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kramsayer wrote a new post, Simple Math Gives Readers X-Ray Vision, on the site The Plainspoken Scientist 1 month, 2 weeks ago
By Mohi KumarAs a staff editor for Eos, I see all types of articles pass my desk, from those littered with the alphabet soup of undefined acronyms and the jargon best reserved for textbooks, to lovely pieces […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Diminished Arctic sea ice threatens communities in northern latitudes, on the site GeoSpace 1 month, 2 weeks ago
By Sarah Charley
Melting Arctic sea ice is threatening local communities and Arctic habitats, experts stressed at a congressional briefing on March 20. The American Geophysical Union co-hosted the briefing […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Warming could degrade U.S. Midwest farmlands while boosting African, Chinese harvests, on the site GeoSpace 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Rising global temperatures will concentrate arable land in southern Africa, northern China and the west coast of South America – but leave the United States’ Midwest desiccated, according to new […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Triple blow lowered arctic ozone in 2011 , on the site GeoSpace 2 months, 1 week ago
Guest author Maria-José Viñas is a science writer with NASA’s Earth Science News Team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
A combination of extreme cold temperatures, man-made chemicals and […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Detecting nuclear explosions – plus meteors, tsunamis, and more, on the site GeoSpace 2 months, 4 weeks ago
BOSTON — On 12 February, North Korea detonated a nuclear device beneath a remote mountain range – and scientists in Norway were able to pinpoint the blast’s location within hundreds of meters. Three days […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Remote Sensing and Planetary Processes: An Interview with Dr. Alex Hayes, on the site GeoSpace 2 months, 4 weeks ago
This post is the fifth of a series of profiles on planetary scientists by Mark Hilverda, geoscientist and web manager for AGU’s Planetary Sciences Section. A more complete version of this interview that […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Seeing the hand of climate change in weather extremes, on the site GeoSpace 3 months ago
BOSTON – Extreme weather events have been cropping up all around the globe recently, and one place that’s been really hit hard is Texas. The drought that slammed that state in 2011 has already caused $7.6 […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, As air columns collapse, glaciers tremble, on the site GeoSpace 5 months ago
One moment, a block of ice about the size of a 15-passenger van plummets from the edge of a melting glacier to the water below. Seconds later, seismic vibrations shake the glacier and surrounding rock. For […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Egg-shaped asteroids more likely to survive impact, on the site GeoSpace 5 months ago
Large asteroids typically hit Earth with enough force to vaporize the entire rock. One asteroid the size of San Francisco formed the 40-mile-wide Morokweng crater in South Africa – but puzzlingly, in 2006, […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Secret tsunamis of the South Pacific, on the site GeoSpace 5 months ago
The crumbling volcanic islands of the southern Pacific Ocean could be a major source of undocumented – and potentially dangerous – tsunamis.
When geologist James Goff from the University of New South Wales, […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, California’s faults have synchronized bursts of movement, on the site GeoSpace 5 months ago
Twenty years after the Loma Prieta earthquake, seismologists are still learning from the faults that zigzag across California. Now, new information on the movements of two of these faults suggests they are […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Cosmic ray muons watch for carbon leaks , on the site GeoSpace 5 months, 1 week ago
Out of sight, out of mind – that’s the essence of carbon sequestration, an emerging technology designed to fight climate change by packing liquefied carbon dioxide in underground rock formations.
But rocks […]
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kramsayer commented on the post, Heat Release From Eurasian Soils Amplifies Arctic Warming, on the site GeoSpace 5 months, 1 week ago
Sure, please just credit GeoSpace and the author, Laura Poppick. Thanks!
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Calculating the Cost of Erosion for Coastal Homeowners, on the site GeoSpace 5 months, 1 week ago
Erosion takes the “beach” out of beachfront property. And when the sand drifts away, so do the property values.
With climate change predictions that include rising sea levels and more intense storms, the […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Scientists put a new spin on waves, on the site GeoSpace 5 months, 1 week ago
Whirlpools created at the edges of breaking waves can influence how ocean nutrients – and pollution – get mixed about in the ocean.
Until now, this swirling has been a theory seen only in computer […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Aerial surveys make light work of snow-depth measurements, on the site GeoSpace 5 months, 1 week ago
Scientists have recently developed a technique for sharpening the accuracy of detailed tundra snow-depth maps critical to issues ranging from climate modeling to figuring out where to herd grazing […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Heat Release From Eurasian Soils Amplifies Arctic Warming, on the site GeoSpace 5 months, 1 week ago
Two of the strongest knobs on Earth’s thermostat sit in the Arctic: sea ice and permafrost. Both spur feedback loops that can ripple down to lower latitudes and alter global weather patterns. Melting sea […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Ground under ancient Chilean volcano is rising fast, on the site GeoSpace 5 months, 1 week ago
The Laguna del Maule volcanic field in the Chilean Andes Mountains lies in the heart of volcano country. The region is a well-known subduction zone, where the friction of one crustal plate sliding under […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Rocky “Bumps” Anchor Antarctic Glaciers , on the site GeoSpace 5 months, 1 week ago
When glaciers have rock to cling to, they hold on tight. Luckily for us, a ridge of rock lines the edge of an expansive Antarctic glacier that might otherwise – without the ridge – be rapidly retreating […]
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kramsayer wrote a new post, Shelter from the Snowball, on the site GeoSpace 5 months, 1 week ago
Bacteria dependent on light may have found refuge from encroaching glaciers in inland seas some 600 million years ago, when Earth was a giant ice ball.
The idea of an icy Earth, called a “Snowball Earth,” […]
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