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5 29 2007 0 comments labels marine science sf bay area monday may 28 2007 creation fantasy camp coverage over at pharyngula as most of you know by now a creationist museum is opening in kentucky and receiving a lot of fanfare mostly of the mocking and negative sort thankfully i briefly considered writing a post about it but then found pharyngula s incredible compilation of media and blogosphere reactions to the story the reaction from science minded bloggers is overwhelmingly negative correctly so toward the opening of such an amusement park but as pharyngula points out the media as their heads up their asses journalists you have a problem most of the articles written on this museum bend over backwards to treat questions like did man walk among dinosaurs as serious requiring some kind of measured response from multiple points of view and rarely even recognized the scientific position that the question should not only be answered with a strong negative but that it is absurd let me ask any reporters out there when you cover a story about a disaster say the destruction of a town by a tornado do you also feel obligated to get a few pithy quotes from a few people who want to argue that the disaster was a good thing or that the residents deserved it head on over to pharyngula for much much more posted by brianr at 5 28 2007 0 comments labels anti science sunday may 27 2007 sunday morning funnies expanding earth theory grab yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy some sunday morning funnies i can t decide if this is for real or a parody of someone trying to be serious or something else either way it is entertaining neal adams an american comic book artist has a website and various videos out there talking about the expanding earth theory that s right the spreading of the atlantic and eastern pacific indicate that the earth has to have grown in the last couple hundred million years what about subduction this is what neal says about subduction there is no subduction no plates subduct subduction is unscientific and unt rue the ramifications of which are world shaking and the earth grows you may have heard this before so i caution you this is not your father s earth expanding theory earth is growing not expanding and therein lies the past error who s answer lies in physics and not geology very compelling argument against subduction if you are in the mood for some fun reading check out neal s full treatise on why subduction is a stupid theory that was the scientific part but wait there s more here neal is getting a little nasty 40 years ago your discipline was in a position to lead all of science into a new age of discovery but you wimped out you basically had no balls you could have given a growing earth theory an open chance for a complete examination but you closed your doors worse you accepted subduction a theory that has not been seen or proved for all these 40 years as gospel out of fear why did you do it you were bullied into it but worse again you allowed yourselves to be bullied shame nothing nothing in the proofs of subduction is there that can t easily be explained by another concept within the plate tectonics you will be the laughed at generation of geologists who believed in the subduction theory just like those who believed the sun went around the earth or the earth was flat and you could fall off the edge you are the duped generation of geologists i never realized some people were so strongly anti subduction anyway now that subduction is neatly out of the way neal gets to his real message if plates don t subduct but they are created at spreading centers then the earth has to be growing check out neal s video here explaining the expanding earth theory it s several minutes long but well worth it i do like neal s illustrations and animations very well done perhaps his science page is simply a different outlet to produce his art i don t know if anyone out there knows the skinny on this guy drop a comment this was one of those things i found on the internet and now i need to get back to work posted by brianr at 5 27 2007 6 comments labels humor randomness video saturday may 26 2007 end of suburbia i recently watched the documentary end of suburbia and inspired by thermochronic s comments on gasoline prices i figured it was a good time to post my thoughts about the film this documentary is essentially about peak oil which is the notion that we are very close to producing half of the earth s oil reserves if we haven t already what this means is that once we hit that peak production will decline couple this decline in supply with an increase in demand over the next half century and we have a recipe for global disaster so say the most adamant peak oil theorists i m not going to spend time on this post discussing peak oil as such if you don t know much about peak oil it behooves you to learn a bit about it before watching end of suburbia there are differing viewpoints from petroleum geologists as well as economists regarding the validity of global oil production being described by a bell curve but let s save that for another time so for the rest of this post i m going to focus on the film this film discusses the theory evidence and implications of peak oil within the context of the american suburbs this is what i like about this film the information and commentary regarding this issue are woven into a narrative about the origin rise and predicted demise of the suburban landscape instead of a boring encyclopedic presentation of what peak oil is and what it means the creators of end of suburbia asks a key question is suburban living sustainable the subtitle of the film is oil depletion and the collapse of the american dream so you can probably guess what they think the prospects are the american suburbs evolved from the combination of post wwii prosperity and the rise of the affordable automobile that is everyone can have a car why because cars are relatively cheap that s part of it for sure but more important in this equation cheap and abundant fuel to run the cars they do a great job in the film of emphasizing the underlying issue of peak oil it s not about running out of oil in an absolute sense it s about running out of cheap oil it is an economic as well as geologic issue so fast forward from the prosperous and enthusiastically pro capitalism 1950s to the turn of the century we now have a situation where many people drive over 100 miles a day to commute from their unnecessarily large and poorly constructed home in the suburbs to their place of work and back the original suburbs of the 1950s 1960s feel like the inner city compared to these exurbs that are far out on the fringes of a metropolitan area the so called suburban sprawl these areas are designed around the automobile this is the only way to get around you know these places we all do that s where you can find target chili s best buy and all the other mega stores try being a pedestrian in this environment and you certainly risk your life so now as americans are feeling the effects of more expensive fuel it is getting more difficult to sustain this lifestyle the film does a great job of painting a rather bleek picture of the future of this kind of life like most documentaries end of suburbia includes a combination of narration that presents the information and interview clips with various people for additional information and commentary the last part of end of suburbia takes a turn from the thesis of a doomed civilization to more optimistic thoughts they discuss the ideas of people returning to urban settings sometimes referred to as new urbanism where most of what residents need for everyday life is within walking distance or at least a much shorter trip on public transportation or car the filmmakers also touch on the idea of buying locally grown and produced goods to cut down on the ridiculous distances the stuff we buy and consume is transported why do i need an apple from new zealand in california personally i loved this film i was raised in american suburbia and didn t think about what it actually was and how it was set up until recently that is what i knew for me these kinds of films or books essays websites etc are important for my own education and awareness call me a pessimist but i tend to think that it takes significant events to produce significant change will we need to experience a great depression ii to collectively change our ways i hope it doesn t come to that but i fear it will the best case scenario in my opinion would be continued high fuel prices to wake the public up to the realities of our energy situation i have set up my own lifestyle to anticipate the future higher gasoline prices i e buying a high mpg car having only one car for two of us taking the commuter train as much as possible living in a neighborhood where we can walk to the market taking the bus when we can etc check out the trailer to end of suburbia and then rent it posted by brianr at 5 26 2007 5 comments labels commentary opinion earth resources film oil friday may 25 2007 friday field foto 18 lousy outcrop unfortunately this has been my field site for the last several weeks depressing i m jealous of those who are out there looking at rocks in their natural habitat right now but we have a long weekend field trip coming up next week posted by brianr at 5 25 2007 2 comments labels friday field foto thursday may 24 2007 where on google earth 12 ron has owned this competition for the last several installments but he is supposed to away from a computer so you others out there may actually have time to search around for this one good luck posted by brianr at 5 24 2007 2 comments labels where on google earth spectacular photographs of klyuchevskoy volcano on kamchatka click on the image above to see a whole bunch of great photographs of the klyuchevskoy volcano on kamchatka which has been erupting for the last few weeks link via geology com posted by brianr at 5 24 2007 0 comments labels earth hazards geology wednesday may 23 2007 visualizing complex networks i came across this interesting website called visual complexity that has a collection of images from various projects that aim to map and produce visualizations of complex networks these include biological computer systems social networks the web itself and others the image below is a map of the blogosphere from here the value of these to me aren t so much in using them as a map as in to navigate the blogosphere with the above image but to appreciate the nature of networks posted by brianr at 5 23 2007 0 comments labels complexity data visualization photos images tuesday may 22 2007 debris flow video updated a few weeks ago i posted this video of a debris flow event caught on film in california at the time i did not know much about it thanks to a youtuber we can now see a much longer video and we know much more about the event thanks bapyou this version runs a little over 4 minutes and has a bunch of information up front about the the actual event posted by brianr at 5 22 2007 2 comments labels sedimentation video neptune sea laboratory neptune north east pacific time series undersea networked experiments which i posted about last month will be a state of the art observational system in the ocean and on the sea floor off the coast of oregon washington and british columbia it will deliver data real time and be interactive this is very exciting the earth s oceans are the last frontier on this planet regarding scientific exploration and observation we still have yet to actually document many of the processes that occur in the submarine realm the neptune website check it out it s pretty cool lists a few of these massive storms erupting submarine volcanoes giant earthquakes marine mammal feeding and hunting patterns phytoplankton blooms in the upper ocean releases of microbes that live in the rocks beneath the seafloor and thrive on a diet of volcanic gas and of course what everybody wants to see caught in the act turbidity currents oh wait i guess that s just me sediment transport is indeed one of their goals i will be very interested to see the data come in and published in the coming years posted by brianr at 5 22 2007 0 comments labels marine science sunday may 20 2007 avulsion dynamics and experimental sedimentation back in february during just science week i posted a bit about some of the work being done regarding experimental sedimentation see here i highlighted the work being done by sedimentologists and dynamicists at the university of minnesota s st anthony falls lab in particular the video below is from some of their work i encourage you to explore their data archive if you want to find more this video shows a time lapse of sedimentation occuring on an experimental delta this particular experiment nicely shows the dynamics of shifting pathways of sediment transport and or deposition erosion otherwise known as avulsion the deposit here would be more akin to a braided fan delta as it is not developing long lived channels with cohesive levees the annotation shows where and when avulsion and expansion of channelized flow occurs also keep your eye on where deposition is occuring this interplay of deposition and avulsion continues in a very dynamic and seemingly unpredictable fashion qualitatively this isn t really anything we haven t known for a long time the point with these experiments is that we can measure every last little detail these researchers are really just scratching the surface eventually they would like to try develop some fundamental quantitative relationships that might lead to predictive guidelines but it will take many years of experimentation to amass the data needed to converge on these relationships the photo below is shown on safl s web page currently it shows that they are now experimenting with systems that do produce cohesive levees which is a key ingredient for understanding the dynamics of most river deltas posted by brianr at 5 20 2007 0 comments labels complexity sedimentation video friday may 18 2007 friday field foto 17 clast imbrication today s field photograph comes from the valley of fire region in nevada a few years ago we organized a student led field trip to this area to check out some of the fantastic geology on display this particular photo shows nice clast imbrication in a cretaceous alluvial fan sequence note the three clasts just below the pencil stacked on each other showing the paleocurrent direction to the right if you go hike around on a modern alluvial fan or stream with cobbles in it you will likely find small piles of imbricated clasts just like this posted by brianr at 5 18 2007 0 comments labels friday field foto sedimentary structures sedimentation 1980 mount st helens eruption anniversary today marks the 27th anniversary of the famous mount st helens eruption at 8 32 am on may 18th 1980 the volcano erupted as half the mountain slid off the side this 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