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Geotimes
August 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Muddling Science at Parks and Museums Exhibit disclaimers, along with other changes in parks and museums, could pose challenges to effectively communicating science to the public.   |
Geotimes
March 2004 |
Creationism in a national park Rangers in Grand Canyon National Park teach visitors that the Colorado River eroded the 2-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks to form the canyon roughly 6 million years ago. The park's Web site describes the Grand Canyo |
Job Journal
April 1, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Park Ranger Part cop, part naturalist, part tour guide, rangers do it all. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Lisa Rossbacher |
Big Lonesome Mountain What makes Gros Morne National Park so special is that its stories match the experience each visitor brings. The more geology you know, the more you will see and the richer the visit will be, but the geology meets all visitors at their own level. |
AskMen.com
Jasper Anson |
Top 10: National Parks With such a giant landscape to work with, the United States holds a multitude of national parks for local and international tourists to sample any time of the year. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Megan Sever |
Review of Creationist Book Shelved The Department of the Interior has yet to reach a decision on the sale in Grand Canyon National Park of a book that tells a biblical story of the creation of the Grand Canyon. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Geomedia Museums: Darwin's Life and Work on Exhibit... Books: Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery... Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle... |
Job Journal
June 8, 2008
Julia Hollister |
Outdoor Occupations Take an outside track for these cubicle-free careers in the great wide open. |
Geotimes
December 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Cave Discovery Dazzles National Park A new cave find could help scientists learn about the geologic history of the Sierra Nevada. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Peter A. Scholle |
Geologic Etiquette in a Mechanized Era Geologists should exercise more considerate choices regarding the rocks they destroy for science. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Joshua Tree National Park: A Geologic Oasis After a brown, dry winter, 2007 may not be the best year to spot wildflowers at Joshua Tree National Park. But don't let that stop you from making plans to head out to the park. The park's geology, while changing, is not quite as ephemeral or picky as those springtime flowers. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2007
Christina C. Schaller |
Let Academic Freedom Ring Unless we liberate science from political and religious forces, our students don't stand a chance in the global workforce. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Jon L. Rau |
Teaching Urban Geology From the Bottom Up Middle- and High School-level textbooks do not contain sufficient geological data to illustrate interesting problems and natural hazards that are related to local geological urban settings, thus forcing teachers to do their own research. |
Outside
May 2010 |
The Best State Parks Follow our guide to America's wild and relatively untrampled state parks, national lakeshores, and recreation areas. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Naomi Lubick |
National Parks in Crisis America's national parks are facing a financial crisis: The parks have a $600 million shortfall, on top of a maintenance backlog of $4.5 billion to $9.7 billion. In response, the National Park Service and Congress are devising new methods for fundraising, some of which are controversial. |
Fast Company
May 2012
Lindsey Kratochwill |
A South Korean Augmented-Reality Theme Park Puts Disneyland To Shame In the 1960s, Disneyland wowed visitors with audio-animatronics -- and American theme parks have seen few innovations since. That may change, if the Korean export Live Park successfully breaks in. |
Smithsonian
June 2005
Charles Petit |
Hazy Days in Our Parks The air in many national wilderness wonderlands is getting worse. As officials debate controversial new rules to curb pollution, scientists find the sources are surprisingly far-flung. |
Geotimes
April 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Ann Carpenter: Searching for Gold With domestic minerals becoming more attractive, Nevada's gold deposits have refueled geologic searches there, prompting the return of many mining and exploration geologists to their home turf -- including Carpenter, one of the leading women in a field generally dominated by men. |
Outside
January 2006
Kate Siber |
Grand Canyon Under Glass Arizona's Hualapai tribe is opening a glass-bottomed, horseshoe-shaped walkway that will jut 70 feet from the edge of the Grand Canyon's south rim, 4,000 feet above the canyon floor. |
Geotimes
May 2007 |
Geomedia Geo Families: How I Learned to Love the Rocks... TV: A twisted vision of geology: Saul of the Mole Men... |
Geotimes
November 2005
Megan Sever |
A Desert Oasis Now is the time to book a flight into Las Vegas, spend the night in a casino and scratch your gambling itch if you must, and then head out on a few day trips for some natural relief from all the glitz and glamour of the strip. |
Geotimes
March 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Julie Jackson: The quiet public geologist Last fall, the Geological Society of America awarded Julie Jackson their 2003 public service award for her work in communicating geoscience to the public. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Hatheway et al. |
Applied Geology in Service of the Public Welfare Engineering geologists play a crucial role in providing geological information to the public. |
Geotimes
November 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Seeing and Speaking in the Field Deaf students and their teachers traveled to the Utah desert to get their first taste of structural geology under the tutelage of Michele Cooke, a professor at the University of Massachusetts an Amherst. |
High on Adventure
February 2009
Vicki Andersen |
Snowmobiling West Yellowstone, Montana This snowmobile-friendly town accesses the nation's most extensive trail network. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Larry Funkhouser: The "Midwestern" Oil Explorer His career has followed the oil industry from postwar boom through later highs and lows. In April, he received his colleagues' highest recognition, the 2004 Sidney Powers Medal, at the meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in Dallas. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Broadening horizons for students Snee Hall is home to Cornell University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Since broadening its subject base in 2002, the department has greatly increased its number of majors. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
5 Investing Lessons Born of Defying Reason Five timeless investing lessons that come from doing something utterly crazy. |
Geotimes
April 2003
Randall Orndorff |
Mapping Colorado Currently, only 24 percent of Colorado's spectacular geology has been mapped at the fine scale of 1:24,000. At the same time, the state hosts many geologic hazards. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Geology Department to Close at SUNY-Albany Long on the brink of extinction, geology at the State University of New York at Albany has taken one step closer to the edge. |
Geotimes
November 2003
Naomi Lubick |
Ed Roy: Thinking and teaching in Texas Throughout his academic career as professor of geology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Edward C. Roy Jr. has championed geology for elementary and high school students, as well as for undergraduates. |
Geotimes
November 2006
Allyson K. Anderson |
A Winding Path to the Energy Hill While energy issues are the subject of continued debate on and off the Hill, they won't necessarily be addressed with legislation at the end of the 109th Congress. Instead, a recently proposed bipartisan bill is expected to hit the Senate floor when the Congress returns from recess. |
Geotimes
January 2005 |
Astronaut Geology Field Training The field trips in preparation for moon landings were designed as instruction about the specific landing site. We went to places that we thought would show geologic features and problems similar to those they would encounter on the moon, such as impact craters and volcanic areas. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Megan Sever |
Glacier: Crown of the Continent Established as a national park in 1910, Glacier National Park's geologic and ecologic significance is internationally recognized. |
Real Travel Adventures
May 2005
Neely & Neely |
Camping & RVing at Mt. Rainier National Park Whenever you go, you'll fall in love with this incredible place of wonder. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Larry Kennedy |
A Geological Path to City Hall A former geology student, John Hickenlooper is now a political legend, the little-known entrepreneur who climbed from single digits in the polls only six weeks before the May election to win it outright. |
Geotimes
October 2004 |
Pedaling D.C.'s monuments A bicycle tour of the Mall in Washington, D.C. highlights the geologic history of the region... Oct. 10 to Oct. 16 is Earth Science Week, organized by the American Geological Institute... |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Theme Parks Keep Rolling Cedar Fair sets the stage for a smoother ride in 2011. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Rossbacher & Rhodes |
Building Geology for the Future: Cui bono? Academic geology departments are under attack and have been for more than a decade. Now, Geology departments are facing increasing challenges to survive. |
