Image from Google Earth
Several weeks ago an earth tremor rattled the house of HOORC Library Assistant Joseph Matshelo, among other Maun residents. Now data about the earthquake has been sent to us by Dr. A. Cichowicz of the South African Council for Geoscience, through Professor T.S. McCarthy of the University of the Witwatersrand Okavango Research Group. The earthquake of August 16th (20:21...
Love Earth , a popular site developed by the BBC, combines Google Earth with photographs, video and narrative to describe tracking of selected wildlife, including elephants in northern Botswana by the Elephants without Borders project.
Designed as a promotion for the BBC's film, Planet Earth, the site also has pages that describe how the film was...
Ecological literacy: educating our children for a sustainable world, edited by Micheal Stone and Zenobia Bralow from the Center for Ecoliteracy, points out that efforts to build sustainable communities cannot succeed unless future generations learn how to partner with natural systems to their mutual benefit; to become "ecologically literate." Reports and essays offer examples of place-based,...
The second edition of The mechanics of earthquakes and faulting by Christopher H. Scholz points out that understanding of earthquakes and faulting processes has developed significantly since publication of the first edition of this book in 1990. This revised edition explains the connection between fault and earthquake mechanics, and describes the central role of the rate-state friction laws in...
Photo from web site of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa Okavango natural history guide Richard Randall visited HOORC's library this week and alerted us to the upcoming total lunar eclipse that will be visible from southern Africa the night of March 3rd, 2007. You can find more information about the event on the site of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa. In HOORC's Library,...