@nasajpl did a thing today and it makes me happy
Seismologists from Cambridge University setting up seismometers during the Holuhraun Eruption in Iceland, 2014-2015, and using small earthquakes to track movement of molten rock underground.
Jimmy Kimmel’s show on Monday gave several minutes of time to a bunch of climate scientists. This includes a friend of mine swearing at you so I pretty much have to share it. Hi Aradha! (NSFW Language).
Some have noted this is more coverage than ABC has given to Climate Change in the news all year.
In 2015, a group of scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution were investigating a seamount off the coast of Panama when they found something spectacular. The water on one side of the seamount (an underwater mountain) is low in oxygen and in that area they discovered what you could literally describe as a sea of crabs. They captured video and it’s like the entire floor of the ocean moves.
They hypothesized that by surviving in the low oxygen environment, the crabs were better protected from predators.
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2016
Head over to our twitter feed - the scientist who runs this blog is currently at the 2016 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (presenting research about Mars on Wednesday). I’ll be live tweeting the conference, including stuff on what the experience of a scientific conference is like, and a lot of the science results.
A really awesome landscape few humans have seen. Drone-captured HD footage flying over Arctic Sea Ice, from a U.S. led science vessel last November. Note how many different textures and thicknesses of sea ice appear in these shots.
Great video of a geology expedition in the high Canadian Arctic. Just look at the glacier spreading out in the starting frame! People jumping with rock hammers, releasing balloons, and all sorts of other neat goodies.
Hitch a ride along with the group of geoscientists on one of the field trips around this week’s Geological Society of America conference - this trip to the Fall Line in Maryland/the Potomac River Falls.
The horses are carrying lake coring equipment to Green Lake in the Green Lake Basin. The core will be analyzed for paleoclimate within the Teton Range, hopefully to explain why the natives made a sudden migration to higher elevations.
Teton Mountains, Wyoming
Want to know why this can be a fun science? Horse caravans carrying equipment through national parks to drill in a lake to do chemical and isotopic measurements for anthropological research. That sounds like a fun project to me.