Environment & Geology

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Geotimes July 2005 Sara Pratt	The Heart of a Landslide The Heart Mountain fault, a break between dolomite and volcanic rocks at Jim Creek, Wyo., is the site of the largest known terrestrial rockslide. Scientists now say that a cushion of gas buoyed the rock slab, enabling it to quickly travel down a relatively gentle slope.
Geotimes July 2005 Sara Pratt	Soaking in Extra Sun The amount of sunlight Earth's surface is absorbing has been increasing since the early 1990s, reversing the previous 30-year trend of "global dimming," during which surface sunlight diminished by about 5%.
Geotimes July 2005 Hirsch et al.	Peaking of World Oil Production: Is the Wolf Near? We are finding less and less oil in spite of vigorous efforts, suggesting that nature may not have much more to provide. As such, many credible analysts have recently become much more pessimistic about the possibility of finding the huge new reserves needed to meet growing world demand.
Geotimes July 2005 Naomi Lubick	Marcia McNutt: Oceangoing Geophysicist Marcia McNutt, president of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for her scientific contributions to geophysics and understanding Earth's crust.
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton	Brazil's Other Forest Still brimming with biological diversity, the Atlantic Forest needs allies.
Geotimes June 2005 Callan Bentley	Geology's Maine event Travelers to Maine will find much of interest to a geologist
HBS Working Knowledge June 20, 2005 Matthew Mulcahy	Hurricane Season in the Colonies Although western Europe occasionally experienced storms of great intensity, hurricanes were an entirely new phenomenon for colonists in the seventeenth century.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Ben Ames	Weather Forecasters Turn to High Technology From warfighting to civilian airline schedules, weather controls our lives. The modern meteorologist builds forecasting models on powerful computers, and pulls data from radars, satellites, and a global network of sensors deployed on airplanes, weather balloons, and ocean buoys.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	NOAA and NASA Begin Science Experiment With UAVs The UAV Flight Demonstration Project, using GA-ASI's Altair remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), is the first time NOAA has funded a UAV Earth science demonstration mission.
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick	California Earthquake Roundup Several significant earthquakes have struck California this week, ranging from 4.9 to 7.2 in magnitude, with two off the coast of Northern California and two in the Los Angeles basin. Scientists say that they are mostly unrelated.
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