Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Gudmundsson, L. and Seneviratne, S. I.: Towards observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 2859-28 ...[Read More]
Words on Wednesday: Remediation of degraded arable steppe soils in Moldova using vetch as green manure
Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Wiesmeier, M., Lungu, M., Hübner, R., and Cerbari, V., 2015. Remediation of degraded arable steppe soils in Moldova using vetch as green man ...[Read More]
Words on Wednesday: Poroelastic responses of confined aquifers to subsurface strain changes and their use for volcano monitoring
Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Strehlow, K., Gottsmann, J. H., and Rust, A. C., 2015. Poroelastic responses of confined aquifers to subsurface strain changes and their use ...[Read More]
Whodunit?: It was Mankind With the Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
Last week I came across this beautifully illustrated account of what is causing the planet’s rising temperature, based on findings obtained by NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies. The graphic is designed by Erik Roston and Blacki Migliozzi, in collaboration with Kate Marvel and Gavin Schmidt of NASA-GISS. Check out the full article What’s really warming the world? on Bloomb ...[Read More]
Words on Wednesday: Effects of soil settlement and deformed geometry on a historical structure
Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Yardım, Y. and Mustafaraj, E., 2015. Effects of soil settlement and deformed geometry on a historical structure, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sc ...[Read More]
The mysterious subsidence of the seafloor due to oil production – How to predict it with a simple model?
by Daniel Keszthelyi Physics of Geological Processes group at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo Over 40 years of oil production from the Ekofisk field caused the overlying seafloor to sink over 9 meters during the years and while there have been numerous researches on the topic; the clear understanding of what happens with the reservoir rocks during production is still missing. We crea ...[Read More]
Words on Wednesday: The ocean carbon sink – impacts, vulnerabilities and challenges
Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Heinze, C., Meyer, S., Goris, N., Anderson, L., Steinfeldt, R., Chang, N., Le Quéré, C., and Bakker, D. C. E., 2015. The ocean carbon sink – ...[Read More]
The Pore Space Scramble
by Alexandra Gormallya and Michelle Benthamb aLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK; bBritish Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK The underground is being used more to help us meet some of the challenges facing humans from tackling climate change, waste disposal to ensuring energy security. The notion of ‘pore space’ and its commodification, h ...[Read More]
Words on Wednesday: Do Himalayan treelines respond to recent climate change? An evaluation of sensitivity indicators
Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Schickhoff, U., Bobrowski, M., Böhner, J., Bürzle, B., Chaudhary, R. P., Gerlitz, L., Heyken, H., Lange, J., Müller, M., Scholten, T., Schwa ...[Read More]
Funding opportunity for Early Career Researchers to attend GSA Baltimore
The Heritage Stone Task Group in southern Europe is a Task Group within the IUGS. In March, HSTG had a proposal accepted as Project 637 of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP 637). With this acceptance, IGCP 637 offered $US6,000 in 2015 to support conference participation. HSTG has decided that this funding should be used in 2015 to support attendance to our session in the GSA Baltimore ...[Read More]