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vranespic.jpg Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)

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Earth Science (general):

at AGU this week

I've been meaning to pull together a geobloggers confab at AGU this year but didn't get it done, so we'll have to wait until next year. In the meantime, I'm at the AGU Fall Meeting all week and am giving...

another geophys blog for your reading pleasure

Just stumbled upon Louise Kellogg's blog. Louise (webpage) is the Chair of the Geology Dept. at UC Davis and was one of my undergraduate advisors. Her flavor of geophysics is the deep-earth/mantle convection stuff and she writes papers with titles...

all the others: recent AGU abstracts on water resources and other issues

See here for yesterday's hurricane rundown and here for yesterday's climate rundown; see here for all the previous briefings. Integrating stakeholder values with multiple attributes to quantify watershed performance by Shriver and Randhir of UMASS-Amherst. There's a lot going on...

June/July earth sciences journal article round-up

Finally got my unread inbox down to zero and doing so meant paging through mountains of AGU and Springer email alerts. Here are the eight papers that caught my eye:...

Where is NASA getting the money for space exploration?

I can do without the conspiracy theorizing, thanks. No, what's really interesting (and insidious) about this story is something Revkin may not have had space for: NASA is certainly moving away from Earth observation (EO), but that slack isn't being transferred over to other agencies.

AGU (geophys/earth science) journal roundup: late June

If you're a geo-nerd you might be interested in.... Koppes and Hallet, Erosion rates during rapid deglaciation in Icy Bay, Alaska, J. Geophysical Research. Proof that former Congressional Science Fellows can go back after their year on the Hill and still be productive scientists....

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