There is so much great stuff within Gplates. Below is an interactive globe of seafloor spreading rates. Pinks and blues show 0-40 mm a year through to 200 mm a year for deep reds.“The age of the ocean floor is one of the fundamental data sets for understanding plate tectonic processes. We have generated an... Continue Reading →

NASA Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) maps.“NASA’s EMIT produced its first global maps of hematite, goethite, and kaolinite in Earth’s dry regions using data from the year ending November 2023. The mission collected billions of measurements of the three minerals and seven others that may affect climate when lofted into the air as... Continue Reading →

The free webinar I gave on Geoscience and Large Language Models was recorded and is now online. We had over 300 people register worldwide, some great questions. The purpose was to raise awareness in this area and stimulate ideas and questions within the international earth science community.I gave examples covering research and academia, mining, geohazards,... Continue Reading →

More Open access geological data. The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) map viewer includes bathymetry, geological, biological, mineral and chemical data."In collaboration with over 120 partner organizations and stakeholders, EMODnet aggregates data into Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) pan-European data layers, with data and accompanying metadata harmonized according to EU e.g., INSPIRE... Continue Reading →

I’m giving a free webinar on Friday on Language Models in Geoscience. Covering different ways one can apply LLMs to geoscience content, including some of the benefits and some of the risks.I include examples from academia, mining, oil & gas, hydrogeology, geohazards and carbon capture.It’s a relatively non-technical 25min session based on previous RGU university... Continue Reading →

Open-access European geological data from the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI) Map viewer and Data search. A collaborative initiative aimed at facilitating the sharing, integration, and accessibility of geological information across Europe. It serves as a comprehensive platform that brings together geological data from various sources, including national geological surveys, research institutions, and other geological... Continue Reading →

Rich global open-access Geoscience Data from the OpenGeoHub. OpenLandMap provides access to global environmental layers focused on the land surface.OpenLandMap are Open Land Data services providing access to spatial layers covering global land mass (at spatial resolutions of 1-km, 250-m, 100-m, 30-m or finer) hosted by the OpenGeoHub foundation, GILAB and collaborators.It aims at becoming an OpenStreetMap-type... Continue Reading →