Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Restricting Satellite Data Access A proposal to restrict access to high-resolution remote-sensing data has led to a bit of confusion.
Geotimes November 2004	Mount St. Helens Erupts in Activity Although earthquake activity leveled off early in October, scientists warn that eruptions of steam and ash are still likely in the coming weeks.
Geotimes November 2004 Megan Sever	Beneath the Bermuda Triangle Since at least the time of Shakespeare, people have been talking about the Bermuda Triangle, where an anomalously high number of ships and planes have reportedly gone missing.
Geotimes November 2004 Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr.	Geologic Mapping for the Future Current efforts to develop an integrated Global Earth Observation System of Systems are helping to launch a new voyage of scientific discovery.
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Ernie Mancini: Bridging Oil Research and Politics Ernie Mancini has combined both in his work as an educator and as Alabama's state geologist, in a career that has lasted some three decades.
Geotimes October 2004 Laura Stafford	Volcanic gas and early life Researchers have combined carbonyl sulfide with free amino acids in a reaction that created di-, tri- and tetra-peptides. The experiment was conducted under a variety of conditions meant to simulate Earth's early atmosphere.
Geotimes October 2004 Megan Sever	Deadly quakes shake Japan This weekend marks the deadliest spate of quakes in Japan since the 1995 Kobe quake, which killed more than 6,000 people.
Geotimes October 2004 John F. Shroder Jr.	Afghanistan Redux: Better Late Than Never Efforts by USGS to study the resources of Afghanistan that are necessary to help boost its economy have been far from straightforward since September 11, but at last are now under way.
Geotimes October 2004	Pedaling D.C.'s monuments A bicycle tour of the Mall in Washington, D.C. highlights the geologic history of the region... Oct. 10 to Oct. 16 is Earth Science Week, organized by the American Geological Institute...
Geotimes October 2004 Naomi Lubick	Dynamo in a Box Dan Lathrop is building a planet in his lab. If everything goes as planned, his 3-meter-tall metal sphere will self-start its very own dynamo, a process where heat and motion establish a magnetic field.
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