Climate change and weather extremes.

Feb 17, 2009

Here I’ll just refer to a couple of typically excellent posts from Jeff Master’s Wunderblog. The first is on temperature records and extremes, and is an especially good response to the bobbleheads on TV who propose that “it’s really cold out...

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Cara off to RRNW, more media work.

Feb 2, 2009

We worked on modeling media issues this week, this time on methods to wash it to remove dust and other debris. Here Cara and Jesse agitate a batch. The street value of the exotic color-coded-by-size media in the buckets you see here beside an Em4 box is about $6,000....

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Museums, grant writing, record rainfall in St. Louis.

Dec 28, 2008

We’re super busy these days–Cara and I are mostly working on resubmitting an NSF grant due in early January. We have collaborators at SIUC and a few other universities. This photo is typical–it’s such hard work, and has consumed many of my...

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Call for change on climate change.

Nov 3, 2008

I guess I missed the point where the right wing radio bloviators and such started accepting climate change as reality–it seems not long ago this was still debated, at least by politicians and the ill (Fox News) informed. We still have the debate as to cause, of...

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Record annual rainfall in St. Louis.

Oct 28, 2008

Here’s a blog I’ve just discovered: Mother Nature Watch, written by, as far as I can tell, faculty at the Center for Environmental Science at St. Louis University. And an interesting post from October 7; link, quote: Today’s rainfall is bringing the St....

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