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IBM researchers have announced that they have a new technology that enables them to store one bit of magnetic information in just twelve atoms of material.
Tags: climate-change, current-events, earthquakes, energy, environment, geology-news, Geology.com, marcellus-shale, meteorites, michigan, news, north-carolina, shale, south-carolina, united-statesPhilcoxia minensis is a carnivorous plant found in Brazil that catches worms with sticky underground leaves.
Tags: archaeology, earthquakes, geology-news, Geology.com, massachusetts, meteorites, mexico, michigan, middle-east, news, south-carolina, texasMichigan Tech has a “Geology of Utah ’s National Parks” course that runs from June 14th to July 1, 2011. This course is for teachers and consists of fourteen days of field-based activities conducted in and around the national parks and monuments of eastern Utah–areas internationally recognized for their outstanding geology.
Tags: ads-by-google, california, climate-change, earthquakes, environment, geology, geophysics, hawaii, marcellus-shale, michigan, plate-tectonics, teaching science, utahSea Grant Alaska has a collection of teaching and learning resources that can be used to create multiple lessons about seamounts for middle school students. Activities include: learning how seamounts form, mapping seamounts and building a seamount model from a topographic map.
Tags: climate-change, energy, geophysics, Jobs, maps, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, michigan, middle-east, oceanography, south, united-states, virginia, waterThis video gives an excellent description of the “elastic rebound theory” and explains how it applies to earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault .
Tags: astronomy, california, climate-change, earthquakes, Geology.com, Jobs, massachusetts, mexico, michigan, natural hazards, oceanography, san andreas fault, satellite images, science“Astronomers have discovered that galaxies in the distant, early universe continuously ingested their star-making fuel over long periods of time. This goes against previous theories that the galaxies devoured their fuel in quick bursts after run-ins with other galaxies.” Quoted from the NASA press release.
Tags: ads-by-google, afghanistan, astronomy, california, earthquakes, galaxies, geophysics, Jobs, michigan, NASA, pennsylvania, space“They are sometimes seen as threatening funnel clouds descending from stormy skies. Others can be nearly invisible, like a ghostly spiral of wind skimming the sea surface. These eerie columns of rotating air are known as waterspouts — commonly defined as tornadoes over water .” Quoted from the NOAA video transcript.
Tags: ads-by-google, climate-change, earthquakes, environment, hawaii, Jobs, massachusetts, michigan, noaa, video, virginia, waterAccording to an article in the Gemological Institute of America Insider , about 80% of colored gemstones are produced by artisanal miners. Many of them work under difficult conditions and earn a subsistence living.
Tags: earthquakes, energy, environment, gemstones, geology, Geology.com, Jobs, mexico, michigan, satellite images, water“Now you can receive daily or hourly updates about water conditions in rivers and streams by subscribing to WaterAlert, a new service from the USGS based on an extensive, real-time water information network of over 9,500 sites where USGS collects real-time water information.
Tags: climate-change, Geology.com, ground-water, Jobs, marcellus-shale, mexico, michigan, plate-tectonics, united-states, waterThe Michigan Water Stewardship website has a large number of lesson plans, all related to water, for students in K-12 science classes. They also have a small collection of virtual models and educational games.
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