video: Sedimentray rocks introduction

I recommend you follow this link to my actual youtube page (http://www.youtube.com/user/MisterGazda) and then watch full screen and in HD. Enjoy.

Video: Igneous Rocks intro

Video: TED conference - deep ocean organisms

HONORS HW: Alaska Glacial Rebound reading

Morgan DeBoer opened a nine-hole golf course, above, at the mouth of Glacier Bay in 1998 on land that did not exist when his family settled in the area 50 years ago.

Glaciers around Juneau are receding 30 feet or more each year.

Read the article below for Tuesday 5/26. It discusses an interesting - and perhaps surprising - consequence of global warming.



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/science/earth/18juneau.html?_r=1&em

HONORS HW: watch this talk for Wed 4/8

The link below is to a talk given by physicist David Deutsch. It is titled What is our place in the cosmos? We aren't on this chapter yet, but we'll be getting to it soon.

Assignment: Watch the first 7 minutes of this talk. The way he presents the utterly HUGE scale of the universe is very cool.

Enjoy.


http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_deutsch_on_our_place_in_the_cosmos.html

reading: Montauk Lighthouse due Wed 3/4

For Wed 3/4 you need to read 2 articles: this one on the lighthouse in Montauk, NY and the article in the post below this one about the Grand Canyon.

Montauk Point Lighthouse on the tip of Long Island, NY - built 1796

map of the area - notice where it is located on Long Island

Montauk Lighthouse as viewed from the Atlantic

Montauk Lighthouse erosion:
New York Times
print date: Nov 21, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/science/earth/21comm.html?scp=3&sq=montaul%20lighthouse&st=cse

Grand Canyon controlled flood: due Wed 3/4

Read this article about controlled flooding of the Grand canyon by Wed 3/4. The link is below.

Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona

Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona

At the Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Ariz., water jetted into the Colorado River on Wednesday to benefit fish in the Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon controlled flood article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/us/06canyon.html?scp=2&sq=grand+canyon&st=nyt