by Ben | Feb 28, 2010 | Energy, Projects
Lately we have been rather bad about leaving the lights on when we leave for work. My apartment has a lot of switches that are in strange places, and it is rather easy to forget the lights on in the bathrooms and back closets. My solution for the problem was to grab...
by Ben | Feb 23, 2010 | Flooding, GIS, Photography, Science
This post is updated as information becomes available. Original Post Feb 12 2010 NOAA and the USGS have released an initial projection for spring flooding in the Devils Lake region....
by Ben | Feb 15, 2010 | Meteorology, Politics, Science
Normally I try to stay out of the Global Warming debate because I really don’t see it as a debate, but lately Fox New has really irritated me. Snow storms in no way represent the world as a whole. Are their newscasters really as stupid as the sound or is all...
by Ben | Dec 23, 2009 | Geology, GIS, Politics, Science
Most people are not familiar with Devils Lake, North Dakota so I will give you some background information. Devils Lake is the largest non-manmade lake in North Dakota. The lake is endorheic (a closed basin). In the late 1800s a ferry ran from Minnewaukan to Devils...
by Ben | Dec 22, 2009 | Geology, Science
I put together a Google Earth file with a few interesting things tagged. Click Here to Download the file.. Tagged Locations: Glacial Lake Agassiz Beaches: Beaches near the GF Air Base. Beaches basically account for all natural linear features running southeast to...
by Ben | Dec 21, 2009 | Geology, Science
Originally, this post was quite lengthy, but I have since decided that I was rather uninformed when I wrote it back in July. Currently, I work for an institution conducting CO2 Sequestration research, and I’m still not fully convinced that the technology will be...
