In honor of Aldo Leopold week, here is a slightly edited 2014 post on Aldo’s son, Luna. Water shapes the desert landscape. This seems strange
Category: Geoscientist of the Week
Repost: Guest Videos: Dinosaurs, Mammals, and Tilly Edinger
Here is an edited 2018 post about a clever paleoneurologist! A “game-changing” Cretaceous mammal fossil was reported in May 2018. To understand why paleontologists are
Repost: Etheldred Benett – “Lady Geologist”
Continuing with reposts (slightly revised) from 2014 on key geoscientists of the past! In the late 18th and early 19th century, men like James Hutton
Repost: Mary Anning: Fossils by the Sea Shore
Here’s another Geoscientist of the Week post from 2014. This is a guest post by Charles Dickens, who was quite taken with the “she” who
Repost: Alexander von Humboldt, Part 3 – Kosmos
Here is the third and final post (revised) in this 2014 series on an amazing scientist. Imagine if Albert Einstein had been the first
Repost: Alexander von Humboldt, Part 2: A New World Narrative
Here’s a slightly revised part 2 of the 2014 series on this ground-breaking Western naturalist. Alexander von Humboldt traveled to the New World with botanist
