Earth Sciences Forum

billiards · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: Introductions

Greetings all,

My name is Jack, I am a geophysicist from the UK. I set up this site because I was frustrated with other earth science forums on the web, hopefully this place will provide me (and you) with some more than satisfactory discussion. Apart from science, I am also interested in music (especially guitars), and politics.

Andre · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject: Andre

Hi I'm André and I'm frustrated with the deplorable state what the Earth science is in. I give an immediate example:

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/97/4/1390.pdf?ck=nck

Now, can anybody tell me how much West Norway and the Alps have warmed during the transition from the last glacial. I thought I could until I read the conclusion. Shocked

Anyway, here to challenge some paradigms.
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NileQueen · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject:

Greetings!

I am Joanne. I just graduated with a BA in geosciences from Indiana University and will start this fall at University of Cincinnati in the geology/glaciology department. My interests are late Pleistocene climate change, and megafaunal extinction, which take me into all kinds of disciplines. I'd like to know i.e. why the Laurentian ice sheet melted, why Greenland ice sheet didn't (or at least held its own), and what causes Heinrich events. How would we build an ice sheet theoretically?

billiards · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject:

Welcome Andre and Joanne!

You are the first members of this forum, here from day 1.
It appears that you both have quite similar interests which can only be a good thing...

Congratulations on your BA Joanne, you have some questions that I sure would like the answers to myself! If you would like to explore these in more depth, may I suggest that you make a new topic in the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate forum, where your questions are more likely to receive specific attention Very Happy

. I see that Andre has already got stuck in.

wolram · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 7

Great idea billiards, i will not be able to add much, i hope to learn more.

Mk · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 18

Hello, I am Mac; I believe we're all pretty familiar with each other so far. I would be glad to help out with anything technical of the site as well, if I can.

billiards · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject:

Welcome Wolram and Mac, good to see you.

Wolram, I have seen your posts in PF, I'm sure your knowledge will be valuable to us here, and we are all hoping to learn from each other (no pressure or anything Wink

).

Mac, your enthusiasm has been notified, if you want to mod PM me and we'll sort it out...

Cheers

scpg02 · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 221 Location: Sacramento

Hello, I'm Maggie and I'm not a scientist of any kind. Hope I'm not to out of place here. I post on a few different forums.

And billards, your avatar is waaaay to big. Sorry just my opinion.

Andre · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject:

Hi Maggie,

Really, I think it's a very good idea to be here. Despite Discovery channel and such networks, I think there is still a gap between the Earth specialists and other people. Scientific papers seem boring to read and highly incomprehensable. That also means that there are only a few really controlling what's going in the several branches of Earth science. Therefore, I think it should be known to all who care that things are not such a done deal at all.

I see for instance that the specialists in one corner seem not to talk to specialists in other corners. The most flagrant example is the ice core climatologists and the paleonthologists living in a completely different world. They also have different ages, ice core people use calendar dates while paleonthologists have carbon ages, which means that they cannot compare their results.

But how about problems within one article that I hinted to:
West Norway:

Baywax · Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 113 Location: Pacific West Coast

You guessed it, its a bloody Canadian! From Vancouver no less!

I've posted my jam band website because billiards seems interested in music. If you look at my interests you'll see I'm fairly earthish with paleointerests (all of them including botony, anthropology etc...) Archaeology (12 years just studying/excavating and surveying a 1500 km radius around this river basin we're in, geology (comes with the territory) biology (to 3rd year), History and Art History and Music and Money.

I have many friends who are threatening to disown me because I have questioned the hype and propaganda surrounding Global Swarming. You should see the indignant faces when you question why people are not paying more attention to over fishing, drugs and antibiotics in our drinking water.... and other concerns.

In fact, the closest friend of mine will be signing the American Academy of Arts and Sciences roster along side Al (I invented the internet) Gore and she is an incredibly critical mind yet can't see beyond the big scare and her egotistical tendencies where she thinks she'll save the world.... just like big Al.
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Baywax · Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 113 Location: Pacific West Coast

Sorry, just testing my avitar. Wink

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billiards · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

Welcome Maggie and Baywax,

Maggie, I recognize you from 'The Science Forum' where I put a link to this place in my sig, I haven't got round to PMing individuals from that place yet (I'll do that tonight). Most of the rest of us are from 'The Physics Forum' (PF), even thought most of us aren't really physicists! Oh and about the avitar, it was too big so I changed it Wink

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Baywax, just listened to your music, very raw, nice funk jam I listened to, was that you on guitar? So you're an archaeologist, I actually did some archaeological geophysics last year at uni, managed to find some early 17th Century copper mines in the English Lake District.

With regards to this talk about global (s)warming (sic?), just in case anybody was wondering, I didn't set up this forum just for anti-GW people to vent their steam, I personally am of "cautiously pessimistic" GW stance (basically I believe it is really happening and that humans are probably making it worse). In fact, GW is not of especial importance in this forum, anything earth science related goes... but of course, if our users want to talk global warming (from whatever position they happen to have) - then talk global warming they shall.

MacGyver1968 · Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Dallas, Texas

I'm here!! I'm no Earth Science expert, but I'll try..and you know me..I'll try to add a few jokes.

Dang...10 members and 2 Mac's...this could get confusing...guess I'll go by Mitch on this board. Smile

edit: ps.. I'll mod if you want me to. I have experience...and no life.

scpg02 · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 221 Location: Sacramento

Andre · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:16 am Post subject: