Remembering peak day two years ago now

Kilimanjaro with Sam Howell

How to Cook With...Lava

Really have to appreciate responsible yet opportunisitic grown ups having fun at the grill!

 “That was the best steak I ever had,” Bompas says. “And I’m a chef and I’ve written five cookbooks. My dream is to one day own a chain of lava-based restaurants.”

Read about it here:

http://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/article/lava-cooking

Livermore develops the world's deepest ERT imaging system for CO2 sequestration

Another cool development.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has posted images from the world's deepest Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) system. It is used to develop time-lapse images of the injection of CO2 at depths over 10,000 feet in an oil and gas field in Cranfield, Miss. Be sure to watch the movie.

https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2013/Jun/NR-13-06-06.html

Indiana Water Resources Association Symposium

Xenon Geosciences will present "Groundwater Resource Exploration: A review of geological and geophysical methods and case studies" at the Indiana Water Resources Symposium in June.

Score one for old school geologists

The Wall Street Journal today has a cover story about the value of "old school" geology, which apparently means getting out to the field and looking at rocks. Jolly good. But I wish they would do away with the divining rods...

Old-Timers Can Be Worth Their Weight in Gold

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...

Senior geologists prowl ant hills, and boast other quirky ways to strike riches in mining.