Un enfoque de modelización ascendente podría acercar a los científicos a la comprensión de las comunidades de microbios en la atmósfera.| Eos
So you’ve finished teaching the types of plate boundaries and continental drift. Now it’s time to get to the more exiting stuff… earthquakes! I just so happened to be teaching earthquakes when the Turkey earthquake of 2023 occurred. Students were glued to news sites and I tried to really foster empathy within my students as ... Read more The post Earthquake Lesson Plans appeared first on Science Lessons That Rock.| Science Lessons That Rock
Keith’s note: According to this AP story: “Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went dark. Such sites tell state and local governments and the public what to expect in their backyards from a warming world and how best to adapt to it. At the time, the White House said NASA would house the reports to comply with a 1990 law that […] The post NASA Said It Would Post Climate Reports – Not Any More app...| Earth Science Archives - NASA Watch
Several sources report that the NASA GISS lease of the Armstrong Hall building in New York City can't be broken by| NASA Watch
Keith’s note: OK so I am ‘back’. Thanks for all the kind words, support etc. Let’s get down to business. The month of September is going to be the hardest yet for NASA. Multiple budget profiles will collide with one another – in an inelastic fashion. Missions will be on hold and operate in holding pattern mode. Other missions will simply die at the hands of budgeteers. And the people […] The post NASA Forecast For September 2025 appeared first on NASA Watch.| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
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At any given moment about 2,000 thunderstorms roll over Earth, producing some 50 flashes of lightning every second. Each lightning burst creates electromagnetic waves that begin to circle around Earth captured between Earth's surface and a boundary about 60 miles up. Some of the waves - if they have just the right wavelength - combine, increasing in strength, to create a repeating atmospheric heartbeat known as Schumann resonance. This resonance provides a useful tool to analyze Earth's weath...| NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Using paleomagnetic samples collected along the shores of Lake Superior, a new study illuminates the movement of a billion-year-old paleocontinent as it crept south toward a tectonic collision.| Eos
NASA is chartered to do climate science| NASA Watch
Tired of frustrating Earth Science lessons? Journey Homeschool Academy provides streamlined, engaging Christian homeschool earth science lessons designed for busy families. Reclaim your joy in homeschooling today!| Journey Homeschool Academy
A bottom-up modeling approach could bring scientists closer to understanding communities of microbes in the atmosphere.| Eos
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.| AP News
Keith’s note: This letter from Earth scientists has also been published in Science magazine and is reprinted here with the permission of the authors [Science, 389, 357-358. doi:10.1126/science.adz6100]: “In May, the US administration proposed budget cuts to NASA, including a more than 50% decrease in funding for the agency’s Earth Science Division (ESD) (1), the mission of which is to gather knowledge about Earth through space-based observation and other tools […] The post NASA Earth ...| Budget Archives - NASA Watch
Keith’s note: There is a meeting next week regarding Landsat: Sustainable Land Imaging Mission Alternatives Analysis Team Industry. The meeting is looking for the cheapest way to do the least with Landsat as a result of the President’s FY 2026 Budget Request. The PBR seeks to cancel Landsat missions and descope Earth science budgets at NASA. One small problem: NASA is acting as if the PBR is the actual budget […] The post NASA Prepares To Gut Its Landsat Capabilities appeared first on N...| TrumpSpace Archives - NASA Watch
A geophysicist brings math down to Earth and reaches a rural audience.| Eos
Article archive for students from – They’re using the techniques honed by oil and gas to find near-limitless clean energy beneath our feet, CNN, 7/22/2025 Deep beneath Utah’s desert soil, an …| KaiserScience
Training schools focused on modeling solid Earth responses to ice mass changes offer lessons on how early-career scientists can build professional networks and learn skills to solve complex problems.| Eos
A technology called Dynamic Targeting could enable spacecraft to decide, autonomously and within seconds, where to best make science observations from orbit.| NASA
Keith’s note: Update on the earlier post Going Out Of Business Sale For JPL Satellites: emails are circulating within JPL and NASA that mention a number of satellites that are listed as being targeted for shut down in the President’s FY 2026 budget request. NASA HQ is apparently not waiting for an actual budget. The list of satellites of the discount rack at NASA now includes OCO-2, OCO-3, SAGE III, […] The post But Wait: More Used Satellite Bargains At NASA appeared first on NASA Watch.| Budget Archives - NASA Watch
the following was sent out to users of the NCCS MSS| NASA Watch
Dromaeosauridae is a clade of highly specialised small- to mid-sized theropod dinosaurs closely related to birds. Their fossils have been found in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America…| Letters from Gondwana.
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and applied research, Research Opportunities in| NASA Science
This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience.This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project: Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECCO2. ECCO2 uses the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) to synthesize satellite and ...| NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
The FjordPhyto citizen science project invites polar tourists onboard cruise vessels to gather data samples, helping researchers understand changes in microalgae.| NASA Science
During the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, the status of paleontology as an evolutionary discipline was attempted to be established by a number of paleontologists. From 16th to 19th October 1980, the Field Museum of Natural History held the Macroevolution Conference, a historic event that challenged the four-decade-long dominance of the Modern Synthesis. […]| Letters from Gondwana.
Eutyrannosauria, the superfamily of carnivorous dinosaurs that includes the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex, dominated the Asian and North American terrestrial faunas during the latest Cretaceous. Through…| Letters from Gondwana.
This is the 'beauty shot version' of Perpetual Ocean 2: Western Boundary Currents. The visualization starts with a rotating globe showing ocean currents. The camera then zooms into the Kuroshio current, moves over the Indian Ocean to the Agulhas Current, then over to the Gulf Stream. The flows from the surface down to 600 meters deep are all white. Flows below 600 meters depth use the blue-cyan-white color table below.| NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Last night NASA SMD AA Nicky Fox was presented with the Collier Award for NASA's Parker Solar Probe| NASA Watch
Like many environmental scientists, early exposure to nature sparked my interest in the field. But so did the 1990 video game SimEarth, game studio Maxis's first release after SimCity. SimEarth was more than mere entertainment, however. It was Maxis co-founder Will Wright’s effort to disseminate an idea that captivated| The Science of Fiction
The Triassic beds of Argentina and Brazil play a key role in understanding of the origin and early diversification of Dinosauria. The first recorded dinosaurs include some predatory forms, such as …| Letters from Gondwana.
Keith’s note: NASA’s Planetary Science Analysis/Assessment Groups have issued a document dated 6 May 2025, titled “AGness”. According to the authors (which has been annotated to enhance clarity, original document below), addressing members of the planetary science community: “The linked document below, The Keys of AGness, is a product of the collective Planetary Analysis and Assessment Groups (AGs), presented by their Chairs and vetted through their respective Steering/Executive Com...| Space Life Science Archives - NASA Watch
now that budget cuts and layoffs are approaching, government science agencies are starting to come up with the public-facing rationale| NASA Watch
Keith's note: NASA has led space science and "Made America Great In Space" for more than half a century.| NASA Watch
Here are the NASA excerpts from the FY 2026 Budget outline| NASA Watch
Keith's note: according to NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy at Science| NASA Watch
Science agency funding is under heavy scrutiny by DOGE, OMB, OPM and other Administration offices| NASA Watch
Therizinosauria is a group of unusual theropod dinosaurs known from Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America. The clade exhibits unique features, including lanceolate teeth, a rostral rhamphotheca, and a broad, opisthopubic pelvis. Some of those characteristics are associated with a shift in dietary preferences and an adaptation to herbivory. But the most striking feature, […]| Letters from Gondwana.
The evolution of the avian skull is marked by radical transformations of the braincase, palate, and snout. Brain size correlated with major evolutionary innovations like cognition, flight, environm…| Letters from Gondwana.
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On 10 February 1825, Gideon Algernon Mantell’s paper “Notice on the Iguanodon, a newly discovered fossil reptile from the sandstone of Tilgate Forest” was read by Davies Gilbert MP at a meeting of the Royal Society of London. In the paper, Mantell gives a brief description of the characteristics of the sandstones of Tilgate […]| Letters from Gondwana.
In April 1842, Owen created the group “Dinosauria” using three taxa: Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus, based on three main characters: large size and terrestrial habits, uprigh…| Letters from Gondwana.
You won't believe why Earth's magnetic North Pole is racing towards Siberia, threatening navigation systems worldwide and puzzling scientists.| AIBlogPostWriter
It was the worst of times. It was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of incredulity. 2024 was marked by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the return of the totalitarisms, and extreme weather e…| Letters from Gondwana.
Dinosaurs likely originated in the Middle Triassic and the first unequivocal dinosaur fossils are known from the late Carnian. The main environmental changes that occurred at the very end of the Tr…| Letters from Gondwana.
Want to try a read aloud with your earth science students? Browse this list of my favorite earth and space science picture books!| Science Lessons That Rock
A survey of experts revealed that uncertainty in estimates of global methane levels stems largely from data on fresh water, vegetation, and coastal areas.| Eos
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus found by Mary Anning. From: W D Conybeare, 1824 Mary Anning was born in Lyme Regis on May 21, 1799. Her father was a carpenter and an amateur fossil collector who died wh…| Letters from Gondwana.
The map was updated on March 15, 2023, to correct times in Mexico along the total eclipse path. ||| NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
