Back from a brilliant week on Jersey, in the Channel Islands, with the second-year Marine Geography students. After an island reconnoitre last Sunday, we spent Monday walking beaches; Tuesday in the Jersey Museum and Maritime Museum (with market-stall lunch at the Central Market in St Helier); Wednesday with officials from the States of Jersey Department…
Read More#Anthropocene reading (a Top Five-or-so list)
Sometimes the rabbit hole of the Internet leads back to one’s own bookshelf of hard copies. Over the weekend, Ken Caldeira (@KenCaldeira) circulated a link to an interview with journalist Caspar Henderson on FiveBooks: “Caspar Henderson chooses books on Growing Up in the Anthropocene.” I’ve always been envious of other people’s Top Five lists, and…
Read MoreOverwash patterns – intial results from a little numerical model
I’ve been working today on a simplified model of storm overwash. According to my own sparse comments, I’d last tinkered with this code in December 2011. Not surprising, then, that it took all day to get reacquainted before I tore it down to the sills and started over. In this movie, there are four points…
Read MoreHighlights from AGU 2012
At the AGU 2012 Fall Meeting, Dylan McNamara (UNC Wilmington), Andrew Ashton (WHOI) and I sponsored a session titled “The Future of Human–Landscape Systems,” which featured two invited speakers: Peter Haff (Duke) and Brad Werner (UCSD). Because of various changes to the session structure, both speakers were free to present for an easy half-hour each.…
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