Miss the USGS lecture?

Original post made on Mar 2, 2010

Did you miss the recent U.S. Geological Service talk in Menlo Park on the USGS ARkSTORM project? That project considers the possibility of a hurricane-like storm striking the West Coast and staying for weeks, as happen in the winter of 1861.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 8:54 AM

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Posted by Steve
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Mar 2, 2010 at 1:40 pm

To draw attention to a couple of my favorite talks:
The Winemaker's Dance
Connecting Geology and Wine in Napa Valley
Geologist David Howell answers the questions "Does a glass of wine really contain 100 million years of geologic history ?" and "If "2-buck chuck" is drinkable, why bother with a $100 bottle of wine? "
Web Link

Hot Oil, Frozen Ground, and Earthquakes
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline story-- so far, so good!
Three emeritus scientists discuss how a chance conversation at a urinal in 1968 led to a major redesign of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline and the complex battle of scientific, economic, safety, environmental, and political concerns that resulted.
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