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17 March 2010
A Selection of Good Science Online This Week
There are some fabulously well written blogs and excellent science sites online. I have never done a post of the best that I have come across before, until now! So below is a sampling of sound science writing that got my attention this week. I love astronomical time lapses and Amanda Bauer in the UK has a great one. Tavie Greiner and Rob Keown have a post on International Sidewalk …
15 March 2010
CSI South Pole
When our first attempt at landing in Antarctica was turned back by weather, I found myself with a real problem. I had neglected to use a boomerang bag. All of your luggage is packed onto a huge pallet in the C17. If you aren’t able to land, it stays there until you finally make it. Now, If I had put my shoes in a boomerang bag, I would have had …
7 March 2010
Ice Cube at The South Pole (in HD too!)
I promised in an earlier post that I would post some more video of my tour of Ice Cube the neutrino telescope being constructed at the South Pole. So here it is, thanks to my Mac and iMovie. Excuse my camera work. I may work in TV, but I’m a meteorologist not a photojournalist. Fortunately, I was given a very short course by professionals and a really great camera that was …
11 February 2010
The Strangest Telescope On Earth- Ice Cube
I had a tour last month of the world’s strangest telescope. Not many have seen it, much less taken the tour. Why? It’s at the South Pole. Only about 4,000 people have ever been to the South Pole. Most were there before construction began! It’s called ICE CUBE. A telescope in the shape of (and made of in reality too) a giant ice cube. I mean a big cube too. …
25 December 2009
Happy Christmas! Buy a Book!
Did you get a gift certificate for Christmas? Amazon, Barnes and Noble? Borders perhaps? Here are my suggestions for some of the best reads related to science, climate change and meteorology. I have written about these books in previous blogs, but this time you have money in your pocket! Let’s start with weather: Rough Guide to Weather by Robert Henson The AMS Weather Book by Jack Williams These two books …
16 December 2009
What would you ask a polar scientist?
Earth Gauge has a nice press release out today about my trip to Antarctica with Ann Posegate of the National Environmental Foundation (NEEF). We would love to hear what questions readers would like to ask the scientists working at the bottom of the world. You can email me at [email protected] Students of any age are especially encouraged to ask, and I will be taking an experiment on hydroponics with me …
6 November 2009
Tomorrow is Carl Sagan Day
Tomorrow marks the first annual Carl Sagan Day. It will be held at Broward College in the Miami area of Florida. It will be celebrated by people around the world however, by simply pausing to reflect on the life of a man who brought the wonders of Science to millions. Sagan worried a lot about scientific literacy. To have a functioning society, where the public makes thoughtful decisions on everything …
29 October 2009
His Star Picture is Better Than Your Star picture!
Axel Mellinger is a professor and physicist at Central Michigan University, but at night he is an amateur astronomer. He has compiled an incredible photo of our Milky Way Galaxy and the ENTIRE night sky using over 3000 high resolution photographs. The picture above is a VERY LOW resolution image of his big picture. The new image is the highest resolution It took him almost two years and travel from …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.