It's that time of year where top-ten lists, reviews, and other wrap-ups of the past 12 months are everywhere. I'll join the party with this sampling of posts that I think capture my writing throughout 2010:
January-May
- Sand: The Neverending Story -- Q&A with author Michael Welland
- Anthropogenic Avulsion of the Huang He (Yellow River) Delta
- What Do You Think of the 'Anthropocene'? (the comment thread has a nice discussion worth revisiting)
- Geological Heroes: Marine Geologist Bill Normark
- Exporting Environmental Catastrophes
- Must We Capture and Store Carbon From Coal to Meet Emission-Reductions Targets? (article for EARTH Magazine)
June-August
- Gulf Oil Disaster: It's Everybody's Katrina
- Rapid Canyon Formation and Uniformitarianism
- Why I Blog (guest post at AGU's blog The Plainspoken Scientist)
- Using Sedimentation Rates to Infer Long-Term Global Climate Change
- Modern Agriculture a Major Control on Increased Rates of Dust Flux from Continent to Ocean
- The Evolving Role of the Geoscience Blogosphere
- The Importance of Studying the History of Sea-Level Change in the San Francisco Bay (post for QUEST Community Science Blog)
September
Clastic Detritus is Now on Wired Science! This post marked my move from 'indie' blogger status to a member of Wired Science's blogging network.
- The Nature of Time in the Geologic Record
- Does All Scientific Work Deserve Public Attention?
- Ocean Observatories: Marine Science Withouth the Boat
- Universality, Complexity, and Teeter-Totters
- The Difference Between 'Habitable' and 'Habitable Zone'
October-December
- Ghostly Image Reveals Ice Age Rivers
- Inverted Martian Topography
- San Francisco Bay Slowly Recovering from Gold Rush Miner's Devastating Legacy (post for QUEST Community Science Blog)
- Deep-Water Sand Dunes in the South China Sea
- The Rhythms of the El Niño-La Niña Climate Pattern (post for QUEST Community Science Blog)
- Warning: Scientific Jargon Ahead!
It's been a fun year. More to come in 2011!
