized that I left my field notes in Buffalo, which doesn’t help me much while I’m here in Los Alamos. So you’re just going to have to settle for some photos from the hike I took yesterday [...] -
Jessica Ball commented on the blog post Bancroft (a preview) 1 week, 4 days ago · View
It’s called the “Hand of God” – I actually borrowed it from the prof. I think I need one of my own, though!
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Jessica Ball wrote a new blog post: Bancroft (a preview) 1 week, 5 days ago · View
I was hoping to publish a really great set of posts on my recent trip to Bancroft, Ontario (metamorphic petrology galore), but the blogs have been having a few issues with image uploading. So until I can both upload the photos I want and have the time to comment on them properly, this will just be [...] -
Jessica Ball commented on the blog post Hot s(tuff) 3 weeks ago · View
Hmm…important point. I suppose I’ll just have to make sure it’s a well-ventilated cave!
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Jessica Ball commented on the blog post Hot s(tuff) 3 weeks ago · View
It couldn’t be any worse than the apartment I stayed in last summer – no fans or AC, just a window, plus 90-degree heat and smoke. Apparently people building in Los Alamos in the 50s didn’t understand the ventilation concept either…
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Jessica Ball wrote a new blog post: Hot s(tuff) 3 weeks ago · View
As many of you may have read last summer, I had a few issues with natural hazards unrelated to volcanology. Namely, this: Because of the awful drought conditions in the western US at the moment, my upcoming trip to New Mexico in May isn’t looking much better in terms of my chances of avoiding close encounters [...] -
Jessica Ball commented on the blog post Mineralogy Etymology 3 weeks, 6 days ago · View
Yes! Perfect.
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Jessica Ball wrote a new blog post: Mineralogy Etymology 4 weeks ago · View
It seems like everyone enjoyed the post on the etymology of volcanology vocab, and I did mention something about mineralogy, so…here it is! I’ve mostly pulled up minerals that I deal with in volcanology. (This is just a quick collection – hopefully I’ll get around to posting more once I’m done with my latest round of [...] -
Jessica Ball commented on the blog post Geology and rock climbing 1 month ago · View
I would say it depends heavily on both the rock type and the state of that particular rock unit. If you were in a desert area with a lot of granite or sandstone, for instance, the percentage would probably be a lot higher than someplace with a lot of crumbly limestone. It also depends on [...]
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Jessica Ball commented on the blog post Volcanology Etymology 1 month ago · View
The first reference that OED gives is from M. J. Durocher’s 1857 Essay on Comparative Petrology , where he says:
In the mineral kingdom Silicon performs a part analagous to that of carbon in the organic kingdom; and in its behaviour, as a polybasic acid, silica unites with the oxides in various proportions, and thus gives rise to [...]
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Jessica Ball wrote a new blog post: Volcanology Etymology 1 month ago · View
In my liberal-arts-undergraduate life, I ended up taking a few linguistics classes to fulfill the requirements for my anthropology minor. I actually had a lot of fun, especially when we started talking about the etymology of words in modern English (otherwise known as, ‘stolen from everyone else’). Working out the component parts of a word is [...] -
Jessica Ball wrote a new blog post: Talking with undergrads about ‘nontraditional’ careers in the geosciences 1 month, 1 week ago · View
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Jessica Ball wrote a new blog post: If you were to wander into my office this afternoon… 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
…this is the scene you’d see playing out. Me: Okay, I need to change this bit of code to get the program to do this, so let’s make one edit here and… Fancy Numerical Model: (CRASH) Me: Oops, if I change that I have to adjust this other input file. So let’s make that change and… FNM: (CRASH) Me: Okay, I’ve [...] - Load More
