November GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...Ocean Drilling Program expedition to Shatsky Rise, northwest Pacific. Timothy J. Bralower, Isabella Premoli Si...on of warm climatic intervals; Shatsky Rise in the northwest Pacific was known to preserve high-quality Cretaceous and Paleogene sections. Leg 198 recovered an i...Grant from Vetlesen Foundation supports URI Graduate School of Oceanography Climate Research
...archicus between the Labrador Sea and areas in the northwest Atlantic, such as Georges Bank. Calanus finmarchicus is a microscopic crustacean that feeds off phytoplankton and is a favorite food of cod and haddock. Durbin and Luo will use the Princeton Ocean Model with a high resolution grid to determine if sea...Bacteria point the way to gold deposits
...ators had been working on microbial exploration in northwest Sichuan province, which is very famous for its abundance of gold resources. The four-year project was for her Ph.D. thesis research. Usually gold in soluble form is toxic to microbes as well as to higher organisms. However, bacterial spores can resi...Advances developed to detect bioterrorist agents could find use in protecting food supplies
...ings finding of plague, in a small rural community northwest of Flagstaff, Ariz., was confirmed within four hours by a team of researchers led by NAU microbiology professor and plague expert Paul Keim. The Livermore DNA signatures were also used in February as part of a detection system deployed by Los Alamos...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...retarded rollback of the subducting slab along the northwest corner of the trench, and reduced extension and shearing in the northwest corner of the North Fiji Basin. Backarc extension continued in the rest of the North Fiji Basin due ...February media highlights - GSA Bulletin
...ord of the Turpan-Hami basin and adjacent regions, northwest China: Constraints on postamalgamation tectonic ev...xpeditions have documented the geologic history of northwest China during the Permian period, a time immediately following an episode of plate collisions and mou...January media highlights-GSA Bulletin
... associated with east-west extension in the inland northwest from British Columbia to Nevada from the Eocene to the present. Control of internal structure and fluid-migration pathways within the Barbados Ridge dcollement zone by strike-slip faulting: Evidence from coherence and three-dimensional seismic ampl...January media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...dune field contains numerous parabolic dunes, with northwest orientations that are up to 8 m high. In order to test the age of these dunes, sands at five widely spaced sites were dated via optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) of quartz. The resulting ages establish that eolian sand was last mobilized in the...Warmer periods in Alaskan area not confined to modern times
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. In the northwest foothills of the Alaska Range, the last 150 years have been warm by historical reckoning, scientists report. However, they note, two other lengthy periods of climatic warmth appear to have occurred in that region during the last 2,000 years. The fi...Banning animals from the bedroom could reduce Chagas Disease risk, say Science researchers
...sed on household data from three rural villages in northwest Argentina. The model looks at seasonal fluctuations in household bug and parasite populations, and their relationship to the numbers of humans, chickens, and dogs living within a household. Data collected by the field research team show that humans, ...Montana drought sends paleontologists to field early for largest project in state's history
...ng also started a fire that burned about 150 acres northwest of Brusett. MSU is in the third year of a five-year project to survey the entire Hell Creek Formation within the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Jack Horner, curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies, put together a team of...New satellite study shows vegetation increases in North America
... western Canada and Alaska. Recent warming in the northwest part of the continent appears to have triggered earlier annual snowmelt and an earlier beginning to the growing season, Hicke said. The observations were made in the visible and near-infrared bands of instruments on board several generations of th...WWII landmark becomes a wildlife sanctuary
...f Assam in India with the well-known Burma Road in northwest Myanmar. The road system provided communications and supplies for the Allies' struggle against the Japanese. The Ledo Road took some 60,000 engineers and indigenous laborers two years to build, hacking through more than 300 miles of jungle, and nego...Unprecedented fire season in southern Africa aids air quality, climate change research
... "We observed a river of smoke that moved from northwest to southeast over the subcontinent, causing heavy haze and reduced visibility over Botswana and South Africa for about ten days in early September," says SAFARI 2000 organizer Harold Annegarn of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. ...Cincinnati researchers document environmental problems caused by tourist trade in Crete
...pe or ecologically sensistive area, located on the northwest corner of the Municipality of Hersonissos, now contains piles of garbage and other solid waste such as plastic bags and bottles, tennis shoes, bottles and empty brake fluid containers. "Oh my gosh, Liz, did you see this?" asks Wray on what might be ...Setting the real bottom line: Dr. David Suzuki to speak at ESA annual meeting
...omically and ecologically sound vision of Canada's northwest coast that conserves the rare and important coastal temperate rainforest. Dr. Suzuki is a geneticist with a B.S. degree from Amherst College and a Ph.D. degree in zoology from the University of Chicago. He has been awarded 15 honorary doctorates...... began on the quiet shore of Lake Maracaibo in the northwest corner of Venezuela in San Luis, a fishing town much like any other Venezuelan village. Spend time in San Luis and something extraordinary becomes apparent. A noticeably large number of the people walk erratically, weaving down the streets, lurching ...$1.5 million awarded to marine conservationists
...orses and raising awareness to restore the Pacific northwest salmon runs, to educating Ecuadorian fishermen to collect data that protects the Galapagos Marine Reserve. The total of $1.5 million presented annually by the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation makes the fellowships the world's largest award ...Scientists discover 66-million-year-old dinosaur with a heart
... size of a short-legged pony, was found in 1993 in northwest South Dakota. It was acquired by the museum in 1996 and is on permanent display in the museum's new "Prehistoric North Carolina" exhibit. Scientists have nicknamed the 663-pound, 13-foot-long herbivore Willo, after the wife of the rancher on whos...... strokes. Subjects lived in Forsyth Co., N.C., the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis, Washington County, Md. and Jackson, Miss. During the period studied, 458 people suffered heart attacks or were newly diagnosed with heart disease, Pankow said. The final sample consisted of 400 cases and 890 others who served...