NEWS & COMMENTARY FROM THE WORLD OF EARTH SCIENCE. Last week we intrepid #sciwriters seemed to be feeling a bit discouraged by lack of progress, but hopefully this week is looking a bit better.
It could be that, come Saturday, we decided to put off writing this check-in post until we had something positive to report, or we could just be that far behind in our to-do lists. In any case, here’s our next-to-last update on February writing progress. More Grumbine Science. Outdoor Science. Saving 1,522 lives on the Titanic with technology from the Langseth: fact or fiction? My girlfriend once asked me a question a while ago, "why do you study ancient volcanism?
" I must admit I found it a little difficult communicating in clear and simple terms the motive behind what I do. " I want to know why Earth works the way it does," I remember explaining. I also tried justifying my interest in using computers to investigate the earth: " You know, developments in existing seismic methods borrow from the fields of mathematics and medical imaging.
Who knows, methods developed in this research may someday be used in other fields. "