Going Negative on "Negative Feedback" part of Earth and Mind:Posts
The terms "negative feedback" and "positive feedback" are used in earth system science for processes that push systems towards equilibrium or towards extremes. But in popular culture and other ...

The Geosciences and a Career in Business part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Geoscience and the 21st Century Workforce:Essays
Gerald Fine, Boston University I write not as a member of a geoscience department, but as a geologist who leveraged his training into a long and varied career. I graduated from Amherst College in 1980 with a B.A. ...

A growing major in Earth Science at UCSD part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Geoscience and the 21st Century Workforce:Essays
Geoffrey Cook, University of California-San Diego We have a relatively new (since 2007) undergraduate program in Earth Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The program is unique in that it is ...

More Hypothesis Templates part of Earth and Mind:Posts
The author suggests "hypothesis templates" for the observation that (a) two phenomena co-occur in space, and (b) an object or group of objects have a distinctive shape. "Hypothesis templates" ...

Was "Voyage of the Mimi" Effective? part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Author recalls her own involvement with the "Voyage of the Mimi" educational TV series, cites positive and negative (anecdotal) evidence of its effectiveness, and invites reader to reflect on the question ...

A Well Graded Trail part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Thoughts on structuring work on both short and long time scales to increase productivity and avoid burn out.

"...oil is first found ... in the minds of men" part of Earth and Mind:Posts
In 1952, petroleum geologist Wallace Pratt wrote that oil is first found in the mind, and only later by drilling into the Earth. Reflecting on this insight shows modern readers that thinking about Earth and mind is ...

Evolution selects for Energy Conservation part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Many fundamental attributes of plants and animals can be understood as an evolutionary adaption that allows the organism to conserve energy, including the streamlined shape of fish, the feathers and hollow bones of ...

How I Got Here Part III: Towards Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the Earth Sciences part of Earth and Mind:Posts
The authro reflects on how community services were developed to support scholarship of teaching and learning in the Earth Sciences.

An Earth Science Curriculum By Design part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Geoscience and the 21st Century Workforce:Essays
David Mogk, Dept. Earth Sciences, Montana State University The Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, recently implemented a top to bottom revision of its curriculum. We are a department that ...