Amelia Earhart Plane Wreckage Spotted in Sonar Image, Expert Suggests

This is the really cool stuff; the integration of technology, maps, exploration, success and failure...

"A team of historical sleuths believe they have found a clue to what happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart, claiming sonar may have picked up an image of her wrecked plane off an underwater cliff in the Pacific."

http://tighar.org/

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/05/amelia-earhart-plane-wreckage-spotted-in-sonar-image-expert-suggests/

Indiana Water Resources Association Symposium

Xenon Geosciences will present "Groundwater Resource Exploration: A review of geological and geophysical methods and case studies" at the Indiana Water Resources Symposium in June.

An asteroid fly-by to be streamed live to the internet. Impressed?

I do not know which amazes me more, that we live in an era where we can sit at home in a comfortable chair and watch a live fly-by of a distant asteroid on our wireless ipads, or that we accept this as nothing special. There are truly wonderful times.

Graphic depicts the trajectory of asteroid 2012 DA14 on Friday. In this view, we are looking down from above Earth's north pole. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

here is a link:

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/science-2/asteroid-flyby-online/#/0

Research shows that effective multi-tasking is a myth

Here is research that concludes that multitasking is not only an ethical problem, but can evolve into a legal problem as well. Written to address issues in the boardroom, but I believe it applies to all we do.

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/business/multi-tasking.html

Awesome! 2013 IGS calendar features LiDAR dataset of East Fork of the White River

The folks at the Indiana Geological Survey are always pushing forward. This year's calendar shows the relict and modern-day stream channels of the East Fork of the White River just south of the confluence of the Driftwood and Flatwood Rivers near Columbus, Indiana. Cartographers at the Indiana Geological Survey analyzed elevation data using geographic information system software, or GIS, to create the image. The data were acquired using an airborne laser with a technology called LiDAR—light detection and ranging. At the Indiana Geological Survey, LiDAR elevation and corresponding intensity data are a crucial component of our geologic mapping efforts. 

 see it at: http://igs.indiana.edu/bookstore/details.cfm?ItemID=2160&Pub_Num=CAL2013