East Coast people, first, let me be honest: yes, we’re all giggling about your 5.8 earthquake on this coast. And no, it isn’t fair, but you probably laugh at our occasional funnel clouds. Second, it’s still very important to go report what you observed if you felt the earthquake; use this USGS link: USGS: Did [...]
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Report your earthquakes!
Posted in current events, nature, science, tagged earthquakes, engineering, geology, science, tools on 23 August, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Great Expectations…
Posted in science, teaching, tagged engineering, excellence, mathematics, science, teaching on 26 January, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sigh. Although my students do the best they can with the background they have, I continue to be stunned at the low requirements of the American education system. A sizable portion of college and university classes here are basically remedial high school. I’m getting lots of people in their second or third year in a [...]
You said who???
Posted in current events, science, society, tagged engineering, events, media, science, society on 4 June, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I am so very mortified. I just received the e-mail invitation from the American Society of Civil Engineers for the ASCE’s 139th Annual Civil Engineering Conference. And who do they proudly boast is the guest speaker for the Closing General Session Breakfast? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Yes, it’s Mister Ben “Expelled” Stein himself. Mr. Ben “science [...]
Happy Earth Day
Posted in environment, nature, science, tagged ecology, events, habitat, landscape, media, photography, physics on 22 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We live on a beautiful, fragile yet amazingly resilient world, which we celebrate on April 22. It’s the third planet from our star, the sun, formed over four and half billion years ago from accreting stellar matter, along with the rest of our system. Life developed rapidly on the new planet, taking merely half a [...]
Animal or vegetable
Posted in environment, nature, science, tagged birds, database, fisheries, google earth, natural resources, plants, science, software, species, tools on 20 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a few sites I want to gush about, as educational resources, as entertainment, and as serious technical and scientific resources. Not only can they be used in the classroom, or browsed for the sheer enchantment of discovery, but they are pure gold for for professionals in the environmental fields as well. NatureServe Explorer [...]
Google Earth: Wilkins ice shelf collapse
Posted in current events, science, technology, tagged climate, environment, google earth, landscape, maps, media, science, software, tools on 17 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The various stages of collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctica has been in the news over the past couple of weeks. Now you can watch an animation of the process in Google Earth, as assembled by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). After downloading the file and opening it with [...]
She blinded me with science!
Posted in science, technology, tagged chemistry, science, tools on 16 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve already established that I’m a nerd, so don’t be too alarmed when I tell you that today’s topic is snazzy periodic tables. I have three favourite sites I want to share, plus as a bonus, a fantastic chemistry database. If you’re not excited by the concept, maybe your high school-age kids will be! You [...]
What are latitude and longitude?
Posted in science, technology, tagged information, maps, science, tools on 9 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Monday’s post I talked about the North Coast Geotourism form through which you can submit locations of interest; on Tuesday I mentioned that the only tricky part of the form was getting the latitude and longitude coordinates, and on Tuesday I explained how to do this online. If you want some background on what [...]
Finding map coordinates
Posted in environment, science, technology, tagged california, google earth, maps, software, tools on 7 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Monday I talked about the North Coast Geotourism project and how the public can submit sites. There is only one potentially slightly tricky question in the form for submitting sites: you need to provide the latitude and longitude of the site you’re submitting. Gulp! The what? How do I do that? Well, as a [...]
Ada Lovelace Day
Posted in current events, science, technology, tagged activism, ALD09, ALD09post, excellence, Personal, science, women on 24 March, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So here we are — today bloggers are celebrating the heritage of Ada Byron Lovelace and other “techie” women in science, technology, engineering, and medicine. I picked women I admire and whose excellence inspired me through the years. Marie Curie Maria Skłodowska Curie, the Polish-born physicist and chemist who pioneered research in radioactivity with her [...]
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