Environment & Geology

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Geotimes August 2003 Megan Sever	Climate change report reexamined One of the more controversial topics of the Bush administration's revised strategic plan for climate change research is the ongoing debate of how anthropogenic factors factor into global climate change. Discussion at a meeting this week between government scientists and the NAS proved no different.
Geotimes August 2003 Lisa A. Rossbacher	Is there a doctor in the house? Geoscientists can help benefit public health. A lot. But if we wait to be asked, we could wait a very long time.
Geotimes August 2003 Kyle Blasch	Using Real-time Data for Public Outreach and Safety While the USGS has been collecting stream flow data in Sabino Canyon for almost a century for use in flood forecasting and warning networks, the data have been largely inaccessible by the public, until now. Now USGS scientists are looking for more ways to share their data with the community.
Geotimes August 2003 Tim Palucka	Looking for life in the Atacama Desert A so-called "terrestrial astrobiology" venture is probing the hyper-arid Atacama Desert in Chile to test the limits of life on Earth and to develop instrumentation to search for life on Mars.
Geotimes August 2003 Naomi Lubick	Fast earthquakes break speed limit Some earthquakes may move faster than seismologists once thought possible. A new study published in the Aug. 8 Science shows the most convincing data yet that a large earthquake can travel down a fault at velocities that surpass theoretical limits.
Science News August 16, 2003 Sid Perkins	Fluid Security -- Overcoming Water Shortfalls in the 21st Century Despite technological innovations and improved farming practices that have made agriculture less water intensive, computer models suggest that some nations' water supply and therefore food production won't keep up with demand.
Geotimes August 2003 Tim Palucka	Robot maps coal mine in 3-D In July 2002, the Quecreek mine accident in Pennsylvania revealed the deficiencies of outdated 2-D mine maps. If a new 3-D mapping robot now deployed emerges at the other end of a Pennsylvania coal mine, it will be a new era for mapping the underground world.
Geotimes August 2003 Megan Sever	Greek Islands blasted with strong quakes Around 8:15 a.m. local time, the Greek island Lefkada began shaking and continued all day, with at least five earthquakes registering between magnitudes 4.3 and 6.3 on the Richter scale.
Geotimes August 2003 Megan Sever	The Hawaiian hotspot debate: an update Most geologists have long thought that the Hawaiian Islands formed by the Pacific plate moving over a hotspot plume that sat fixed in the mantle; however, recent research suggests a moving hotspot could have been responsible. Still newer research has stirred a new round of debate.
Geotimes August 2003 Greg Peterson	Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests.
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