Montana Scientist Returns From Dinosaur Nesting Site In Patagonia
... fun to study, she's as fascinated by the region's geology andancient soils as by the eggs and embryos. She "fell in love" with geology after chaperoning her son Kaj and hiscousins on a trip to Egg Mountain several years ago. Jackson be...USGS will re-evaluate its Alaska strategy
...sstill much to be learned about the land, climate, geology and biology of thenorthernmost state. "Vast areas, including those in the national parks (inAlaska) have not been geologically mapped, and many major streams are stillungaged," Groat said. To fill these informational gaps, Groat is launchi...New screening method identifies areas susceptible to Selenium contamination in Western United States
A new screening method, based on geology and climatology, has beenshown to be a reliable means for predicting where lands inirrigated areas are susceptible to contamination from selenium,according to a report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), incooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlif...Geologists at UNC-CH discover state's 'most spectacular' fossils
...teresting," said Dr. Joseph G. Carter,professor of geology at UNC-CH. "I was very curious because I'd never seenanything like it in terms of how the bones joined together. We went back to lookmore carefully the next day and found and removed a lot more material." Carter and his students have been work...Jurassic period mammal teeth found; prevailing theories challenged
...cuous," said Andre R. Wyss, associate professor of geology at the University of California,Santa Barbara, and one of the authors of the article. The National Geographic Society funded the research, a collaborationthat included John J. Flynn and William F. Simpson, of the department of geology, the Fi...Media Advisory: The Geological Society of America 1999 Annual Meeting
...ture and therelationship of damage to near-surface geology will be presented. Hearfirst-hand accounts of thi... distance learning coursein college-level physical geology for high school juniors and seniors; andinteractive CD-ROM technology for teaching geoscience in gra...Tracks in iron provide an insightful map of microbial world
...ed in Science include Clark Johnson, a professorof geology and geophysics at UW-Madison; Lea Cox, Henry Sun and Kenneth Nealsonof NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.; and Carmen Aguilar ofthe Institute for Great Lakes Study at UW-Milwaukee....Newly released satellite images of Antarctica a valuable scientific benchmark
...cott Borg, who manages the U.S. AntarcticProgram's geology and geophysics program. The National Science Foundation(NSF), through the USAP, coordinates numerous scientific research efforts in theregion. Borg noted that the satellite images will provide a basis for comparisonwith other data gathered i...Discovery of oldest dinosaur bones reported in Science
...dagascar," said Andre Wyss, associate professor of geology at the Universityof California, Santa Barbara, and co-leader of the research team. "It includesthe fragmentary remains of two plant eating dinosaurs, prosauropods, about thesize of a new-born calf, which are not only the earliest dinosaurs known from...Evidence for historic global warming published in Science
... Kennett a University of California, Santa Barbara geology professor and his student Lowell Stott.) Co-author Dorothy Pak, researcher in the Department of Geological Sciences and the Marine Science Institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara, explained that the new information is the ...New Cosumnes River research partnership announced
...atory and classroom," said Jeffrey Mount, chair of geology at UC Davis and director of the UC Davis Watershed Center. "The river has an active floodplain and no dams, making it ideal for studying the relationship between the hydrologic cycle and the plant, animal and human communities that live in the waters...Peter H. Raven voted president-elect of AAAS
...phen Jay Gould, Ph.D., professor of zoology and of geology at Harvard and curator of invertebrate paleantology at that university's Museum of Comparative Zoology, will succeed M. R. C. Greenwood, Ph.D., chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, as chair....One theory solves two ancient climate paradoxes
...es from vertical. "George Williams, department of geology and geophysics, University of Adelaide, originally proposed the tilt and suggested that if a large enough mass built up on the pole, it could untilt," said Jenkins. "At the end of the Precambrian, most of the Earth's land mass was centered around the......y, demography, phylogenetic biology, paleontology, geology and historical geography. "Phylogeography is an integrative endeavor that lies at the important crossroads of diverse evolutionary disciplines," said Avise. By 1998, the respected journal Molecular Ecology devoted an entire issue to phylogeography...Ground-penetrating radar detects hard-to-find hazardous waste
...th rocks and soil. Erich Guy, geology graduate student, led the investigation of the Marion site. Other graduate students working on the project included Stan Radzevicius and Jennifer Holt. Between the 1890s and 1960s, the Mario...Acid-loving microbe may be a key to mine pollution
...son in the lab of Jillian Banfield, a professor of geology and geophysics and a co-author of the study. The discovery of the new microbe is important because it helps explain how the natural cycle of the conversion of sulfide to sulfuric acid is greatly accelerated around mines. Moreover, the physiological c...USGS director applauds FY 2001 appropriations
...increases for geologic mapping, coastal and marine geology studies, the National Atlas, amphibian research and monitoring, biological information systems, the mission operations of Landsat 7, and funding for high priority research in support of DOI land conservation and preservation. The FY 2001 Interior...Mother nature cleans up human-made mess
...lp people clean up their act. Marianne Douglas, a geology professor, and her co-investigator, Queen's University professor John Smol, analyzed clusters of algae or diatoms and water samples taken from Meretta Lake at Resolute Bay, Nunavut, to determine the lake's water quality. "We were pleased to see the q...Discovery may jump-start mine remediation efforts
...ld, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of geology and geophysics, describe the discovery and characterization of natural biofilms that seem to concentrate zinc sulfide. The biofilms, found deep in an abandoned mine, are heavily populated with bacteria, some of which help convert sulfate or sulfuric ...Scientists track phosphate to better understand global warming
...cent years, AGU meetings, traditionally devoted to geology and geophysics, have increasingly included biology-related topics. This year's meeting, however, marks the first at which "biogeosciences" is an official heading. The new heading describes an interdisciplinary field that treats the Earth system as a ...