The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are looking for nominations for an ad hoc steering committee. The workshop will bring together experts to consider tipping points, cascading impacts, and interacting risks in the Earth system. Nominations from all fields are welcome with expertise in natural, physical, and social and behavioral sciences, including such disciplines as climate science, oceanography, environmental science, economics, engineering, computer modeling and data science, decision support, sociology, and anthropology.
We invite you to submit nominations for this committee by June 3, 2022.
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The fall is upon us in Iceland. Summer mass balance collections today at Mýrdalsjökull. Likely a low melt year in Iceland.
The original "Rock." ⛰️
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The 3.72 my old Hannegan Caldera in the north Cascades "We got up to Hannegan Pass and, blammo, this smacked us in the face."
This little dinosaur is no bigger than a bird, so its widely spaced footprints were quite puzzling.
@umdgeology's Tom Holtz helped recreate this raptor's movements millions of years later, shedding new light on the origin of flight. http://go.umd.edu/d-rarus