Environment & Geology

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Geotimes July 2003 Robert Spoelhof	The Not-So-Retired Life At retirement, geologist Robert Spoelhof finally learns what he wants to be when he grows up.
Geotimes July 2003 Christina Reed	Peter Vail: The sedimentary time master Like many geologists in the oil industry during the 1960s, Peter Vail spent much of his time studying sedimentary rocks in the subsurface that were once part of ancient ocean basins for clues to their history, composition and relative ages.
Geotimes July 2003 Joyce A. Ober	Mineral Resource of the Month: Sulfur Information on sulfur, global production of which minimizes the environmental effects of oil and natural gas production.
Geotimes July 2003 Allen Glazner	Igneous Petrology Much effort in igneous petrology over the past year centered on using microanalytical methods to study big problems. Ever-improving analytical techniques are allowing precise measurement of elemental abundances and isotopic ratios on ever-smaller phases in rocks.
Science News June 28, 2003 Ben Harder	McDonald's Cutback in Antibiotics Use Could Reduce Drug-Resistant Bacteria The fast-food chain McDonald's announced on June 19 that it will stop its farms under contract from feeding chicken, cattle, and pigs certain antibiotics intended to accelerate the animals' growth. That step might slow or reverse the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can infect people.
Science News June 21, 2003 Ivars Peterson	Prime-Time Cicadas The fact that periodical cicadas emerge after a prime number of years could be just a coincidence. Or it might reflect some sort of evolutionary pressure that leads to prime-number cycles.
Geotimes June 2003	European Geoconservation Now 12 parks strong, the European Geoparks Network spans Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Germany, with scenes ranging from petrified forest to coastal cliff. Local parks have garnered public support.
Geotimes June 2003 Peter Doyle	The British Framework for Geoconservation Geoconservation, sometimes called Earth heritage conservation, is a relatively new concept. It means conserving Earth's geological and geomorphological features for the same reasons that habitats are conserved, namely that they have intrinsic value in their own right.
Geotimes June 2003 Greg Peterson	Models of Iraq's toxic plume under fire Congressional auditors announced that the atmospheric dispersion models used to estimate the path a toxic plume followed after a 1991 bombing of Iraqi chemical warhead stockpiles were flawed and may have greatly underestimated the number of soldiers exposed to the chemicals.
Outside June 2003 Douglas Gantenbein	We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods.
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