Arizona Geology

Ken Fergason, president of the Phoenix chapter of AEG forwarded this message from the USGS: The USGS has prepared updated draft versions of...

Arizona has a new Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) of 15% which means the state's regulated utilities have to get 15% of their electri...

George Davis let the UA virtual reality lab use rocks from his personal collection to demonstrate their capabilities. Move them around in ...

The headline in the Tucson Daily Star this morning practically yelled, Big central aquifer rises 25 feet But further reading disclosed th...

The lawsuit that many scientists believed would prohibit anyone but licensed surveyors and engineers from making a map (see my May 14 blog),...

Could today's brackish groundwater resources be the fresh water resources of tomorrow? If so, we have to be concerned about the geologi...

The American Geological Institute's "Image Bank" has over 6,600 geology images online (http://www.earthscienceworld.org/images...

The Arizona Republic reports that Dr. Jonathan Fink will take over as ASU's "chief of sustainability" and Director of the Glob...

The Phoenix PBS affiliate, KAET-TV, Channel 8, devoted half of last Wednesday night's edition of the "Horizon" program to eart...

Professor Karl Flessa is taking over as chair of the UA Geosciences Dept, one of the best in the nation (US News & World Report ranks th...

The Arizona Geological Survey released four maps today that comprise the first state-wide compilation of known and reported earth fissures. ...

The American Geological Institute reports: "The Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Nick Rahall(D-WV) introduced a broa...

NPR aired an excellent piece this morning on Flagstaff, Arizona geologist-pilot-physician-photographer Michael Collier - read it at http://w...

As recently as 2000, the price of the element tellurium averaged $3.82 pound, according to the USGS (http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs...

A lawsuit filed against the federal government by four trade associations could prohibit geologists, geographers, and many other professiona...

All but a about a dozen of the total 58 stations in the EarthScope ( http://www.earthscope.org ) USArray Transportable Array (TA) of broadba...

The FBI investigation into a land deal involving Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi could affect the Resolution copper mine and water resources ...

Scientists do a lousy job of communicating to non-scientists. That's one reason science and scientists are being effectively beaten up ...

My colleague Vince Matthews, State Geologist of Colorado, is talking around the country about the demand for natural resources by China , In...

The long-enduring debate over collecting fossils on federal lands is continuing. According to a report by the American Geological Inst...