Via Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) on Twitter, comes this excellent and beautiful sequence of an ice arch collapsing in Antarctica. Via Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) on Twitter, comes this excellent and beautiful sequence of an ice arch collapsing in Antarctica.
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  December 19th, 2011  3 comments  Carnivals & Link Love, Natural Disaster, Plastic  marine debris, OSCURS model, physical oceanography, SCUD model, tsunami Estimation of debris path created with OSCURS model. The colors are years after the tsunami. Click through for more information. Map courtesy of J. Churnside (NOAA OAR) and created through Google. Debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami is headed towards Hawaii and the North American west coast. For those concerned, several new sources of information . . . → Read More: Japanese tsunami debris link roundup
By RickMac, on December 1st, 2011 6 comments Bringin' It, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster, Ramblings, Uncategorized, Weather National Climate Service, NOAA Some of these things are not like the other. Can you spot the Zombie worms? What’s the difference between a collection of Osedax “Zombie worms” and the 112th United States Congress? One is a population of spineless, sedentary, opportunistic life forms that thrive in darkness while devouring the bones of the dead. The other are . . . → Read More: When Far-Sighted Vision Meets Near-Sighted Politics or Zombie Worms For Congress!
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 29th, 2011 One comment Natural Disaster, Weather Atlantic, GOES, Hurricane, NOAA, satellite, Tropical Storm, Weather From NOAA Visualizations on YouTube: The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on Nov. 30 and produced a total of 19 tropical storms of which seven became hurricanes, including three major hurricanes. This level of activity matched NOAA’s predictions and continues the trend of active hurricane seasons that began in 1995. From Arlene to . . . → Read More: The 2011 Hurricane Season in 4.5 minutes
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 30th, 2011 4 comments Natural Disaster, Weather Beaufort, Hurricane, Hurricane Irene, Irene, Media Hype, New Bern, North Carolina, Outer Banks, Storm, twitter As you know by now, Hurricane Irene was pretty intense storm and it was HUGE! just check out the satellite image from NASA/Goddard. It was at least 1/3 the size of the whole US and affected areas on the coast of Florida through Maine, in addition to its prelude in Puerto Rico and the Bahamas. . . . → Read More: Hurricane Irene
Guess I will be expecting a full house of fleeing coastal members of DSN and Southern Fried Science! NOAA-Hurricane IRENE. Guess I will be expecting a full house of fleeing coastal members of DSN and Southern Fried Science! NOAA-Hurricane IRENE. In case you haven’t heard a 5.9 earthquake hit Virginia just outside of Richmond. I felt it in Durham, NC and Kevin felt it out on the coast. Reports from Twitter indicate it was also felt up in Boston. If you felt it, you can log into the USGS website and report your local conditions. A . . . → Read More: Virginia Earthquake
By Dr. M, on August 23rd, 2011 2 comments Natural Disaster, Weather earthquake, end times, Hurricane, Irene via Hurricane Irene: Prepare for a Category 4 ‘major hurricane’ – latimes.com. Hurricane Irene continues to grow in strength and ferocity and is now on track to become a Category 4 hurricane, authorities said. Fueled by warm waters and nothing to slow it down, the hurricane is taking a path that will likely skirt . . . → Read More: Hurricane Irene: Prepare for a Category 4 ‘major hurricane’
A water spout was recorded this morning just down the road from us in Wilmington, NC. In fact, we had just moved from Carolina Beach to Beaufort less than 2 weeks ago! Luckily, it wasn’t a very damaging spout but that spot was only a 10 minute drive from our old house! Anyways, pretty cool . . . → Read More: Carolina Beach Water Spout Today!
By para_sight, on June 10th, 2011 One comment Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, Life At Sea, Natural Disaster, New Research, Vessels and Equipment Fukushima, Japan, pollution, Radiation, Research There’s a research cruise underway right now to study the impacts of radiation release from the Fukushima disaster in Japan, using the UNOLS/U. Hawaii ship R/V Kaimikai-O-Kanaloa. You can read the overview here and follow the at sea blog of the 17 researchers here. The cruise features scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic, U. Tokyo, U. . . . → Read More: Follow along with Fukushima researchers
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