Earth News…and other useful or interesting stuff hot off the presses

updated August 16, 2010


Earth News hot links contents

Casacadia_geonews

Weblinks

Science_news

Natural_hazards

Volcano_News

Miscellaneous_Volcano_sources

Off_the_wire

Other_stuff (new on the web)


Cascadia_geonews

USGS Preliminary Atlas of shallow, active, tectonic deformation in the Puget Lowland, Washington  released August, 2010

Slow seismic slip event of August 2010


 

 

Weblinks

Google

American Geological Institute AGI  publishes  Earth Magazine which supercedes Geotimes (searchable archives)

The Geology Blog

Tuff Cookie's geoblog

Northwest Geology field trips blog

Sliding Thought Blog-- Washington's landslide blog

Dave's Landslide Blog

The Center for Land Use Interpretation 

Encyclopedia of Earth –2008 winner of the Best Website Award from the Geoscience Information Society

Washington State geology field trips

Washiington DNR State Geologic maps—One-stop link 

Keenan Lee's geology page

Missoula Floods paper by Keenan Lee

Floods and flow resources--teaching Mars geology on Earth


Science_news

Possible impact crater found in the Congo

AP story about the hacked emails from climate scientiests      Dec. 12, 2009 (This is a long article)

A Warming Arctic: Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster than Ever - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International  Nov. 13, 2009

soot as a climate forcing factor (abstract)

 


Natural_hazards —living on the edge

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chilemoves.htm

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chilequakemap.htm

Shake, Rattle, Seattle       Peter Yanev in 3/28/2010 NY Times about how “new” buildings handled the Mg. 8.8 quake in Chile

NYTimes article of 01/26/2010 on seismology & paleoseismology of Hispaniola area, where the Haiti quake struck 1/12/2010

Yahoo news on the deadly New Years 2010 landslides in Angra dos Reis Brazil

On the deadly New Years 2010 landslides in Brazill--the Latin Americanist

Heavy rain triggers landslides, flash floods, killing 48 in Tamil Nadu India

Sept. 2009: Deadly tsunami triggered by strong (8.3 magn) quake in American Samoa, the South Pacific

May 2009 deadly landslide in the Phillipines in Pantukan in the province of Compostela Valley


Volcano_News

Aerial view (no sound) of jokuhlhaup (debris flow/flood) from Eyjafjallajökull glacier in Iceland

Mount St. Helens dome growth time-lapse on Vimeo

Volcano Picture of the Day   

The Daily News Online > Editorial > National Park designation would be best for Mount St. Helens  Nov. 10th, 2009

Chaiten, an active caldera in southern Chile

ONEMI

http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/chaiten-increased-activity-reported-chilean-government-orders-total-evacuation/  recent reports from the Volcano Blog

OVDAS--the Southern Andes Volcano Observatory, Chile

a study Holocene tephras of Chilean volcanoes

Chaiten Volcano -- SI Global Volc. Network

 

 


Miscellaneous_volcano_sources

World Organization of Volcano Observatories

Volcano Blog

 

 


Off_the_wire

How green is your pet (from New Scientist Oct. 23, 2009

World's Most Amazing Views   from Yahoo News

Ancient rock art near China Lake CA

 

 


Other_stuff    (mostly useful)

http://www.newscientist.com/

Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet: News in Science, Health, Weather, Environment and Nature

10 phrases to deep-six your resume

Resources for Earth Science and Geography

Digital Library for Earth System Education

Pat's Earth Science links

Weather and climate videos for online viewing  American Meteorological Society

 


Earth Sciences at Centralia College

Earth Science pages maintained by Pat Pringle; please report bad links to ppringle ‘at’ centralia.edu