Friday Headlines, August 23, 2013
THE LATEST IN THE GEOSCIENCES
After a hiatus due to field work, I’m back to this fun weekly post.Continue reading “Friday Headlines: 8-23-13”
Category Archives: Science
Pumping Iron to Pump Pumps
It’s the time of year when I service the mass spectrometer. One of my many tasks is to change the oil in the rotary pump.
The End is Nigh
Well, the end of the summer, anyway. Or this fleeting phenomenon some call ‘summer vacation.’
Honestly, I’m not sure what people are talking about when they talk about vacations. Apparently, people get ‘time off’ to ‘relax.’
Have you heard of this?Continue reading “The End is Nigh”
Field Work Travelogue – Day nine
We packed up this morning and left the Hanna Basin. It’s always sad to leave. But I have plans for next summer already. Need to find an unsuspecting undergraduate who wants a senior research project…
Today we went on the Vernal for the second leg of our journey. We paused briefly at Flaming Gorge, where I’d never been before.
Tomorrow, it’s into the Uinta Basin. Wish us luck!
Field Work Travelogue – Day eight
Tomorrow, we leave the field. We’re hoping the weather won’t delay our departure.
It’s always a little sad to leave the field, but we were highly successful. Today, we got to go on a lovely geologic tour of the Hanna Formation. We geeked out a bit over an awesome angular unconformity, collected a bunch more mammal teeth from a favorite locality, and found this:
Yup, I think that’s a horsetail, or something similar. Paleocene in age. Pretty cool, eh?
Tomorrow’s a travel day, and then it’s into the Eocene for us!
Field Work Travelogue – Day two
Today I drove another 600 miles. It wasn’t my original plan, but I couldn’t seem to find a hotel when I was ready for one. Oh well. I guess that means tomorrow will be a short driving day (yay!).
I started the day just West of Chicago on I-80 and stopped in Grand Island Nebraska. It seems like the majority of the day was in Iowa, though I know I spent a fair part of my time in both Illinois and Nebraska.Continue reading “Field Work Travelogue – Day two”
Friday Headlines: 7-18-13
Friday Headlines, July 18, 2013
THE LATEST IN THE GEOSCIENCES
Today’s round-up:
Strong evidence that Tyrannosaurus rex was a hunter, not a scavenger
New species of ceratopsian dinosaur found in Utah (and some poetry)
Problems with the Forest Service’s proposed rules for paleontological specimensContinue reading “Friday Headlines: 7-18-13”
How Teeth Grow
I’m thinking a lot about tooth growth right now. It’s an important part of nearly every project I work on and is of great importance for projects I have interns working on at the moment.Continue reading “How Teeth Grow”
Analysis Paralysis
I was cleaning up my office at work this morning, in preparation for my coming field season. OK, I admit, I was procrastinating.
I came across this fortune:
Actually useful, for once. How many of us suffer from ‘analysis paralysis’? pic.twitter.com/fKTdvxEewL
— Penny Higgins (@paleololigo) July 17, 2013
Field work cometh
In one week I begin the long trek across the country, from my home in western New York State, to Laramie, WY (and then to Vernal, UT), for three weeks of field work.
It’s been two years since I’ve been to my old stomping grounds in Wyoming. I’ve never been to the field site in Utah. There will be a lot to see.Continue reading “Field work cometh”
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