Virginia Tech researchers to release findings on Smith River Project
...." The dam and river are located in the mountains northwest of Martinsville, which is near the Virginia-North Carolina line. The river is home to a wild population of brown trout. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been invited to make a short presentation on the status of its Philpott 216 Study, which wi...Volcanic soils yield new clues about the emergence of powerful chiefdoms in Hawaii
...ed on Kohala a comparatively young volcano on the northwest tip of the island of Hawaii. Early Polynesians created a vast agricultural complex on the volcano's southwest flank, where they raised sweet potatoes and other dryland crops. Remnants of long-abandoned fields including rows of earthen walls once use...Conservation International & SC Johnson invest in Ecuador's rainforest to offset climate impacts
...s through the reforestation of degraded forests in northwest Ecuador. SC Johnson's commitment will support the restoration of up to 45 acres of degraded forests along the buffer zone of Ecuador's Mache Chundul Ecological Reserve through the planting of up to 15 native hardwood tree species. As this regenerate...K-State uses geographic tools to track plant pathogens
...tions that aphids might be found eventually in the northwest region of the country but probably will not disperse along the Mississippi River valley south of Tennessee. "In the event of a real agroterrorism event, having a tool like this and expanded geographic databases would be invaluable," says Hutchi...Lakes with zebra mussels have higher levels of toxins, MSU research finds
...Lower Peninsula, ranging from Benzie County in the northwest to Oakland County in the southeast, that had established zebra mussel populations. Follow-up experiments by Sarnelle and colleagues in west Michigan's Gull Lake showed that zebra mussels are indeed the cause of the increase in toxic algae. There have...... in the southern part of Ireland, about five miles northwest of the town of Cork. Legend says that kissing the Blarney Stone bestows the gift of blarney, or sweet flattering talk. USGS geologists will tell you that if you've ever kissed the Blarney Stone, then you've kissed a piece of limestone formed about ...Increased temperature may prevent winter flounder from rebounding in east coast estuaries
... paralleled by a significant warming trend in many northwest Atlantic estuaries that are used by juvenile floun...imp. Thus, the recent warming trend experienced in northwest Atlantic estuaries may explain the failure of the winter flounder stocks to recover in these areas. ...Scientists report first sequencing of environmental genome
...rk depths of the Richmond Mine, located nine miles northwest of Redding. Her goal is to understand how the extremophiles - microbes that live in extreme environments - live together and generate the acid drainage that makes such mines toxic hazards. The green runoff from the mine, captured and treated by the E...Microbial biofilm yields community genomes, metabolic clues
...ting from amine on Iron Mountain, about nine miles northwest ofRedding. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the mine,which shut down in 1963 after nearly a century ofoperations, created the most acidic mine drainage in theworld, discharging-on average-a ton of toxic metals everyday into the Uppe...From neighborhoods to globe, NASA looks at land
...t in the metropolitan area. Non-urban areas to the northwest and west of the city show higher LAI values compared to the 2001-2002 average, indicating more vegetation. Applications of the LIS are countless. For example, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation plans to use the LIS to help determine snowpack, amounts of...Helping carnivores and people co-exist
...ne on wild predators including wolves and bears in northwest Wisconsin; the carcasses were replaced regularly; the pre-treatment and treatment periods ranged from roughly a week to a month; and the movement-activated guards had strobe lights and recordings of 30 sounds, including yelling, gunfire and helicopte...Climate linked to reproduction of right whales
...ve' state, conditions over the Labrador Sea in the northwest Atlantic are colder and stormier, while the northeast Atlantic and northern Europe experience warmer and milder weather. When the NAO is in its 'negative' state, the conditions reverse. After a winter of positive NAO conditions, the deep waters in th...UC Berkeley museum biologists to repeat 85-year-old Yosemite National Park wildlife survey
... in the park. And, while looking at mammals in the northwest corner of the park around Merced Grove and Crane F...Yosemite Valley; followed by a trip in June to the northwest part of the park near Crane Flat and Merced Big Trees; one in early July to the Glacier Point area; ......he Amu Darya, seen south, and the Syr Darya to the northwest were diverted by Soviet planners to irrigate thirsty cotton fields across the region. By the 1980s there was little water reaching the lake and it began to shrink. For local people the results have been disastrous. The Aral Sea's retreating shore...The 'fixed' hotspot that created Hawaii was not stationary after all, study finds
...at line of volcanoes that extends some 1,800 miles northwest across the Pacific. At that point, the Hawaiian Ridge meets the Emperor Seamounts an older volcanic chain that abruptly changes course, stretching more than 1,000 miles almost due north to the Aleutian Trench. According to most researchers, this sha...Lead poisoning still threatens albatross chicks on Midway Atoll
...ety. Midway Atoll, a sliver of islands 1,200 miles northwest of Hawaii, was the site of one of World War II's b...e showed approximately a 30 percent decline in the northwest Hawaiian Islands between the years of 1992-2001." Many U.S. military bases around the world are bein...Mouse study suggests mammoth evolutionary change
...s captured back in 1906 at Volo Bog, some 45 miles northwest of Chicago. That discovery prompted Pergams to get all the museum specimens that were collected in Illinois' Cook and Lake counties. The researchers used DNA taken not from the nucleus, but from mitochondria, the power plants of the cell. Each cell ...New studies reveal connections between oceanographic processes and rockfish populations
...s during the spring and summer when winds from the northwest blow warm surface waters offshore and stir up deep, cold water nearshore. Every couple of weeks or so, the winds shift and the upwelling subsides, allowing warm water to move back to the coastline--this is known as relaxation. It turns out that the r...Envisats ASAR reveals extent of massive oil spill off Spanish coast
Oil from the wrecked tanker off the northwest coast of Spain had already reached the Spanish coa...ating from the stricken ship and stretching to the northwest coast of Spain. The image was captured by the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) onboard the ...Oregon power companies offset carbon through investment in Ecuadors rainforest
...t to reforest 680 acres of degraded pastureland in northwest Ecuador. This reforestation project offsets a part of the carbon reductions required of new power plants built in the State of Oregon. The Climate Trust, a nonprofit organization set-up to invest in carbon activities for these companies, provided $...