In 7 years of Viewpoints 9 challenges, this was by far the most difficult one for me to conceive of a piece for! I thought and thought on...

In viewing layers of sedimentary rock, geologists can gain knowledge about the environment at a specific point in time. In this quilt,...

Many of my earliest memories came rushing back as I thought about my response to the geography challenge. I was born in Japan, and I can...

Forests are destroyed due to anthropogenic factors and global warming. Originally forests can regulate the greenhouse effect, however,...

Human beings have short memories. But Earth's memory is very long. Geologists can find clues to Earth's past in sedimentary rocks. The...

A geologist friend of mine told me once that when geologists look at the features of the world around them - natural or man-made - they...

When I saw Sue's challenge, I remembered what I had heard before. “We all come from the ground and return to the ground” Since then I...

I understand where conservationists and environmentalists are coming from, but I've always found the idea of "we need to save the Earth"...

I can remember EXACTLY when my interest in geology was ignited. I was 8 years old when my mother's parents drove from Sutter Co,...

I wonder if fish will still be happy living in the polluted sea. Does the original pure ocean still exist? What does the ever changing...