In April 2009 a devastating earthquake hit the town l’Aquila in Italy. Destroyed buildings leave 308 persons dead and over 22 thousand have to flee to government funded shelters. This as it is, is a tragedy on many levels, but this week the aftermath pushes l’Aquila back into the media and leaves the world wondering […]
Category Archives: Earth Science
The three virtues
Don’t forget the three virtues of a Geophysicist, namely: True Love, True Friendship, True Amplitudes. ~ M. Tygel This happens to be my favorite quote about geophysics. A fellow writer asked me, what this quote was all about. So I began to elaborate on this. The part about “True Love” appears to be the easiest […]
Did you see it?
Did you see it? We do a big deal in presenting the most stunning and interesting places around the world and explain the science behind it. We always try to go that little extra and get the story complete. In the beginning, of this year’s summer, the U.S. Geological Survey called for you to complete […]
Gotland and van Gogh [Landsat Week]
Today we have reached the final picture of Landsat week. I am starting to ask myself if someone at NASA is trying to follow in van Gogh’s footsteps. We have featured a video on ocean currents visualized in a van Gogh’esque fashion. This picture seems very much like the masterpiece ?The Starry Night?. This picture […]
Fractal Art at the Yukon River Delta [Landsat Week]
Today's Landsat week post brings to you: art! I really don't know how to better describe this wonderful picture. But I will do my very best to try. While on first sight this could be many things, even biologically grown structures, this shows a river delta. To be exact it's the Yukon River Delta in […]
Erg Iguidi [Landsat Week]
Today’s Landsat post leads us to Algeria. The yellow streaks crossing this picture show us Erg Iguidi. This erg is part of the Sahara. If you direct your view on the fascinating background, you can distinguish between black sandstone in the middle and sand plains as seen on the lower left. Take a really close […]
Lake Eyre [Landsat Week]
Landsat Week! First of all, I have to admit that this picture kind of creeps me out. It just looks like a huge deranged face. It shows lake Eyre in northern South Australia. Although it is a lake, in its usual state Lake Eyre is a huge salt crust covering most of the lakes bed […]
Greener cities = Greener cities!
Polution in the city still is hazardous. Especially nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and microscopic particulate matter (PM) exceed those levels and can be a threat to human health. We already do quite a big deal to decrease polution from traffic. Special filters can get most of the microscopic dust out of the exhaust. But a lot […]
Jurassic Pork
For most of us this might be more on the humorous side of science. But actually studying the mating habits of dinosaurs might lead paleontologists on some important clues of how dinosaurs evolved. Dr. Halstead, known for his candid talk about Dino sex, said the following to “Omni”: “All dinosaurs used the same basic position […]
Start to the Earth Scientist’s Periodic Table of Elements and its Ions
Probably you’ve seen the Periodic Table of Heavy Metal over at IFLS. http://on.fb.me/M8CJrh Although I’m quite a metal enthusiast, I have to say this doesn’t quite match the most awesome periodic table I’ve seen. It’s the Earth Scientist’s Periodic Table of Elements and Their Ions. There is a popup-version of it with a lot of […]
