Environment & Geology

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Geotimes April 2003 Applegate & Baker	Geosciences Again Look to Congress to Restore Cuts And we're off! The fiscal year 2004 appropriations process is underway, with one bright spot and several large challenges ahead for geoscientists.
Geotimes April 2003 Christina Reed	Watching The Core: A movie review Geotimes went to the movies with four geophysicists from the Carnegie Institution of Washington to see the new blockbuster movie The Core. With Hollywood blaming its newest apocalypse on Earth's core, we couldn't resist.
Geotimes April 2003 Kenneth R. Bradbury	A Circuitous Path: Protecting Groundwater in Wisconsin Groundwater follows a winding path -- and one much faster than previously thought -- to municipal wells in the city of Sturgeon Bay, and it may pick up contaminants along the way.
Reason April 2003 Jesse Walker	It's Not Easy Being Green Is there a legal definition of environmentalist? It sounds like a question for law students in their cups, but it actually entered a federal courtroom earlier this year.
Reason April 2003 Todd Seavey	The Killer Fog When green politics masquerades as environmental science
Geotimes April 2003 Gary E. Christenson	Life Along the Fault: Reducing Risk in Utah Large earthquakes do not occur often enough in Utah to "remind" people that they are living and building in earthquake country. This scenario presents a unique challenge for the state geological survey.
Geotimes April 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Seeing Chicxulub A new map of the Yucatan from NASA shows for the first time the 180-kilometer wide crater left behind after a giant impact that researchers believe killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Geotimes April 2003 Greg Peterson	El Nino's future While forecasters can now predict El Nino events up to a year before they reach their peak, the impacts of long-term climate change on El Nino remain difficult to pin down.
Geotimes April 2003 Christina Reed	The mighty, tiny larvae Understanding that marine larvae play a more active role in the ocean processes and have perhaps an evolutionary history of staying close to home provides impetus for shoreline communities to protect local habitats.
Geotimes April 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Mapping secure boundaries for data In deciding what geospatial information could pose harm to the country if made public, government agencies must think like terrorists.
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