Friday, October 2, 2020

Have You Seen This Movie Before? The Disaster of 2020

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Scene 1: A monkey dies an ugly death in a rainforest... A woman swimming hears a crunching sound and disappears beneath the waves... A menac...
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Monday, September 21, 2020

The Equinox of the Fall

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I haven't been blogging much lately. It's probably not hard to guess why: I've been working harder than at any time aside from t...
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Sunday, August 30, 2020

A Life Full of Zeros: A Perspective on Human and Geologic Time

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Some perspective on time. It's one of the more difficult concepts to get across in a geology education simply because the numbers lie at...
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Friday, August 7, 2020

The Way it Was: Yosemite in the Times of a Pandemic

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Tunnel View, close to the spot where the valley was first "discovered" by European colonizers The pandemic rages on, and our lives...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

You CAN see it! Comet Neowise Now Visible After Sunset

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First, the disclaimer: The comet Neowise does NOT look like the glorious and incredibly beautiful pictures that have been posted on social...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Hopes for the Healing of a River: Northern River Otters on the Tuolumne

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I had the delightful privilege of watching a River Otter family hanging out along the Tuolumne River the other day. There were three of t...
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Monday, June 22, 2020

Last Light on the Longest Day: Green Flash on the Summer Solstice

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It isn't really a time for traveling, but a funeral had us traveling up the California Coast yesterday evening. We stopped at Clam Bea...