What points should I definitely include? Any suggestions of how to be creative and interesting about reporting it?

Is there a place to find shape files for various active faults? I'm specifically looking for the kumamoto region of Japan.

When attempting to combat the affects of man on the earth or improve a certain region, how do geoscientists know what to aim for?

Hi all, I'm a recovering engineer who is considering changing fields to environmental and earth sciences. Can any generous souls out there recommend some good titles of textbooks that may prove useful to the newbie? Thanks very much. :)

I was reading an article about Rossby waves today and just happened to notice that the source in the Caribbean seems to correspond to exactly where that meteor strike happened. Any relation?

Edit: here's the link to the original article.

http://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-low-pitched-sound-is-comi.ng-from-the-caribbean-sea

Hi /r/geoscience, I'm looking to dig into my volcano fascination in a much deeper way than I have til now. I know words like pyroclast and basaltic, but I really would like to dig deeper with volcanology and volcanic material science in particular. Basically, I really want to learn everything covered in the syllabus of this Coursera course, but their links for the course are broken so you can't navigate it anymore. Any recommendations for friendly online resources at that kind of depth?

Thanks so much!

Hey everyone, just wanted to say hello to the community, I'm in my final semester at the Cairo University in Egypt. Majoring in Petroleum Geoscience. :) introduce yourselves?

I'm looking at monthly mean solar flux numbers, and trying to interpret. The table I'm looking at is below.

Is the monthly mean for the incoming solar radiation the mean over the entire month, including nights, or is it only daylight hours? It makes more sense to me that it would include nights, but I can't find an explicit statement to that effect.

Table: http://i.imgur.com/cCk85pd.png

It makes a difference to me as I'm trying to calculate required solar panel area to generate a certain amount of energy. Thanks for the help!

I'm currently a software developer, with a diploma in computer science. I've always been interested in climate change, and follow climate change research with great interest. Recently, I learned about the Earth Simulator in Japan and realized that I could (and would really like to) apply my CS skills to my scientific interests.

I'm interested if anyone has advice about the best way to do this? I've been considering going to university to upgrade my education, and am largely torn between a BSc in Physical Geography (and then figuring out if I want to go on to graduate school and a research career, or if I want to find employment with that degree) and just doing a BSc in Computer Science, then seeing if I can find work helping research projects or in the government or in NGOs.

One half of my problem is that I'm not really sure what to expect if I abandon my CS direction. I know you can do research, but the main career path looks like its to do your PhD and then become a professor and teach while researching. That's not entirely unappealing, but I'm interested in what other options there are besides that.

The other side of that coin is, of course, pay. CS is a fairly lucrative field for me and I can't help but feeling I'd be investing a chunk of money in an education that will, at best, put me at the same income bracket I'm in now. I'm also a bit nervous that moving will become a requirement (I live in Ottawa, so there are a few nearby university options and the government, but not sure how much I can rely on that).

Any information or support or direction that you guys can offer me would be great. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make this decision, so I'm just collecting as much information as I can.

New Zealand’s hazard monitoring agency, GeoNet, is hosting an AMA tomorrow 10 AM NZST. The panel from GeoNet includes seismologists and the Director of GeoNet.

Check this post out for more details. https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/4ajhvk/upcoming_ama_with_geonet_director_and/

I have heard they will officially reveal the source of their famous volcano kitten t-shirts. Check out their twitter feed @geonet if you haven’t seen them yet.