Environment & Geology

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Outside October 2003 Mark Schrope	Deep Transmissions Armed with a revolutionary new tracking device, cave divers map threats to Florida's main water source.
Geotimes October 2003 Megan Sever	Defined at last: El Nino and La Nina Scientists have been studying El Nino and the later-named La Nina for more than 100 years, but only now have they reached a consensus on defining the climatic events.
CIO October 1, 2003 Nancy Weil	On the West Nile Virus Trail Since April, the 17 inspectors of the Southern Ontario West Nile virus surveillance program have been collecting data (date, time, GPS coordinates for field sites, information about birds, mosquitoes and larvae) using a PDA application designed for the task.
Geotimes October 2003 Mohammad Al-Gailani	Assessing Iraq's Oil Potential Iraq is one of the most hydrocarbon-rich countries in the Middle East, and in the future, it could become one of the primary oil producers in the world.
Geotimes October 2003 Megan Sever	Mine reclamation threatens tracksite In a small corner of northwest Alabama, the most diverse and prolific Carboniferous tracksite known on this planet is in danger of being reburied.
Geotimes October 2003 Naomi Lubick	Fracas over Kansas pancake flap Kansas truly is flatter than a pancake, according to researchers from two other states who published their results in the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) in August. Their findings have raised some Kansans' hackles.
Geotimes October 2003 Sara Pratt	New model for glacial erosion Understanding what controls glacial erosion may have important implications for understanding glaciated mountain belts and modeling both ancient and current ice sheets.
Geotimes October 2003 Sara Pratt	Ancient glaciers near L.A. The small alpine glaciers that once existed 120 kilometers east of Los Angeles, Calif., were, according to a new study, present as recently as 5,000 years ago, a time when regions to the north had already become ice-free.
Geotimes October 2003 Naomi Lubick	Observing Earth The Earth Observation Summit held this summer inaugurated a collaborative research effort by more than 30 nations to do just that: observe Earth in order to study its global climate and how it changes, while learning more about how the planet's ocean, air and land systems interact.
Geotimes October 2003 Naomi Lubick	Water clues from martian carbonates For the first time, scientists have convincingly detected small yet possibly widespread amounts of carbonate minerals in the dust on Mars' surface. The findings provide new hints about water on Mars, as well as the history of the planet's atmosphere.
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