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Geotimes September 2005 Sara Pratt |
Shrinking and Growing Arctic Lakes Now, in the latest addition to the growing body of evidence that global warming is significantly affecting the Arctic, two recent studies suggest that thawing permafrost is the cause of two seemingly contradictory observations -- both rapidly growing and rapidly shrinking lakes. |
Geotimes September 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Seabird Guano Changes the Arctic Seabirds in the Arctic act as "funnels," concentrating toxic chemical compounds collected from elsewhere and carried in their excretions into "hot spots" in terrestrial Arctic ecosystems, on land and in freshwater lakes. |
Geotimes September 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Paul Bierman: New Landscapes for Teaching This Distinguished Teaching Scholar award recipient uses the landscape images available through his the Landscape Change Program to get students of all ages excited about the local Vermont geology. |
CIO September 1, 2005 Allan Holmes |
What's Shakin'? A service launched by the U.S. Geological Survey provides companies with real-time earthquake data that they can use to make disaster recovery decisions more quickly and corral the costs of future earthquake damage. |
Geotimes August 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Hurricane Katrina Hits Hard One of the largest hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast region since Hurricane Camille in 1969, Hurricane Katrina left a trail of devastation behind it as it touched down in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. |
Science News August 27, 2005 |
Sea Monitors Developed by researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, SeaMaven is a new Web portal that gives students access to data collected from naval platforms 60 miles off the coast of Georgia. |
Scientific American August 22, 2005 Rebecca Renner |
Mapping Mercury The existence of mercury hot spots is still under debate and is complicating government regulations. |
National Defense September 2005 |
Meteorological Systems Bolsters Artillery Fire The Army is purchasing a next-generation, upper atmospheric measuring system that delivers data three times faster than existing systems and expands the range of field by 200%. |
Geotimes August 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Earthquake Shakes Japanese Coast The shaking originated 52.7 kilometers below sea level, off the eastern Japanese coast, about 95 kilometers east of Honshu and 350 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. |
Geotimes August 2005 Edward Monroe |
Stone Sleuthing in Rousse, Bulgaria The local building blocks of Rousse, which is swiftly becoming a hot tourist spot, come from the Roussenska Formation, which consists of limestone formed in a shallow sea during the early Mesozoic Era, approximately 100 million years ago. |
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