Carnival of the Arid #2, coming March 2
The first Carnival of the Arid was a huge success, with lots of wonderful material submitted.
So let’s do it again!
Here’s the description from the “charter”:
Submissions should have something to do with a desert somewhere in the world. (If you’re not sure whether your work is desert-related, check out this definition at Wikipedia, and if you’re still not sure, send it in anyway.) Submissions can be scientific in nature, or history, or travelog. Images are welcome, photographic or otherwise. Discussions of culture and politics are welcome if they’re desert-related. The one restriction, other than geographical, is that — at least when I’m compiling it — paeans to destroying the desert probably won’t make it. (Developers and ORVers take note.) Paeans to preserving or protecting the desert are fine, as are alerts of current pressing issues.
Participants in the first Carnival of the Arid are encouraged to join in again, and spread the word. For those of you on Twitter, the CotA has its own feed at twitter.com/AridCarnival. Follow, cut and paste, retweet.
I’m out of town the last weekend of February attending this conference, so while the deadline for submissions will be Saturday February 28, it’ll be easier on your compiler if you submit early. Many of you have likely written something appropriate already anyway!
If you’re wondering what’s the point of collecting a bunch of links to deserty blog posts, Mike over at Nature Blog Network has some answers for you in his posts “What is a blog carnival?” and ““Why should I submit to a blog carnival?”
So mark your calendars, desert rats! And spread the word. Submissions can be linked here in comments or emailed to me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). If you know of someone whose work might qualify, let them know, or let me know, or both.
Comments
Hi Chris—Silver Fox has very kindly pointed me here, and I’m pleased to submit this piece about the Andalucían desert of southern Spain.
This is where all those famous spaghetti westerns once were filmed, and while as a geographical and film location it might well seem a million miles from the Mojave Desert, perhaps the pressures on the natural environment aren’t that different after all.
Keep up the good work, and kind regards from london.
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