Did you land here just surfing the web? I'd hate to see you go away empty-handed, so I always have plenty of reading material on this site for your entertainment. I hope it contains a few nuggets that you can put to good use.
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Bioterrorism: Snappy article I wrote about the American Biowatch program.
Black Sea: I wrote this article about the environmental issues of the Black Sea, written for an engineering company. I've cooperated with Russian marine scientist Alexander Vershinin on this topic, and savetheblacksea.org.
Earth science: Read up on geoforensics (whodunit and where did he do it?) (about Romans), pick up some geochemistry for birds (chirpy chirpy cheep cheep) (Laura Font), or get introduced to the science of fluid inclusions. Features Jacques Touret, Igor Nikogosian, contains quotes from others.
Energy from waste: Heard of the Bandeirantes landfill in Brazil and how much biogas energy it generates?
Energy from water and salt: This article on salinity gradient energy, includes a comparison of RED vs. PRO (blue energy) and solar ponds (not blue energy but an already operational form of salinity gradient energy).
Fact sheets: Bombay sapphires: do they exist? and yes, you can help limit flooding, read about serpentinite, a state mineral, and even learn how to write a scientific article.
Gaming: Games and the water sector. Educating the public, limiting disaster risks, and advancing the field of water management and engineering. I threw in some water use tips.
HABs or red tides: How do HABs affect wildlife?
Handy downloads are available, for instance, if you want to know how to cook meat. Yes, really. No, really! Two physicists and a writer used a computer program called FlexPDE to model their meat problems. Here is the handy download (PDF). Clicking on the blue image above gets you a tool to help you.
Cooking that meat on a lawn in a coastal area? Get the download about how to limit flooding (PDF).
Interview, about high-tech entrepreneurship, an office that includes a pet snake, the importance of gaming in science and many more aspects of a geochemist's life, with interview with geochemist Robyn Hannigan, chair of Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences at UMass Boston. I have interviewed many more people in science and technology all over the world.
Marine archeology: There is quite a bit of chemistry involved in preserving the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's favorite warship. Keywords: sulfur, iron, synchotron.
Muddy art: Brazilian art inspired by soil samples for a sewage treatment plant
Nederlands: lees wat microbiologen zeggen over probiotica en prebiotica.
Rare earth elements: Check out europium complexes in euro notes, and other uses of europium, as well as of other rare earth elements.
Seismic engineering: VMB in Chile creates earthquake-proof buildings by using playfully elegant solutions provided by physics.
Spiritual: Here is some I Ching for scientists and Zen for scientists.
University whistleblowing: Kristin Shrader-Frechette's article Retaliation against whistleblowers (to do with a class action law suit against a university in Florida) is hosted by this web site.
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