Environment & Geology

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Geotimes September 2004 Dan Byers	Budget Procrastination The author shares his own positive experience working on reauthorization of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program with Congressman Nick Smith.
Geotimes September 2004 Naomi Lubick	Lucy Jones: The Calm After the Quake Now a leading earthquake scientist, Lucy Jones is the voice of seismology for Southern California, and her new position as chair of the California Seismic Safety Commission has the potential to pump up the volume of her message.
Geotimes August 2004 Jay Chapman	Wide Open West For years, the oil and gas industry has complained about limited or restricted access to energy resources in the American West. A new investigative report, however, turns this argument on its head.
Geotimes August 2004 Susan Hough	California Wines: Well-Shaken and Stirred When wine country is also earthquake country, wineries take their lumps along with everyone and everything else.
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Vice Chief Tells Air Force Staff to `Fix the Weather' Although the Air Force has some of the most sophisticated weaponry ever made, it can't battle the weather. The idea is to get weather information instantly fed into command-and-control systems so planners can make decisions based on accurate up-to-dater data.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	Tahoe quakes: business as usual? Scientists say they have figured out what caused two major events that shook the Sierra Nevada region in recent months.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	The Quest for Better Wine Using Geophysics Wine's Deeper History Winemakers and scientists alike have known that what makes good wine is a confluence of factors, including topography, climate and soils, known as "terroir." But the character of a wine has a much deeper history than that: a geologic history.
Geotimes August 2004 Jay Chapman	Roving Oregon's Dunes Oregon Dunes is the largest coastal dune system in North America and visitors often see dune-buggies, rather than rovers, wandering the landscape that looks as alien as the scenes from Mars.
Geotimes August 2004 Gregory Jones	Making Wine in a Changing Climate History has shown that climate and wine are intricately linked. And many growing regions are either at or nearing their optimum climates for the varieties grown and wine styles produced.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	Best in show At this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a geoscience project won top honors, garnering international distinction and a $50,000 scholarship for the 17-year-old researcher, Sarah Langberg.
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