Mathematical rule said to be widely and wrongly used to forecast future beach erosion
...o provide accurate predictions." Pilkey, a retired geology professor who still directs Duke's Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, said in an interview that the rule was developed in the 1960s by Per Bruun, a Danish civil engineer who was long active in Florida beach preservation projects. Accordin...A picture is worth a thousand miles not traveled to measure the fossil of an ancient sea creature
... Krause says he has always been interested in geology and biology. As an undergraduate at the University...combine the interests. His bachelor's degree is in geology from the University of Wisconsin and his master's degree in geology is from the University of Cincin...Best way to clean up toxic plumes? Give 'em a pill
... study with David Li, a postdoctoral researcher in geology at Ohio State. Li presented the findings Wednesday in Anaheim at the meeting of the American Chemical Society. So far, the researchers have only tested the time-released potassium permanganate chunks in laboratory experiments. But the results are pro...Biologist's find alters the bacteria family tree
... come together." She uses elements of biology and geology to understand how the earth and its inhabitants co-evolved. It is known that earth's earliest organisms were thermophilic, or able to dwell in hot environments. These organisms engaged in chemotropic metabolism -- they converted inorganic substances...Guiding gas exploration: U-M research offers inexpensive tool
...sciences, and Anna Martini, assistant professor of geology at Amherst College, studied Antrim Shale deposits in the Michigan Basin, a deep depression filled with sediments that date back to the Paleozoic Era. While thermogenic gas forms far below the surface in the centers of such depressions, microbial gas ...Volcanic soils yield new clues about the emergence of powerful chiefdoms in Hawaii
...fraction of the volcano's total surface. Violent geology Sweet potatoes do best with at least 20 inches of rainfall a year and at elevations below 3,000 feet. Although such conditions exist on all of the Hawaiian Islands, evidence of large-scale sweet potato farming has only been found on Kohala and a h......wer 48 states--features everything from the area's geology and wildlife to the history of human settlements and activities, showing the landscape in its full scope for the first time in such a format. The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park--produced by the Wildlife Conservation So...Melting ice cap gives urgency to new census of marine life project in Arctic Ocean
...ep ridges and lidded with ice. Experts in biology, geology and physics from the circumpolar and other nations will use submersibles, modern sonar detection and traditional techniques to record and inventory biodiversity in the Arctic Ocean in anticipation of additional climatic warming that, if realized, cou...Geologists discover water cuts through rock at surprising speed
...e sheet," said Luke Reusser, a graduate student of geology at the University of Vermont and lead author of "...into rock, according to Paul Bierman, professor of geology at the University of Vermont and co-author of the Science paper. "Without such detail, we never wo...Evolution of whale hearing unfolds in fossil record
...irector of the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s geology and paleontology program, which funded the research. The findings are published in the Aug. 12 issue of the journal Nature . The ear is the most important sense organ for modern toothed whales, say scientists, because these whales locate their prey ...Gene duplication allowed pigs to have more babies
...nd any genome, researchers must use palaeontology, geology and chemistry to help them discover the reasons why specific genes evolved. Steven Benner and Eric Gaucher at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Frank and Rosalie Simmen at the University of Arkansas, and their colleagues from the Unit...New tool predicts how long pollutants will stay in soil
...Chemical Society. Although her own training is in geology and environmental engineering, Nguyen said the new tool is based on a breakthrough by chemists who study how medications move from the bloodstream into human tissue. At an American Chemical Society meeting last year, Nguyen heard a lecture in which K...Genetic analysis rewrites salamander's evolutionary history
... where they were ages ago, because the climate and geology have changed so much, and the species have moved around." Though results from this one family of vertebrates can't necessarily be generalized to other families, Mueller said, "this does tell us that, when reconstructing evolutionary relationships, yo...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...r apart very close to a volcanic arc. The way the geology works in a back-arc basin is different from the way it works in a mid-ocean spreading center. In back-arc basins, which are widespread in the western Pacific Ocean, a spreading center is located right next to a subduction zone (the Tonga Trench) whe......PhD, a co-author of the Science paper and chair of geology and curator of fossil amphibians and reptiles at Chicago's Field Museum. "It allowed an almost perfect strike at prey, which usually consisted of elusive fish and squid." Prey in water is slippery, and any movement toward it not only alerts the prey ...