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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
June 2003 |
Geomedia Ten years of mapping Utah... |
Geotimes
September 2004 |
Geomedia Earthquakes, Climate Change and Reel Disasters... Geotimes on the Set... Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country... Mapping Mining Impacts in Missouri... |
Geotimes
December 2004 |
Quakes, Shakes and Fakes New Maps from the U.S. Geological Survey MF-2327-D. NEVADA. Geologic insights and suggestions on mineral potential... MF-2413. ALASKA. Geologic and fossil locality maps ... I-2655. UTAH and ARIZONA. Geologic map of the Kanab 30' X 60' quadrangle, Utah and Arizona... etc. |
Geotimes
December 2003 |
Geomedia On the Shelf for the Holidays... Books for the western traveler... |
Geotimes
October 2004
Ron Kind |
Geologic Mapping for the Future Recognizing the diverse roles mapping plays in society, Congress recently voted to reauthorize the National Geologic Mapping Act. |
Geotimes
September 2003 |
Geomedia Book Review: The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science... Maps: Lewis and Clark, USGS maps... DVD: Glacier DVD accolade |
Geotimes
April 2003
Gary E. Christenson |
Life Along the Fault: Reducing Risk in Utah Large earthquakes do not occur often enough in Utah to "remind" people that they are living and building in earthquake country. This scenario presents a unique challenge for the state geological survey. |
Geotimes
March 2003 |
Geomedia Relatively few people know that groundwater pumping affects streams, lakes, wetlands and springs. Robert Glennon's book, Water Follies, sets to turn this situation around... Magnetic anomaly map of North America by the North American Magnetic Anomaly Group |
Geotimes
July 2004 |
Digital Geologic Map of Virginia The Geologic Map of Virginia (1:500,000 scale) and its expanded explanation is now available in digital format from the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Mineral Resources. |
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. |
Geotimes
March 2004
E-an Zen |
The Marriage of Geology and Philosophy This slim volume deals with the public role of earth science in contemporary society. What it has to say should concern not only public-minded earth scientists and those engaged in policy-making, but those who care about the relations between science and the humanities |
Geotimes
April 2005
Megan Sever |
Dream Homes Slip Away The nature of the hillside -- an unstable ancient landslide deposit deep beneath layers of recent fill material -- and the civil engineering of the home sites in Anaheim, California are sparking debate over why these structures cracked and were demolished. |
Geotimes
January 2005 |
Geomedia Forensic Geology on the Small Screen... "Evidence From the Earth," by Raymond C. Murray... "Earth Colors," by Sarah Andrews... South Dakota Mapping... |
Geotimes
May 2004 |
Geomedia Chasing Lava: A Geologist’s Adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory... Frozen Wonders... Maps: Digital Mapping for Washington State... |
Geotimes
September 2003
Jan Childress |
Jim Davis: Lessons from Josiah Whitney Jim Davis stepped down this summer from his position as California's state geologist. Davis describes with relish the experiences of California's first state geologist, Josiah Whitney. |
Geotimes
June 2005 |
Geomedia Selling Extreme Life on the Extreme Screen... Books: Earth: An Intimate History... On the Shelf: Climate Change Picks from Kim Stanley Robinson... Maps: New View of North America... etc. |
Geotimes
August 2004 |
Geomedia Geologic Wonders... Book Reviews: Geology and Health: Closing the Gap... Desert Heat -- Volcanic Fire... The Winelands of Britain: Past, Present, and Prospective... Terroir: The Role of Geology, Climate, and Culture in the Making of French Wines... etc. |
D-Lib
June 2001 |
Tapestry of Time and Terrain Through computer processing and enhancement, a production team from USGS has brought together into digital tapestry existing images of the nation's lower 48 states... |
Geotimes
November 2004 |
Book Reviews "The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World" by Paul Roberts... "The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself, and Profit, from the Coming Energy Crisis" by Stephen Leeb and Donna Leeb... Digital Mapping in Kentucky... etc. |
High on Adventure
August 2008
Vicki Andersen |
John Day Fossil Beds Situated within the deeply eroded layers of volcanic ash, the John Day Formation is a well-preserved history of the flora and fauna that flourished during 40 million years of the Cenozoic Era. |
Geotimes
October 2003 |
Geomedia Book Review: Krakatoa... DVD: Revisiting The Core... Maps: Annotated list of references for geologic mapping in Iraq... etc. |
Searcher
June 2002
Irene E. McDermott |
Where was I? Maps on the Web There is a tremendous amount of spatial data on the World Wide Web: multitudes of maps; armfuls of atlases; cartloads of cartography. Enough to keep a map nerd like myself clicking and dreaming for years. Maps on the Web are designed for many uses, and many of them are free... |
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
June 2003
Chan et al. |
Geology for the Record Deltas, sandbars, shoreline deposits, and other geological relics contain valuable information about Utah's changing climate over the past thousands of years. But that information could be lost to urban growth and the need for resources unless people understand their geologic value. |
PC World
August 20, 2007
Steve Bass |
The Web's Best Mapping Sites At the top map services, driving directions are just the beginning. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Michael C. Wilson |
Geomedia Movies: I.D. screen times at the Smithsonian... Books: Dancing with giants: A review of the Last Giant of Beringia... Maps: Mapping a transportation hub in Alabama... etc. |
Geotimes
June 2004 |
Geomedia Book Review: The Long Summer... Museum Review: New Science Museum in the Nation's Capital... New Maps From the U.S. Geological Survey... |
Geotimes
May 2006 |
Geomedia Maps: Mapping the Seafloor for Everyone... Books: Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial... Charles Darwin, Geologist... etc. |
Geotimes
October 2003
Lisa Rossbacher |
Searching for The Map One geologist's quest to see "The Map that Changed the World," William Smith's original 1815 geologic map of Britain, which radically changed the way people understood Earth's subsurface and made Smith the "father of modern geology." |
Geotimes
March 2007
Margaret Putney |
OneGeology: A Site for All In partnership with the United Nations' International Year of Planet Earth, geologists around the world are coming together to form a world geological map, accessible to all on the Internet. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Megan Sever |
The Quest for Better Wine Using Geophysics Wine's Deeper History Winemakers and scientists alike have known that what makes good wine is a confluence of factors, including topography, climate and soils, known as "terroir." But the character of a wine has a much deeper history than that: a geologic history. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Alan Cutler |
Time Out of Mind The author's biography of 17th-century geologist Nicolaus Steno makes it clear that the age of Earth is not a cold, technical fact, but an idea woven through science and through modern culture -- and idea that people will always struggle to accept. |
Searcher
April 2002
Marylaine Block |
Mapping the Information Landscape Why is it worth identifying our mental maps and thinking about them? To remind ourselves when we get bogged down in a question, that we can reorient ourselves to a different map and a different strategy for finding answers... |
Geotimes
April 2003
Lisa M. Pinsker |
Mapping secure boundaries for data In deciding what geospatial information could pose harm to the country if made public, government agencies must think like terrorists. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Joel Bruckenstein |
Mind Mapping The concept of mind mapping is a technique that seems particularly well suited to the financial advisory practice. Read on for more information. |
Information Today
September 16, 2010 |
Elsevier Launches Geofacets Search and Discovery Tool for Geoscientists Geofacets is designed to help geoscientists in the oil and gas industry spend less time searching and formatting content and more time on analysis and interpretation to identify and characterize potential sources of hydrocarbon resources. |
Fast Company
June 2006
Lucas Conley |
Map Quest Location, location, location: The Web cognoscenti are mashing up data with maps to create a new way to communicate. |
CIO
May 11, 2009
Kristin Burnham |
Mind Maps Fuel Productivity Mind mapping should top your list of personal productivity tools. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Julie Brigham-Grette |
One If by Land, Two If by Sea A review of Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory -- How New Science is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners by Tom Koppel |
Geotimes
January 2007
Megan Sever |
Even Closer to Finding Ithaca Researchers are several steps closer to finding Homer's Ithaca, thanks to new results released today from geologic tests that support the hypothesis that the ancient kingdom of Ithaca may in fact be on western Kefalonia. |
PC Magazine
February 15, 2006
Davis D. Janowski |
Mapping Goes Local New local search services combine the search functionality of yellow-page sites, the cartographic abilities of the best mapping services, and a healthy dose of business and restaurant reviews provided by the locals themselves. |
InternetNews
June 30, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Meets Maps, APIs Google will publish the XML schema it uses to describe locations and Yahoo will publish its own Maps API, built on the open standard for Geo RSS. |
Geotimes
May 2005 |
Geomedia Q&A: Author Frank Parchman talks about his recent book Echoes of Fury... Books: Riding the Great Lakes: A review of The Living Great Lakes... DVDs: Libby, Montana in review... etc. |
