environment - Through the sandglass

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Another margarita!

You live and learn – well, at least I try. And often I don’t even have to try – something I didn’t know (a category that knows no limits) just ups and surprises...

August 1, 2011 4 min read

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August 2011

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

August 1, 2011 7 min read

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Martian floods of tears - are the TSIs ESRs? Or is it just the total drag?

It’s always sobering to realise that we have a more detailed view of the surface of Mars than we do of the floors of our own oceans. And, while the evidence for...

June 1, 2011 9 min read

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Nourish or retreat?

25 million people – one out of every eleven inhabitants of the United States - live within 50 miles of the 127 miles of the open ocean coast of New Jersey. Coas...

June 1, 2011 8 min read

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June 2011

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

June 1, 2011 9 min read

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Sand and ice in Queens

Late last year, I reported on the strange interactions of sand and ice on the shores of Lake Superior and 500-million-year-old beaches. Recently, I heard from m...

April 1, 2011 2 min read

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April 2011

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

April 1, 2011 8 min read

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March 2011

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

March 1, 2011 5 min read

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A sanctuary in the dunes

The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint’s domain: For with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle; Dry shood o’er sand...

February 1, 2011 6 min read

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It's a sandpile world

One of the – many – entertaining research themes for my book was the role that sand plays in the imagery of our imaginations. Large numbers, very small things,...

February 1, 2011 7 min read

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Sunday sand: a nuptial arena

This last summer, the wedding of the daughter of friends of ours took place on North Stradbroke Island, off Australia’s Queensland coast. A dazzling expanse of...

December 1, 2010 5 min read

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Earth Science Week and Earth Science Literacy

Earth Science Week and Earth Science Literacy It’s Earth Science Week again, stimulated and coordinated by the AGI: Since October 1998, the American Geological...

October 1, 2010 10 min read