Science picksleads, feeds and story seeds (November 2002)
...ral audiences something about the processes of the earth sciences that create the startling beauty of the images. The collection is currently on display at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but anyone can take a virtual tour through a web version of the exhibit at http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/...Scientists tackle the question: 'What will it really take to stop global warming?'
...ich traps energy that would otherwise radiate from earth back into space. Due to population growth and industrialization, atmospheric CO2 has increased from 275 parts per million to 370 parts per million over the last century, and is projected to pass 550 ppm this century. Given that 85% of the world's ...Rolex announces winners of international awards
...ow-tech agriculture in one of the driest places on earth is one of five individuals to be named winners of the 10th series of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise for their groundbreaking projects in the areas of science, the environment, exploration and cultural heritage. Each winner, or Laureate, will receive...High school science teachers translate the latest research into classroom activities, lessons
..., five teachers of high school biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, and mathematics worked with Virg...s in biology, physics, mathematics, chemistry, and earth sciences lessons. "So we have managed to translate something very specialized into five different ar...Agronomy, Crops and Soils Annual Meetings' papers, symposia searchable online
...t information in agronomy, crop, soil, and related earth sciences with paper and poster sessions beginning at 7:30am Nov. 11 through noon on Nov. 14....From moon rocks to space food: UH research spans 40 years
...t experiments investigating the origins of life on earth and the composition of the cosmos, establishing hi...haracterize the wake vacuum of a spacecraft in low earth orbit. Materials grown in orbit have led to terrestrial applications such as bionic eyes, high-effic...University of California, Riverside study dates our ancestors
...and a postdoctoral researcher in the department of earth sciences at UC Riverside. "These samples of ancient marine rocks were then carefully inspected, x-rayed, and thin-sectioned for microscopic examination to provide us with an even closer look." The authors attribute the exceptional preservation of Ea...'OptIPuter' design for data-intensive computer wins $13.5 million NSF award
...tial application efforts will be in bioscience and earth sciences research, including environmental, seismic and remote sensing. It is one of the largest Information Technology Research (ITR) grants awarded since the NSF established the program in 2000. Dubbed the "OptIPuter" -- for optical networking, Int...GSA Release 02-41: 2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
...isposal, including Yucca Mountain, and the role of earth sciences in fostering global equity and stability. The meeting also reflects GSAs continued commitment to Earth system processes and integrative science; a number of sessions bring geoscience together with biology, ecology, medicine, and other scient...AAAS at the BA: Whale food, winners and losers in Antarctica and solar insights
...e change and may be amongst the most vulnerable on earth because of their poor physiological capacities to cope with rising temperature. In the icy waters surrounding Antarctica, even fluctuations in the abundance of tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans called krill, a staple food source for fish and sea mammals ...Natural-born killers enlisted to fight anthrax
... Phage (plural) are the most abundant life form on earth and can be found anywhere that bacteria thrive, such as soil, water and sewage. Like human viruses, they inject their genetic material into the bacterial cell, replicate by the hundreds per cell, then burst out before moving on to the next host cell....Ira Rubinoff honored by the Association for Tropical Biology
...onomy. Estimates of the number of organisms on the earth range from six to thirty million. Researchers have currently only identified two million of the life forms that share this planet with us and still know nearly nothing about their behavior and ecological significance. Rubinoff emphasized the need to...Rice building Texas' fastest academic supercomputer
...culty from disciplines as diverse as biochemistry, earth science, economics, neuroscience, computer science and political science will use RTC in their research," said Moshe Vardi, RTC principal investigator and CITI director. "It will also be a vital tool for basic computational research aimed at better d...New drug discovery spin-off from CSIRO
...t, said. There are around 250,000 plant species on earth but there are more than four million insect species. Microbial diversity is also huge, although 99% of bacteria cannot be cultured in the laboratory. "The plant and microbial worlds have long been targets for discovery of therapeutic drugs, but ins...New research site established in Australia to help predict climate change
...n regulating the absorption of solar energy by the earth and an important factor in regulating the loss of infrared energy from the earth - basically a "natural" balance of energy entering and exiting the atmosphere, but which may be alt...Acid rain threatens forests in more ways than previously thought
...e Fig. 1). "We went to the cleanest atmosphere on earth and looked for a stable ecosystem so that we could find the closest thing to a long-term sustainable forest," Kennedy said (see Fig. 2). "There, we sampled soils, stream water, rain and plants, and analyzed the strontium isotope composition." Stro...Researchers arming farms to halt increases in greenhouse gases
...the overall temperature goes up, some parts of the earth may actually see lower temperatures," Turco said. "Instead of calling it global warming, we should call it global climate instability because what we are seeing is more extreme weather." Although scientists have not found a direct cause-and-effect r...Cosmic impacts implicated in both the rise and fall of dinosaurs
...l evidence that comets or asteroids colliding with earth not only helped wipe out the dinosaurs, but may have originally helped bring them to prominence about 200 million years ago. Dennis V. Kent, Rutgers geology professor, was among a team of geologists who analyzed footprints, bones and plant spores in ...May media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
... tectonics is one of the most powerful theories in earth sciences and it has explained many geological features by the interactions of tectonic plates. No theory, however, predicts the number, size or shapes of the plates and how they influence mantle convection. If the plate tectonic system is a self-orga......or dolphins. But their contribution to the natural earth cannot be overstated. Insects, with more than 1.2 million known species, represent more than 80 percent of all living creatures on Earth. If human beings were to disappear tomorrow, the world would go on, but if invertebrates were to disappear, I do...