Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Geotimes August 2003 Jan Childress	Kathryn Sullivan: It's about the journey Kathryn Sullivan has the explorer's hunger to be where the action is -- to see for herself what few others are able or would dare to experience. Her extraordinary career as a deep-sea researcher and astronaut led the National Science Board to present her with its Public Service Award.
Geotimes August 2003 William E. Brooks	Mineral Resources of Peru's Ancient Societies The success of at least a half-dozen pre-Columbian societies dating back 3,000 years and subsequent Spanish colonization in the 1400s has rested on the effective use of northern Peru's abundant resources.
Geotimes August 2003 Meghan F. Cronin	Review: Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer Enter Kathy Crane and her autobiography Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer, published in February. If you think Tibet is exotic, try pictures from places 2,500 meters below the ocean surface.
Outside August 2003 Patrick Symmes	River Impossible Everybody loves the Klamath. Everybody wants a piece of it. And they're willing to go to war to get it.
Outside August 2003 Peter Heller	Good Old Boy Gone Good He grew up poaching alligators, he sells Cadillacs, and his friends run oil companies. But saving the bayous of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin is Harold Schoeffler's number-one deal.
Outside August 2003 Misty Blakesley	Ecotourism Adventure Travel - Water in the Balance Water issues chronically become water wars. Here are some collisions in progress--from bang-ups over how to divide spoils to clashes over big cleanups--that need to be resolved in the years ahead.
Geotimes July 2003 Tim Palucka	Lightning implicated in ozone over Africa About five years ago, atmospheric scientists studying ozone concentrations over equatorial Africa and the southern hemisphere of the tropical Atlantic came across a puzzling situation. Unexpectedly high levels of ozone in southern Africa were finally explained by an overlooked phenomenon: lightning.
Wired August 2003 Josh McHugh	The Lost City of Venice For centuries, St. Mark's Square has been slowly slipping closer to Atlantis. Here's how a massive system of floodgates could turn the tide.
Geotimes July 2003 Greg Peterson	Cooling Mali's volcanism Geologists have recently found data to overturn the long-held belief that active volcanism was to blame for underground fires in Mali and substantially reduce the calculated risk for the region. The authors found the spontaneous combustion of buried peat layers, not magma.
CIO July 15, 2003 Robert McMillan	IBM on the Weather Desk It turns out that you can outsource the weather. The National Weather Service (NWS) last month signed a nine-year, $224 million pact with IBM to perform weather-modeling calculations at a hosted IBM facility.
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