Wildfire Suppression
Speaking only for myself, for the most part I blame Smokey Bear. Susie and I needed to go to the coast last Sunday, and had a chance to travel down Highway 199 along the...
Mike Strickler Geologist
This really ticks me off…
Sure, ticks like springtime when they can hide in moist grasslands and woods, but it seems like every season is tick season here in southwest Oregon. Having lived and worked in the woods for...
Deep Sea Mining
I read an interesting article in Mother Jones (7/16/23) about mining on the deep-sea floor (aka the abyssal plain) for metallic nodules. This follows up on another article on the same site that discusses...
Lightning and Thunder and Bears, oh my…
This one’s gonna be short. Susie is with Bailey in Italy, and I escaped to the deck to try and find the universe. The good news is that it found me. I’ve been sitting...
E-waste and rational resource management
How many of you still have your original cellphone? Not your flip-phone, I’m talking about the brick you had before that. But hey, what did happen to your first flip-phone? Or your first beeper...
A couple good reads…
I’d like to recommend a couple books that I’ve read and highly recommend for anyone who is looking to expand their knowledge of the earth, and appreciates pictures to help them along the way...
Pompeii vs. Herculaneum in 79 A.D.
Susie just loves to visit Italy, and suffers the twenty-plus hour one-way trip whenever she can find the time (and airfare). I tagged along several years ago, and while the focaccia bread on the...
Obsidian cutting tools
I read an interesting article in the New York Times that discussed the obsidian outcrops in Yellowstone National Park, and how they were mined for hundreds to thousands of years to supply the cutting...
Climate change and sea level rise
How long can you tread water? It’s become almost a daily bluster: articles bemoaning the reality of climate change and how it is going to destroy the earth and lead to the end of...
Earthquakes, Seismic Waves, and the New Madrid Fault
How far do earthquake waves travel, and what can cause different quakes to be felt at a greater or lesser distance? This is a fine question, and before we get started, feel free to...
