X-Nico

unusual facts about Earth Sciences



Healy Trough

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2004) after Terry R. Healy, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, who, with John Shaw, published observations on the formation of the Labyrinth following a visit in the 1975-76 season.


see also

Alan Morgan

Alan V. Morgan, professor in earth sciences at the University of Waterloo, winner of the E. R. Ward Neale Medal

Anthony Fiorillo

Anthony R. Fiorillo is Curator of Earth Sciences at the Perot Museum of Nature & Science.

Branches of science

Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth sciences) is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth.

Earth sciences graphics software

Earth sciences graphics software includes the capability to read specialized data formats such as netCDF, HDR and GRIB.

Gerald Dickens

Gerald R. Dickens, professor of earth sciences at Rice University, Houston, Texas

Gerard V. Middleton

He is an emeritus professor in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University.

Insu

Institut national des sciences de l'univers (National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy) of the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Jules Desnoyers

Parts of his collection of rare books in the earth sciences was bought by the United States Geological Survey Library at an auction in 1885.

Omo Kibish Formation

"It pushes back the beginning of anatomically modern humans", says geologist Frank Brown, a co-author of the study and dean of the University of Utah's College of Mines and Earth Sciences.

Timothy Pauketat

After graduating from SIU with B.S. in Anthropology and Earth Sciences, he gained further field experience as a staff archaeologist with a cultural resource management firm, The Center for American Archaeology, at Kampsville, Illinois and as an assistant curator and research assistant for SIU-Carbondale from 1983-1984.

University College Utrecht

Newton houses the Sciences Department which covers Cognitive Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences.