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July 21, 2020
Is this Florida’s most famous landslide?
New from The Geo Models blog: “I asked Google and was rewarded with a vintage paper called…wait for it…’A Florida Landslide.’ Written in 1948 by Richard Jordan of Florida State, the paper describes a surprisingly impressive landslide that occurred in Gadsden County, Florida…”
June 25, 2019
Cruise blog: More observing seafloor methane seeps at the edge of hydrate stability
Six new blog posts from the continuing Hunting Bubbles research cruise.
June 10, 2019
According to plan
After picking up the science team in Astoria, we headed back out to sea! This time we headed northward to the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Washington State. The aim of this leg is to try to locate and recover fragments of a meteor strike recorded off the coast.
June 9, 2019
Improving the odds
Overnight, the ‘star sieve’ returned several hundred grams of rocky material with characteristics similar to what we are looking for in meteorites – black-colored rocks with a smooth exterior surface. But when ALL of the samples from multiple sites look that way, you have either hit the jackpot or something else is going on.
June 6, 2019
Mucknificence
Seafloor mud is a mucknificent thing. The soft surface of well-sorted, very fine silt and mud provides a wonderful foundation for benthic organisms, but also allows all the larger, coarser, and heavier rocks – including the meteorites we seek – to bury themselves within.
May 23, 2019
Oceanography in real-time: Undergraduates learn what it takes to do science at sea
Mud wasn’t the only thing students got their hands on. The undergraduates helped to sample the water column and ocean life at two deep locations (3,000 m and 600 m water depth) off the Oregon continental shelf, in addition to conducting a hydrographic survey along the Newport Hydrographic Line, a series of sampling stations that have been active for nearly 60 years.
January 7, 2019
LiDAR-based hillshades show details of thin “slab-slides” in Appalachian Valley and Ridge
Hillshade imagery from a new LiDAR dataset provides an incredibly detailed look at landslides of unknown age within the Valley and Ridge province.
November 23, 2018
Covered in mud, but with a big grin
There are days you find yourself on a ship, at 2am, covered in mud. Those days you wonder, “How did I get here?” Then you realize what an amazing opportunity you have.
October 11, 2017
The Journey to the Heart of the Ocean
Mud, mud / Glorious mud. / Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
April 10, 2017
Turning Field Work into Field Play
Field work is basically made from these ingredients: stressful planning, packing hassles, long flights, inevitable food poisoning, sunburn, monotonous days, and lots and lots of fun!
