Thursday, June 3, 2010

We Don't Need No... Oh, Yes, You Do!

The Guardian has posted a list of science blogs it likes, and has issued a request for others. Guess which discipline is, as best I can tell, completely unrepresented? So herewith, I will compile a list of some of my favorite geoblogs, notably missing in The Guardian's list, in preparation for dumping them into the comments:

Allgeo feed:
https://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/18270218655642830115/label/allgeo

4.5 Billion Years of Wonder:
http://geo-geek.blogspot.com/

Accidental Remediation:
http://shortgeologist.blogspot.com/

Active Margin:
http://jrepka.blogspot.com/

Adventures in the World of Geology:
http://thrustacline.blogspot.com/

Ancient Shore:
http://ancientshore.com/

Sandbian
http://sandbian.wordpress.com/

Clastic Detritus
http://clasticdetritus.com/

Cryology and Company
http://rockglacier.blogspot.com/

Dave's Landslide Blog
http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/

DinoChick Blogs
http://paleochick.blogspot.com/

Ediacaran
http://ediacaran.blogspot.com/

Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)
http://epod.usra.edu/

Eruptions
http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/

Geologic Frothings
http://geofroth.org/

Geology Happens
http://geologyhappens.blogspot.com/

Geology Rocks
http://geologyrocks.tumblr.com/

Geotripper
http://geotripper.blogspot.com/

Good Schist
http://www.goodschist.com/

Highly Allochthonous
http://scienceblogs.com/highlyallochthonous/

Hindered Settling
http://zsylvester.blogspot.com/

Hypo-theses
http://hypocentral.com/blog/

In Terra Veritas
http://in-terra-veritas.blogspot.com/

Looking For Detatchment
http://highway8a.blogspot.com/

Lounge of the Lab Lemming
http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com/

Magma Cum Laude
http://magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/

NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

The Failed Rift
http://failedrift.wordpress.com/

Mountain Beltway
http://mountainbeltway.wordpress.com/

Oakland Geology
http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/

Olelog
http://my.opera.com/nielsol/blog/

Pathological Geomorphology
http://geopathology.posterous.com/

Rapid Uplift
http://suvratk.blogspot.com/

Riparian Rap
http://lrrd.blogspot.com/

Ron Schott's Geology Home Companion
http://ron.outcrop.org/blog/

Ron Schott's Shared Items
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/HaysRockDoc

Sismordia
http://sismordia.blogspot.com/

Strange Maps
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

The Accretionary Wedge
http://theaccretionarywedge.wordpress.com/

The Ethical Paleontologist
http://www.ethicalpalaeontologist.com/

The Happy Scientist
http://thehappyscientistblog.blogspot.com/

The Lost Geologist
http://lostgeologist.blogspot.com/

The Musings of a Life-Long Scholar
http://a-life-long-scholar.blogspot.com/

The Volcanism Blog
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/

Watershed Hydrogeology
http://hydrogeo.wordpress.com/

Wooster Geologists
http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/

Yeehow Central
http://yeehowcentral.blogspot.com/

The answer to your question is yes, I do read pretty much everything that gets posted in that list, pretty much every day. That constitutes maybe 15-20% of the number of items I skim over each day, but most items I just glance at the headline, and maybe the first couple of sentences. The blogs above I generally read carefully. Of course, they're dealing with a topic that's important and interesting to me; your mileage may vary.

Followup:

LockwoodDeWitt LockwoodDeWitt

4 Jun 2010, 12:05AM

I see someone else pointed out Eruptions; the other great volcano blog is Vulcanism Blog. It strikes me that geology is badly unrepresented in most of the selections and suggestions, though, so I put together a list of the Geoblogs and Feeds I follow on a daily basis... it's a long list, but there are a great number of dedicated geobloggers.

1 comment:

Silver Fox said...

I just tweeted your post to @guardianscience, who was requesting lists of science blogs.