A year of detritus

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Yeah, I know…the year in review – how predictable for a New Year’s Eve blog post.

We’ve agreed as a society (for the most part) when the end/start of our trip around the Sun is. The end of the year is indeed a good time to look back and reflect on the happenin’s over the course of a year.

I started blogging toward the end of 2006, but it took a few months to get the hang of it and find my “voice”, for lack of a better term. So, I consider 2007 to really be the first year doing this. Here are some highlights, organized by month:

January

• the first Where on (Google)Earth? post
• story and links about National Park Service, creationism, and the Grand Canyon

February

• sarcasticity index
• wrap-up of posts for Just Science Week

March

• giant selenite crystals in Mexican mine
• photographic summary of Patagonian field work

April

• review of book ‘Thin Ice‘ by Mark Bowen
• inverted depositional features on Mars

May

• links to videos of flocking starlings
• avulsion dynamics and experimental sedimentation

June

• metablogging
• the media’s anthropomorphization of Pluto

July

• theoretical stratigraphy, part 1
• the final stretch

August

• nit-picking science reporting
• the initiation of The Accretionary Wedge geology carnival
• late August was when I did the name change (blog used to be “…Or Something”) and the move from Blogger to WordPress (so worth it)

September

• the stratigraphy of my blog
• everybody’s favorite kind of submarine fan … highstand fans

October

• earthquake blogging
• global warming from the perspective of petroleum geology

November

• seismic-reflection images of subduction zone
• geoblogger discussion about youngest exhumed pluton

December

• what I’ll be doing now that I’m done with the PhD
• some thoughts about science a couple days before my defense

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See you in 2008 … hope you all continue to read Clastic Detritus!

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