Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Geotimes May 2004 Lisa Robert	Hijacking the Rio Grande: Aquifer Mining in an Arid River Basin A major dilemma for the modern Southwest: a choice between a future driven by rampant growth or by an obligation to hydrologic reality.
Geotimes May 2004 Naomi Lubick	Natural Boron Contamination in Mediterranean Groundwater Within the past few decades, the water quality in many of the coastal aquifers along the Mediterranean Sea has rapidly degraded.
Geotimes May 2004 Naomi Lubick	Outsourcing Geology Offshoring may have a few unexpected consequences for geoscientists, and the current debate is fueling community-wide discussion.
Geotimes May 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mineral-Making Microbes For the first time, researchers have found direct evidence that microbes can create templates for unique mineral growth. The discovery could inspire new avenues for materials research, as well as for the search for evidence of life on Earth and other planets.
Geotimes May 2004 Sara Pratt	Ocean Anoxia Researchers are using microfossils to date ocean anoxic events, or severe oxygen depletion in the ocean, back to 132 million years ago. The findings will open up several new avenues of inquiry including the impact of the global carbon cycle perturbation on the biosphere as a whole.
Geotimes May 2004 Naomi Lubick	Geology Cut in Missouri Southeast Missouri State University in Springfield cut its geosciences degree, along with its geography and sociology degrees, last fall because of budget issues.
Geotimes May 2004 Sara Pratt	Ice in the Greenhouse? The greenhouse world of the Late Cretaceous, long thought to be ice-free, may have been chillier than previously predicted.
Geotimes May 2004 Swarzenski & Campbell	Tracking Contaminants Down the Mississippi The U.S. Geological Survey is working with scientists from various universities and state agencies to investigate the historic downstream delivery of sediment-associated contaminants into the Gulf of Mexico.
Geotimes May 2004 Craig Schiffries	Closing the Gap Between Water Science and Water Policy The urgent need to close the gap between water science and water policy dominated the 4th National Conference on Science Policy and the Environment, which explored science-based strategies for achieving water sustainability.
Geotimes May 2004 Holmes & O'Connell	What Does It Take to Get Tenure? Data from the National Science Foundation and the American Geological Institute indicate that women geoscientists remain underrepresented at all levels in academia.
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