Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
... Fast-flowing ice streams, analogous to rivers, drain part of West Antarctica's ice sheet out to the floating Ross Ice Shelf, and hence to the sea. How permanent is this ice sheet, which is actually anchored below sea level? As part of a major, multi-year initiative, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet progr...Scientists Identify Retrovirus-Like Components In Corn Genome
... be inactive, allowing them to sit quietly and not drain energy from the host, he says. The result is that the mobile DNAs "hide" within the genome, where they can be passively transmitted to the next plant generation. "These 'selfish DNAs,' as they're sometimes called, can hitchhike on the host DNA replic...From The Home Front To The River Front, USGS Updates Water-Quality Information
...c River Basins, two of the largest watersheds that drain into Chesapeake Bay, were conducted by the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. The full-color reports summarize USGS studies that began in 1992 and are written to convey the technical findings to a wide audience including water m...Fish Farmers Must Learn Zebra Mussel Prevention From A To Z
...o fish. Some aquaculture operations may be able to drain entire ponds to kill off zebra mussels, and for them, Sea Grant researchers recommend a two-week drying out period in either very cold or very hot weather. Many molluscicides haven't been approved for aquaculture use and may require special permissio...Potential Solutions For Gulf of Mexico's "Dead Zone" Explored
...;When water naturally spillsover the banks, it can drain through a riparian corridor and come back ascleaner ground water. “It’s our job to assess how well these proposed ecotechnologieswill work in dealing with the hypoxia problem,” Mitsch said. “Itjust makes ecological sense to try t...Sandia Decontamination Foam May Be Tomorrow's Best First Response In A Chem-Bio Attack
...following a chem-bio incident tobe washed down the drain like dish soap. "The foam gets around the traditional approaches that have high water demand anduse more damaging chemicals," says Thomas. "It also offers an "all-in-one"approach that would greatly simplify deployment considerations." Like a fire ret...Vertical Strip Drains Increase Dredged Material Storage Area
...hallenges," Stark said. "Not only was the 160-foot drain length close to thelongest drain ever installed, but the installationequipment had to operate on the surface of soft, saturated dredg...Agronomists offer alternative approaches to gulf pollution
...oneof these reports calculated the effects of tile drain systems that are commonthroughout the Midwest. We ...tile drainage you possiblyhave a direct avenue for drain water to enter surface water." Turco points out that although tile drainage systems are a gr...Stream research supports better watershed management
... management offisheries in rivers and streams that drain agricultural landscapes," Herricks said....Extinction-prone sunfish and suckers identified
...KERS Modoc Sucker -- found in three streams that drain into the Pit River in Northern California. Owens Sucker -- found in the Owens River in Central California. Yaqui Sucker -- found in the Yaqui and Rio Rivers in Arizona and Mexico. Lost River Sucker -- found in the Klamath and Agency Lakes in Orego....... Current treatments involve applying pressure to drain the lymph fluid. An intricate series of fine tubes and nodes stretching throughout the body, the lymph system performs the mundane but critical task of mopping up excess fluid as well as molecules and cells that stray from nearby blood vessels. As wi...One change in farming makes for cleaner waterways
...ater for two watersheds that drain into the lake. He then compared those results to how farming practices changed in the area during the same time. Water quality improved with the adoption of farming ...Arctic ecosystems being nibbled away
...ngle pass of a heavy tank-like tracked vehicle can drain an Arctic meadow. "In the increasingly accessible...ong-term damage. Dwarf shrubs can die, meadows can drain rapidly and dry out, and the permafrost that most tundra ecosystems depend on can melt. While summer...UFS Mcknight Brain Institute researchers: Pioneering spinal cord procedure appears safe
...nal cords in connection with a needed operation to drain and close fluid-filled cavities that had developed after their initial injuries. The condition, called syringomyelia, is thought to occur in up to 20 percent of people with spinal cord injuries. It can cause unbearable pain and progressive loss of se...December media highlights - GSA BULLETIN
... rivers originating in the Sierra Nevada mountains drain through the coastal mountains on their way to passage under the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific Ocean. Geology of El Misti volcano near the city of Arequipa, Peru.Jean-Claude Thouret et al,,CNRS Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, and Institut de ...Go ahead with EMBO restart fellowship
...00 Euro. In addition to this financial loss,, the drain of intellectual resources lost each time a female scientist departs from the field of research, is indeed considerable. "As in the past it's still the women who are staying at home" explains Gerlind Wallon, leader of the EMBO Programme 'Women in Sc...Polluted beach closures influenced by full moons and sunlight, surfer-engineer discovers
...ter quality. Also, don't put things down the storm drain that you wouldn't want to swim in.'' Although ocean water at Santa Cruz is much cooler than at Huntington Beach or Hawaii, Boehm predicts that it won't be long before she dons her wetsuit and rides the wild surf: ''I'd like to get out and do field wo...Hopkins researchers find postoperative fevers common following hemispherectomy
... only one has required the insertion of a shunt to drain CSF, and none have been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis....INEEL geoscientist to present NAPL contaminant modeling advance at AGU Meeting
...enough, the results show that NAPL will completely drain from a vadose zone, which is contrary to field and experimental observations" said Lenhard. Better constitutive theory is needed for developing accurate computer models. "The lack of well-founded constitutive theory may be the foremost element impe...... reservoir put the brakes on the construction of a drain that would have carried irrigation water from the Central Valley to the Delta. Farmers say the disruption of the irrigation drain, however, allowed salt to build up in the soil, leaving their land fallow. The situation was bad enough that, last mont...