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A sharp-eyed Costa Rican has spotted a UFO caught by the OVSICORI webcam recently installed at the summit of Turrialba, reports La Prensa Libre. The sighting happened on 27 January and has been verified by ‘an expert on UFOs’ (so th...

They're playing serious beisbol in Venezuela already, but in the U.S. it's still a couple weeks before the bats start swinging. Groundskeepers at all levels, though, are probably getting their equipment and supplies ready to prepare...

Rosemont Copper is hosting a forum on the economic impacts of the proposed mine on Feb. 16, with sponsorship by the Tucson Hispanic and Green Valley Chambers of Commerce, and by the mining industry group AMIGOS.The announcement says...

A special exhibit, “Treasures of the Queen: The Amazing Minerals and Mystery of Bisbee, Arizona,” will run through May 31 at the UA Mineral Museum in Tucson.According to the Sierra Vista Herald, the exhibit will include "extraordina...

We're doing something new and different at the AZGS store in Tucson this week.   Well-known potter Oralia Lopez from the Mata Ortiz village in Mexico, will be demonstrating her techniques of painting and finishing her distinctive po...

If you are a teacher, you know that one of the chores of an otherwise fulfilling career is the massive pile of grading which must be done. I swear sometimes I am narcoleptic or ADD, because if I sit in a quiet room with a stack of p...

The USGS flood  ("High Flow Experiment") in the Grand Canyon in 2008 demonstrated significant sandbar development but the results were fairly rapidly eroded away once the Colorado River flow was again constrained by its use for powe...

After the Haiti earthquake, many engineers and disaster planners are finding that their concerns have a momentarily high profile. One of those concerns is better construction. This has been highlighted by the obvious: Haiti's buildi...

Just got a note about a two-year-old blog about geology that has so far escaped my attention (and possibly also the attention of the curator of the geoblogosphere, Robert Huber?) Bloc de camp (Catalan for "Field Notebook") is a blog...

 Here are links to recent legislation introduced in the Arizona House that may be of interest to the geoscience community:HB2574 - Allows counties and municipalities to establish renewable energy districts to utilize new energy equi...

Thanks to the 64 of you who have already completed the survey which accompanied the thousandth post here. The survey is intended for ALL readers of this blog, no matter who you are. So if you haven't yet shared your feedback, please...

You may remember our discussion here a little while ago about the very large Laacher See caldera eruption in what is now Germany, around 13,000 years ago. Laacher See, now a peaceful but CO2-bubbling lake in the German countryside, ...

Soufrière Hills continues to produce a great deal of activity. The Montserrat Volcano Observatory reports that a significant vulcanian eruption occurred at Soufrière Hills volcano on Montserrat on Friday 5 February 2010. The event b...

As part of a cooperative program with the National Park Service, AZGS geologists Phil Pearthree, Jeri Young, Ann Youberg are currently working on 1:24,000-scale surficial geologic maps that will cover all of the area within Organ Pi...

I got up to the gem and mineral show at the Westward Look resort in Tucson today for a quick walk-through.   This is clearly where the big action is. in almost every suite I went into, the people talking were clearly 'insiders.'    ...

Non geo-content warning! I'm watching my first football game of the year, and can't wait for the rest of the season. I guess I'm not conforming to type; I'm actually alone grading papers, getting a caffeine high from Mountain Dew, a...

Down at the Martin Luther King Shoreline Regional Park, three creeks debouch into San Leandro Bay. I already talked about San Leandro Creek; the other two are Lion Creek, below (more about it here and here), and Elmhurst Creek, bott...

This installment of Sea-Floor Sunday highlights a place I’ve never been. But, that’s about to change — my wife and I are headed to Hawai’i next week for an actual vacation. I can’t even remember when I’ve had one of those! The image...