Last week I traveled just across the state line to Clemson, South Carolina in order to help grade the "free response" portion of the Advanced Placement Environmental Science ("APES") examinations taken by high school students. I went into this with some trepidation, since these students are essentially earning credit by taking this exam for a class ( Read more... )

I do not really take vacations, but I do like to have a lot of time to myself and I enjoy time spent with both of my parents. This month has flown by. At the outset I had to give and grade final exams, and I gave a lot of essays and paper assignments, particularly to my Environmental Science students. Smack dab in the middle of final exam week, I ( Read more... )

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Although this meme has now died a slow and well-deserved death, I am just now getting around to the challenge posed to me several weeks back by paularubia. Here are ten (10) things that (not so immediately) came to mind which all begin with the letter G....

1. Girls, Girls, Girls! - first on my list initially, although subsequently bumped by ( Read more... )

President Vicente Fox of Mexico just declined to sign the bill discussed in my previous post, repeated below. He sent it back to Congress so it could make "necessary corrections to be absolutely clear that..." Well, he yielded to pressure from neighboring authorities up north ( Read more... )

Shadoobie, his brain's been battered!

Keith Richards has vowed to give up booze and cigarettes in order to make a more rapid recovery.

Top 10 U.S. dirty air cities with the most soot and dust pollution measured on an annual basis (Atlanta tied for ninth):

1. Los Angeles

2. Bakersfield, Calif.

3. Pittsburgh

4. Visalia, Calif.

5. Fresno, Calif.

6. Detroit

7. Hanford, Calif.

8. Cleveland

9. Birmingham

9. Atlanta

(from today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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An interesting new post to the Iraqi War and Archaeology webpage discusses an operation being run out of Fort Drum, New York with the assistance of a classical archaeologist at Dartmouth University. The classical archaeologist, Dr. Robert Ulrich, is going to develop training materials that will help troops prevent damage to important archeological ( Read more... )

Poll Who?

My geology students were trying to guess my age today. All of the guesses came out less than 40. I told them that I am younger than the number of questions they will get on their final exam.