Alumnus John Cloud (PhD, 2000), a Geographer, writer, and editor for the NOAA Central Library, recently wrote to say: “My friend and colleague Scott Byram just published a book on the re-application of historic Coast Survey data of various kinds to California coastal landscape research and re-construction. The data he addresses includes the comprehensive mapping, in the later 19th century, of the entire coastline of Santa...
Read MoreScientists think they know why some European glaciers started to shrink decades before climate change had begun to raise temperatures. It wasn’t warming that attacked the glaciers, they say in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It was soot from industry, steam locomotives, and domestic fires. Alex Kirby, a former BBC environment correspondent and founding journalist of Climate News Network, sums up the findings...
Read MoreSchool and team emblems, notably Native American mascots, nicknames, and logos, have come under attack in the last few years by the politically correct police, and emblems such as the Dartmouth College “Indian” have bitten the dust (Dartmouth is now simply “The Big Green”; actually, the Indian was never the official mascot). Even professional sports are under fire to comply with the U.S. Commission on Civil...
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