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5 February 2009
It’s getting a little nippy out there
Having lived in the mid-Atlantic my entire life, I’m finding it a bit hard to get adjusted to how cold it can get around here sometimes. (If any of you live in Alaska or the Dakotas or Minnesota or other such places, you’re allowed to scoff, but I’m sure glad I’m not living where you are!) For example, here’s what I saw when I checked Weather.com this morning: Being a …
11 June 2008
And geology is…
(From http://xkcd.com/) …way over to the right somewhere. Possibly off the screen. Yeah, we use ALL that stuff.
23 May 2008
I wanna be a Science Scout!
I just found this website (part of the Science Creative Quarterly), and I had to get my own “flair”. (Never was in the Scouts, but I was always a little jealous of the cool badges.) Apparently some of the folks up at the University of British Columbia have a lot of time on their hands. Or maybe it’s just a Canadian thing. Look! They have one that was definitely designed …
21 March 2008
An appropriate situation for “ROTFL”
Okay, I don’t usually talk about the whole evolution/creationism thing, but this post on Pharyngula is just about the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. I had to share.
Jessica Ball is a volcanologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, researching volcanic hydrothermal systems and stability, and doing science communication for the California Volcano Observatory. She previously worked at the Geological Society of America's Washington DC Policy Office, learning about the intersection of Earth science and legislative affairs. Her Mendenhall postdoc and PhD focused on how water affects the stability of volcanoes, and involved both field investigations and numerical modeling applications. Her blogging covers a range of topics, from her experiences in academic geosciences to science outreach and communication to her field and lab work in volcanology.