Happy New Year! Welcome to January. Our first month features Jupiter’s closest approach for the year, and plenty of bright stars to view. Nights will be cold and mostly cloudy, but step outside when skies clear for a stunning view, even if it is a short one!
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WHITE SALMON — Fire is a familiar foe in the Columbia River Gorge — a devastating, uncompromising force that threatens homes, families and wildlife year in and year out. But for Lloyd DeKay, retired geologist turned wood bowl turning extraordinaire, it presents a unique and affecting artistic opportunity: to find beauty amidst the rubble.
Welcome to November! One of our cloudier months, and certainly not one with a lot of clear skies. However, when the clouds do clear, early sunsets mean the ability to view the skies earlier in the evening. Get out when you can!
THE GORGE — Have you always wondered about the unusual rock formations of the Gorge? Here’s your chance to explore “deep time” with a professi…
Welcome to October, the first full month of Autumn. Nights grow significantly longer this month. By the end of October, sunset comes before 6 p.m.! Earlier darkness makes for good evening stargazing, when skies are clear. Nights are colder, but not as frigid as in winter.
WASCO CO. — Stopping long-term, deep declines in groundwater in the Fifteenmile watershed is the goal of a study by Oregon’s Water Resources D…
Undoubtedly there is some form of organic life on the planet Mars, in the opinion of A. E. Douglass, vice-president of the American MEterologi…
HOOD RIVER — Sense of Place continues its 15th anniversary season with Geology Alive: Understanding Geologic Hazards in the Gorge, a presentation with geologist Dr. Richard “Dick” Iverson, Scientist Emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Cascades Volcano Observatory.
THE GORGE — In the last decade, several previously-unknown native plants were described for science from the Columbia Gorge and nearby regions.
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Today’s rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found through a detailed chemical analysis of ancient Antarctic ice.
