Morgan Schaller
@onlyoneion
Geochemist and Earth System scientist
@rpi ... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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16-02-2021 02:25:27
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"We got dinosaurs completely wrong. They are fundamentally cold-adapted animals. They are fundamentally insulated. And that was the key to their success," says Lamont geologist Paul Olsen, lead author of a new study. Via BBC World Service at 23:56. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…
Even my drying oven is telling me to stop procrastinating on those AGU (American Geophysical Union) abstracts...
"Severe wintry episodes during volcanic eruptions may have brought freezing temps to tropics, which is where many extinctions of big, naked, unfeathered vertebrates seem to have occurred," says Columbia Climate School LDEO's Dennis Kent. Via BBC Science Focus Magazine sciencefocus.com/nature/dinosau…
Ah, AGU (American Geophysical Union), another year where everyone pays $700 to attend a poster session since there are so few talks. This is clearly a choice by AGU. Other societies, like ACS, can run a large meeting with ample oral sessions. This is why I stopped attending @AGU fall meetings.