The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are looking for nominations for an ad hoc steering committee. The workshop will bring together experts to consider tipping points, cascading impacts, and interacting risks in the Earth system. Nominations from all fields are welcome with expertise in natural, physical, and social and behavioral sciences, including such disciplines as climate science, oceanography, environmental science, economics, engineering, computer modeling and data science, decision support, sociology, and anthropology.
We invite you to submit nominations for this committee by June 3, 2022.
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This little dinosaur is no bigger than a bird, so its widely spaced footprints were quite puzzling.
@umdgeology's Tom Holtz helped recreate this raptor's movements millions of years later, shedding new light on the origin of flight. http://go.umd.edu/d-rarusCalcite & Pyrite, Hunan, China #MineralMonday
This lava-dome complex of Guatemala's Santa María volcano has been actively erupting since 1922.
😎#unconformity in southern Portugal🇵🇹
Have you ever seen a fish inside an ammonite shell? Now you have. #FossilFriday
This Jurassic specimen comes from Holzmaden and is on display at the Hauff Museum. I featured a similar fossil in my book, "LOCKED IN TIME", of tiny fish trapped inside giant clams.