Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Forest, Webster & Reilly	Narrowing uncertainty in global climate change Unknowns hamper the initiation of climate-mitigation policies.
Geotimes August 2004 Larry Meinert	Understanding the Mysteries of the Grape For 30 years, this petroleum geologist has followed his curiosity about Earth to an unlikely spot: winemaking.
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick	Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	The Missing Methane Link Researchers working in Azerbaijan have quantified one of the missing methane emitters -- mud volcanoes.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	Soils Influenced Hawaiian Chiefdoms After fleshing out the basics of Hawaii's agricultural history, scientists now believe the reason certain crops were only cultivated in select areas was due to the diversity in the soils, which may also have led to the rise of powerful chiefdoms.
Geotimes August 2004 Sara Pratt	Burrowing K/T Survivors When it comes to the mass extinction that marked the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary 65 million years ago, what it all came down to, researchers say, is that only those who hid had a chance to survive.
Geotimes August 2004 Sara Pratt	Pressure Shifts in Yellowstone The 2002 rupture of Alaska's Denali fault triggered more than 250 smaller-magnitude quakes, altering the eruption behavior of many of the park's famed geysers.
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick	New Water Model for Southwest According to a new model by a researcher working in the New Mexico water basin, the seven-year drought that affected the area in the 1950s may finally be making its way into the Rio Grande.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	Fossil Victory in Alabama After nearly four years of battles over reclamation of a fossil-rich, former coal mining site, Rep. Robert Aderholt announced that the Union Chapel site would be turned over the the state for preservation.
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick	New Explanations for Western Drought Arizona Wildfires Four separate fires raged across Arizona at the end of June and the beginning of July. The potential for fires across the West this summer was normal to above normal, exacerbated by the region's ongoing drought.
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