Here’s a look back at the last week of #GeomorphologyLessonDaily. We’re compiling these lessons with high schoolers in mind, but the content can be used for other levels as well. Tractor vs. River Bend Erosion Monday Doomed tractor?! Base level is lowered by removing...
Editor’s Note: This post on the Brazil Nut Effect was written by Steve Grimmer, Little River’s Artist Mechanic. In our planning meeting last week, I had to be reminded by my colleagues that the Brazil Nut Effect is a phenomenon wherein larger particles will tend to...
Scientist Steven Vogel died today. In early 2007 I called Steven Vogel out of the blue — we’d never met — expecting a short, maybe even hostile response from such an important man. We talked for over an hour that first time, and that hour profoundly...
Check out our new video on the revolutionary, turnkey, desktop Emflume1. We introduced the Emflume1 in 2013 and it is now in use around the world, helping students in engineering, geosciences, and fisheries learn fluid mechanics with hands-on experience in the lab....
Callan Bentley asked me about the large vortices in this photo from the Globe’s Big Picture series; I thought the answer was worth a post here. UPDATE: I’ll continue to add information of scientific interest regarding tsunami flooding and other...
