[Update: Here it is! Go read.]

A couple weeks back I started thinking about putting together a blog carnival devoted to the deserts of the world. A blog carnival, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, is a recurring event in which bloggers submit posts for inclusion in a big list of posts, often but not always centered on a particular theme. A good example is the Tangled Bank, a very popular blog carnival devoted to the sciences launched by PZ a few years back. Before I went anywhere with the idea, I had to make sure I couldn’t find someone already doing it. I’ve looked and I haven’t found anyone already doing it. So I’m launching one.

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.

So 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. Retweet and email and link from Facebook and send telegrams. Thanks!

1. 
   Dave 2009 01 08 at 9:20:38 pm

   Chris, I’m glad you’re going ahead with it. You might want to let the folks at the Nature Blog Network know. Their blog tries to report on all nature blog carnival posts and deadlines. http://natureblognetwork.com/blog/

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   Larry Hogue 2009 01 09 at 11:07:18 am

   Chris, thanks for doing this. I’ll look through my links and send some your way, as well as a submission from DesertBlog.

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   scott hohl 2009 01 12 at 2:25:32 am

   Chris, I am looking forward to it.  I moved to Phoenix over twenty years ago from New York and my family still can’t figure out why. I try sending them Edward Abbey books and cheesy postcards with images of roadrunners, but to no avail. Hopefully this carnival will finally portray the desert in a way that will make them understand.

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   Bill Parker 2009 01 22 at 11:00:29 pm

   Chris,

   Thanks for the invitation.  Here is the url for my post.  I do not know how to link it here.

   http://chinleana.blogspot.com/2009/01/revised-chinle-stratigraphy-of-chama.html

   Bill

5. 
   Claudia Luthi 2009 01 24 at 6:36:58 pm

   Hi Chris, stumbled into this and it appealed to me right away… thought to link the series of desert posts in my old blog (in spanish thouhg, but the important part are the photos)

   http://imagenesprestadas.blogspot.com/search/label/desierto

   Best regards, Claudia

6. 
   Bob Baran 2009 01 24 at 10:26:58 pm

   Chris your BLOG is awesome. My site is dedicated to the Anza Borrego Desert and I put a lot of anti-Sunrise Powerlink content in there.
   Larry Hogue told me about your site and I think it is great.

   Best,
   Bob Baran

7. 
   Silver Fox 2009 01 25 at 2:47:17 pm

   Chris, I have a series of fairly recent posts about the Fisher Towers area on the Colorado Plateau - you might consider any one of these, and I may post something more in the next couple days. I will also have some photos from there with an Edward Abbey quote up on Jan. 29th and can link that here when it comes up. Thanks.

8. 
   Pica 2009 01 26 at 11:59:25 am

   So if we’re predicted to become a desert within 50 years can we play?

9. 
   Caroline at Coastcard 2009 01 26 at 4:32:54 pm

   Take a look at my husband’s desert picture and listen to his desert poem, a tribute to Edward Thomas.

10. 
    Caroline at Coastcard 2009 01 26 at 4:37:37 pm

    <http://carolineatcoastcardlandlit.blogspot.com/2009/01/postcard-12-gloucestershire-in-negev.html>

    Sorry - first attempt failed to catch the livelink. Take a look at the desert podcast (see above).

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    Caroline at Coastcard 2009 01 26 at 4:49:24 pm

    Thank you!

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    Silver Fox 2009 01 29 at 2:47:03 pm

    The link to my short photo post for Ed Abbey’s birthday.

13. 
    Geology Happens 2009 01 31 at 10:58:54 pm

    Another desert page