Hard at work
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Friday, January 27, 2017
Halfway Day!
The Halfway Bandit strikes again! We had to figure out the legend, do the dance, sing the song, and draw him half pictures to get our stuff back.
Friday, January 13, 2017
Monday, January 9, 2017
Erosion, Iceland, and Time Travel
The geologists of Lab 204 went back in time this week to help some of our colleagues in Iceland with a mystery they are facing. Or, more correctly, an issue they faced back in November. Well, November 1963...
In the early morning hours of November 14, 1963, the crew of a fishing boat in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago saw smoke on the horizon. They moved closer, thinking another vessel was on fire. What they found instead was a volcano, forming a new island in the chain. Learn a little more about this new island, Surtsey, here.
We were invited to travel to this place and time by our colleague Dr. Sigurdur Thorarinsson. He wanted us to help them figure out if this new island would last very long. We tested three kinds of coastlines to make our assessment: rock, sand, and ash.
Based on our testing, we concluded that an ash coast will erode very quickly, a sandy coast at a moderate rate, and a rocky coast very slowly.
In the early morning hours of November 14, 1963, the crew of a fishing boat in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago saw smoke on the horizon. They moved closer, thinking another vessel was on fire. What they found instead was a volcano, forming a new island in the chain. Learn a little more about this new island, Surtsey, here.
We were invited to travel to this place and time by our colleague Dr. Sigurdur Thorarinsson. He wanted us to help them figure out if this new island would last very long. We tested three kinds of coastlines to make our assessment: rock, sand, and ash.
Testing Coastlines from Stephen MacLellan on Vimeo.
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