A science blog that brings you closer to the world of geology! Featuring the "A Day in the GeoLife" guest blog series from geoscientists around the world.
Burgess Shale. The name sounded familiar, as I read through the travel guides of Yoho National Park. I had been in Banff for a couple of days and wondered about traveling farther out that day – out of my comfort…
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Yesterday, I heard about another aquifer that can no longer be used as a drinking water supply. Years of radioactivity in the area has contaminated the aquifer, and now concentrations are way above safe drinking water standards. This is another…
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Near the northwestern end of Washington state, lies an enormous mountain range known as the Olympics and within it, the beautiful, snow-capped mountains of Hurricane Ridge. Part of Olympic National Park, you can experience these mountains by walking alongside them…
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Check out this new Mars Express video released by the European Space Agency (ESA)! It’s a video of the topography of Mars as the Mars Express orbiter travels over the land surface. The images are very sharp and you can…
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I didn’t think too much of the siren light, as I passed through the entrance gate my first day at a laser testing facility in central Florida. To me, this didn’t seem like anything more than the typical contamination assessment…
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Interested in how the springs are doing near the coast of southwest Florida? There’s now a “Springshed Dashboard” available on the Southwest Florida Water Management District website that provides a snapshot on the location, current condition and characteristics of the…
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Northwest Washington is probably the last place you’d expect rain forests! But they are there! Nestled between the Pacific Ocean, snow-capped mountains of Hurricane Ridge, and Mount Olympus, lies beautiful Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park, one of the…
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When normal people go on vacation, they love spending time on the beach, going shopping, resting by a clear, blue pool, getting a massage at a spa — you know, those wonderfully pampering trips. But, as any of my family…
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I was 33 when I went to geology field camp, prior to graduation with my Bachelor’s. Five of us were headed to the same destination from the University of South Florida that year, so it was nice to be amongst…
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The worst sinkhole I’ve ever seen developed at an 84-year-old man’s Brooksville, Florida home following tropical storm Debby last year. At first, the house and property became inundated with water, but then sinkholes began opening up in the front yard….
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My very first experience as an employed field geologist was in June 1998. I had graduated in August 1997 and wasn’t called by the engineering firm for eight months, so to say I was excited was a bit of an understatement….
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