A liquid syllabus is designed to humanize you and your course to students and present information in a mobile-friendly format. The post Making your syllabus liquid appeared first on GeoEd Trek. | Continue reading
Initial Planet satellite images show multiple long runout landslides in Malawi, triggered by Cyclone Freddy. | Continue reading
That bastion of "quality" journalism, the Daily Mail, has an article about the Highway 3 landslide that includes a set of high quality images of the | Continue reading
Dynamic liquefaction, a key process that generates landslides in earthquakes, especially for example in the loess of China, also sinks large ships | Continue reading
A new study simulates ocean tides on imaginary Earth-like worlds, revealing the limits of topography’s influence on tidal energy | Continue reading
Edenville Dam failure: an astonishing video of the full collapse sequence is on Youtube. It appears to show a geotechnical failure rather than overtopping | Continue reading
Antarctica’s ice sheets are still releasing radioactive chlorine from marine nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s, a new study finds. This suggests regions in Antarctica store and vent the radioactive element differently than previously thought. The results also improve scientists’ … | Continue reading
The Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea has a long history of ritualistic cannibalism, resulting in a crippling outbreak of a degenerative brain disease called Kuru in the 1950’s. The epidemic devestated the tribe, but some survivors of the Kuru epidemic are now found to show signs of … | Continue reading
When we look back on 20th-century science a few decades from now, a few images that stand out above the rest. Earthrise may be the most famous. It was taken by Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders 50 years ago last December. I’ve written before about how that single image changed the w … | Continue reading
Anak Krakatau: @planetlabs have captured excellent imagery, including a high resolution SkySat view, of the aftermath of the landslide | Continue reading