To keep with the bittersweet theme, I wanted to leave a note for the entire department. I want you all to know that I will never forget any of you. No matter where I end up, the memories I’ve made at UPJ with both my classmates and professors will never fade. I am so lucky [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Moving away from my PA, and towards Mother Nature.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Biodiversity helps clean streams
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New studies show that the more diverse a streams biology is, it helps clean up pollutants in the stream quicker. Bradley Cardinale, an ecologist from the Univeristy of Michigan did studies on algae, and how it can help remove nitrate from water. He did many tests using many species of algae. Bradley discovered that the [...]
Hate Goodbyes
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s finally finals week, the end of a crazy semester and year. I don’t think any of us would have imagined 8 months ago we would all be such close friends today. The stories we can tell and inside jokes we know will not be forgotten. As much as we all may have anticipated this [...]
End of the Semester
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a few short days before the end of the semester and everyone is surely ready to get out and enjoy some nice weather. We pre-geologists have become quite a close-knit bunch this past semester. From the long spring break adventure to UPJ SPACE to mineral cases, we have definitely put in the time. So [...]
End of the Year Wrap-Up
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As this year comes to an end, I am definitely breathing a sigh of relief after an exhausting nineteen credit semester. This year was my first as a geology major and math minor, and I learned quite a bit. I came into the major with an open-minded attitude, but not really sure of what to [...]
You might need these.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to leave something behind for some of my classmates to use when I’m gone. For those of you who have not yet had Mineralogy, I think you’re going to need all the help you can get. That class was easily the hardest thing I’ve ever experienced. But a few valuable books and websites [...]
Yellowstone Caldera
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recent study to be published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal has concluded that the Yellowstone caldera magma plume could be larger than previously thought. A seismic study was conducted in 2009 to develop a theorized image of the plume which was thought to span nearly 600 miles beneath Yellowstone. The most recent survey [...]
New Dinosaur Found
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently in New Mexico at the Ghost Ranch fossil site, a new dinosaur was found. It lived around 205 million years ago. This was an important find because it bridges the gap between very early predators and later ones such as the t-rexes. The Daemonosaurus chauliodus (scientific name) was thought to be about the size of a large dog and [...]
National Tornado Day
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I stumbled across an article that talks about the unofficial National Tornado Day. That day being June 8th, which I thought was really cool because it’s my birthday and I love tornadoes. This date was chosen because of many historic and deadly tornadoes that have touched down on this date. An example is the F5 [...]
Meteor Craters
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In Pennsylvania, we geologists do not have the luxury of having a meteor crater nearby to study. However, through Google Earth and Maps, we can zoom in and measure several aspects of the crater such as diameter, circumference, and depth. Posted below is a list of the fifty largest meteor craters on earth to get [...]
