Happy Estival (Midsummer) Solstice!
Today, June 20th, 2024 at 1:50pmPST is the Estival (Midsummer) Solstice, a single moment in time when the Sun reaches it's highest annual...
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Nicole Myers
Mar 265 min read
Earth Story: The Appalachians
The Appalachians are older than the Sierra Nevadas and the Rockies, but they are not the oldest mountain chain in North America. All the...
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Nicole Myers
Jan 55 min read
Earth Story: Disasters Create Our Beautiful Planet
It is not fun to experience a natural disaster. It is scary and overwhelming, intense & terrible. Yet the world we love would not exist...
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Nicole Myers
Dec 4, 20235 min read
Earth Story: Franciscan Complex of the California Coast Range
For those of you who live along the coast of Central and Northern California, you likely live in the California Coast Ranges and on top...
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Nicole Myers
Nov 8, 20236 min read
Earth Story: Gondwana
What was Gondwana? Gondwana was a huge megacontinent that formed as smaller landmasses squeezed together, long before life inhabited the...
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Nicole Myers
Sep 2, 20233 min read
Story of Earth: The Tethys Sea
Where is the Tethys Sea? I was lucky enough to spend time on one of the last vestiges of the Tethys Sea this summer as a heat wave baked...
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Nicole Myers
Aug 1, 20233 min read
Your Body is Your Earth Observing Instrument
How do you interact with the Earth? Humans have an intimate connection with the Earth, all plant and animal Earthlings do - we evolved to...
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Nicole Myers
Mar 4, 20235 min read
A Global Perspective of Climate Adaptation
Imagine, you are in a space ship. Below is a world with oceans and land, volcanic eruptions, swirling clouds, dust storms, and carpets of...
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Nicole Myers
Dec 11, 20225 min read
Earth: Volcanic Planet
There are ~1,350 potentially active volcanos on Earth. In 2022 people flocked to see the spectacle of volcanic eruptions in Iceland,...
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Nicole Myers
Jul 13, 20224 min read
The Evolution of Resourceful Homo sapiens
On Earth, an ecosystem has evolved that includes a wide variety of animals, plants, protists, fungi, bacteria, and Archaea. Earth life is...
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Nicole Myers
Jun 2, 20225 min read
Onset of the Anthropocene
For at least 50 years we have been living in the Anthropocene Epoch, and until recently all of us Anthropos (Greek for human beings) were...
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Nicole Myers
Mar 28, 20225 min read
The Perihelion, Seasons, & Climate on Earth
Why are temperatures cooler in the winter? The Sun feels more distant and fails to warm our skin, so many assume that the Sun is further...
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Nicole Myers
May 23, 20214 min read
The Experience of Time
Time is a mystery, and after this last year it seems more mysterious than ever. We exist in time, it is ongoing and seemingly changes...
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Nicole Myers
Mar 19, 20212 min read
Vernal Equinox 2021
The equinox is one of the oldest solar celebrations in human history. Some cultures have been celebrating the official start of Spring...
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Nicole Myers
Feb 16, 20215 min read
Focus: the intersection of science, time, yoga & nature
Focus is an experience of convergence, our attention trained on a single point of interest, the center of energetic expenditure. Focus is...
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Nicole Myers
Dec 5, 20203 min read
Change: the intersection of science, time, yoga & environment
How do you cope with environmental uncertainty and rapid change? You adapt, because every generation of your ancestors going back to the...
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Nicole Myers
Sep 21, 20201 min read
Happy Autumnal Equinox 2020
Today (Tuesday, September 22nd) is the first official day of autumn for the northern hemisphere. The word autumn simply indicates the...
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Nicole Myers
Sep 21, 20203 min read
The Timeline of a Pandemic
It feels like we are still just waiting for the pandemic to be over...but we should be preparing to live with this harsh reality for a...
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Nicole Myers
Sep 6, 20201 min read
Geostory: Iceland
Iceland is a volcano on steroids. Not only is it the highest peak of the longest mountain chain on Earth (the mid-Atlantic ridge), it is...
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Nicole Myers
Sep 6, 20203 min read
Go Bags & Breath:
The present is the key to the past and the path to the future…so we all need to be prepared for future natural disasters. Take time in...
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