We will be packing the AZGS Phoenix office library and files starting Monday to move them into storage at the old mining and mineral museum near the Capitol.

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During the melting season I'm writing (bi-)weekly updates on the current situation with regards to Arctic sea ice (ASI). Because of issues with data based on the SSMIS sensor aboard DMSP satellites, I mainly focus on higher-resolution AMSR2 data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), as reported on the Arctic Data archive System website. I also look at other things like regional sea ice area, compactness, temperature and weather forecasts, anything of particular interest.

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This week we are in Slovenia collecting rocks for Nick's MSc thesis. It is so very different from Morocco, instead of Tagine, we have pasta and steak, instead of mint tea, beer and espresso, and instead of scorching heat, we have rain.... oh so much rain.

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Sol 1368-70, June 10, 2016, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: We received the engineering data that we needed to proceed with the final science activities at the Oudam drill site.  Today's plan is focused on analyzing the pre-sieve dump ......

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It's here. Enjoy!...

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I know what you're probably thinking. Yulsman totally manipulated this sunset image in Photoshop. But actually, this is the JPG file straight out of the camera (a SONY A7R with a Zeiss zoom lens attached). The camera's JPG processing algorithm proba...

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Sol 4400 (!), June 10, 2016. The rover is parked at a target named for George Drouillard, a civilian interpreter and scout on the Lewis & Clark expedition. At right is a composite of Microscopic Imager views of the target ... Continue reading â†'...

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The University of Oxford is looking for a PostDoc research assistant under the direction of Professor Richard Walker and Professor Philip England to work on active tectonics in China. The focus is on the Hexi corridor and the Qilian Shan of Gansu. Deadline for application is 15 July 2016.

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MAVEN‬ began its fifth "deep dip" campaign of the mission this week. Three maneuvers were successfully carried out to lower the periapsis (or lowest) altitude of the spacecraft by approximately 29 km, placing MAVEN into the targeted density cor...

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  The skin of the Earth is the color of tar, Ridged, freshly healed like the seams of a scar. Through salt-spattered sky, a gray-winged gull sails; Steam gently rises, the island exhales.   A power plant rests on porous basalt, In spaces beneath, a...

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Videos of two recent talks I've given, one intended for a general audience and one aimed at professionals....

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THEMIS Image of the Day, June 10, 2016. Today's VIS image shows a portion of Cerberus Fossae. The narrow linear features are graben, formed by a block of material moving downward along paired faults. More THEMIS Images of the Day ... Continue readi...

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If SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft becomes a standard catalog item that could ordered, the way a launch vehicle is, what might the impact be on planetary exploration?...

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Waterland Orkney c. Karen Picton

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Whether it be in media coverage or in statements by politicians, the connections between our warming planet and extreme weather events are too often ignored or downplayed (or sometimes overplayed). Those who want to learn more about the global climat...

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Whether it be in media coverage or in statements by politicians, the connections between our warming planet and extreme weather events are too often ignored or downplayed (or sometimes overplayed). Those who want to learn more about the global climat...

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It's been a bumper year for geobaking - our highest ever number of entries! Thank you and a huge round of applause to everyone who took part.

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Since our last post, our team has moved an hour south to the small village of Weyakwin, where the Philion fire burned last year. There is a lot of logging Weyakwin, and we are very interested in the interactions between fires and logging. We are comparing burned forests that grew back after people cut trees, to those that grew back after an earlier forest fire.

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Bedrock exposures on the floor of Uzboi Vallis. Beautiful Mars series....

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This is the latest in a series of dispatches from scientists and education officers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor. Read more posts here, and track the Falkor's progress here.

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The aforementioned surgery and recovery went well, and I am now part-cyborg (Achievement Unlocked). It's slowly starting to sink in that arthritis and I are friends for life, and we're trying to figure out the right combination of anti-inflammatory, corticosteroid and natural treatment, which will change in time. What a drag, I know. Life's not short, as my new favorite show says, but so long. "The only way to go is to just go on."

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Inspiring children to be interested in the geosciences isn't always an easy task. While dinosaurs, volcanoes and earthquakes are a sure hook (rightly so!), there is also much more to the Earth, ocean and planetary sciences!  Not only that, but new developments happen much more quickly than the lifetime of a textbook, meaning that breaking science is often underreported in the classroom.  However, distilling the complex science behind ocean dead zones, how scientists measure the height of ice sheets and the history of European droughts, into children friendly language which captures the imagination isn't plain sailing.

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There are some structural goodies here at the confluence of the Rapid River and the Salmon River in west-central Idaho. I visited these outcrops three weeks ago on a field trip after the Rocky Mountain section meeting of GSA. The rocks are the Light...

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The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 (.-.. / ... / ..---) spacecraft will identify itself from orbit using Morse code, and you can make the sound your ringtone....

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Today concludes a weeklong run of  virtual samples. For the past five days, I've been presenting examples of a visualization combination that leverages the advantages of the GIGAmacro system with the 3D 'virtual sample' perspective of the Sketchfab-hosted model: the same sample presented in both formats.

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