August media highlights GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...evaluating hypotheses for global-scale patterns of planetary wetness. The authors have documented pronounced temporal variations in manganese and barium that can be correlated over large regions and that appear to be related to variations in paleo-wetness. They suspect, but cannot prove, that higher manganese ...Top environment scientist calls for early warning system for global change.
...ation network - a type of early warning system for planetary change - is now urgently needed to identify, describe and monitor environmental change,' Dr Steffen will say. The four day conference aims to locate scientific advances made indeveloping high quality monitoring systems and techniques capable of accur...International scientists probe unsolved puzzles of the Earth and beyond at "Earth System Processes"
...erspectives on this highly controversial theory of planetary glaciation, where the poles were covered by ice and the oceans were frozen. Paul Hoffman, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, will introduce the session and emphasize that any successful hypothesis must account for a uniq...URI oceanographers discover how planetary waves affect phytoplankton production
...Oceanography (GSO) scientists have discovered that planetary waves traveling thousands of miles have a signific...ophyll and sea-surface-height. The data shows that planetary waves, waves that travel in a westward direction in the oceans, are associated with five to 20 perce......some specimens recovered from Antarctica represent planetary materials from the moon and Mars....7,000 feet under the Sea: LSU scientists take geology to great depths
...large releases of methane gas correspond with past planetary climatic changes, such as global warming, it could explain why such events took place and whether Earth is in store for more such changes. "There is a lot of geologic evidence that brief events of global warming have taken place repeatedly thro......, plants could be designed to grow in all sorts of planetary environments. They could also be given useful new traits. One possibility, Somerville says, is to get rid of the rigid cell walls which evolved to allow plants to stand up in Earth's gravity. On Mars, or anywhere else with a weaker gravitational pul...Analysis of Martian meteorite using unique magnetic microscope
...dvance with profound applications in the earth and planetary sciences, says Kirschvink. Theres no other instrument in the world like it, agrees Baudenbacher. The device can measure magnetic fields a million times weaker than Earths field with sub-millimeter spatial resolution, allowing it to produce extremely ...Geological Society of America: Annual Meeting 2000
... Research Center, Rovers as geological helpers for planetary surface exploration. Harrison H. Schmitt, Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, Rationales for human return to the Moon and human exploration of Mars. Note: The session will conclude with rover and instrument demonstrations. STRUCTURE AND TECTONICS OF PLA......is model, went right. His work did more to support planetary geoengineering than to shoot it down. But he won't be cutting down the trees in his garden just yet. Like many other researchers he's still disenchanted with the whole idea. And they have plenty of reasons to be concerned. The idea of geoengineering...Fall 2000 meeting of the American Geophysical Union
...arth, atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic, space, and planetary sciences. AGU is dedicated to fostering high-quality scientific research, disseminating the results of that research both to the scientific community and the general public, enhancing educational opportunities in science, and encouraging internationa...DFG to launch 21 new priority programmes
... in the creation of planets and the development of planetary bodies. ENGINEERING SCIENCES In future, new materials with tailor-made properties will be required for a number of applications in mechanical engineering, nanotechnology, information processing and power engineering. In the priority programme Creat...New research proves fullerene can be cosmic carbon carriers
...new possibilities in looking at the problem of how planetary atmospheres evolved and maybe even how life evolved on Earth and perhaps other moons and planets" says Luann Becker, a researcher in the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology in the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth...AGU 1999 Fall Meeting -- Information for media representatives
...h, atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic, and space and planetary sciences. AGU is dedicated to fostering high-quality scientific research, disseminating the results of that research, enhancing educational opportunities in science, and encouraging international cooperation in geophysics. This year, two new them...Media Advisory: The Geological Society of America 1999 Annual Meeting
...st to the public include geologic hazards,climate, planetary science, environment, science and public policy, andgeoscience education. A sample of meeting highlights is presented below. Visit GSA's web site, http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/99/index.htm , for the program calendar anddescriptions of all sy......t glaciation ended about 10,000 years ago, and the planetary monsoonsystems were re-invigorated, C4 grasses reached only moderate levels at LakeEyre. Today, the desert scrub found there survives on less than 10 inches ofprecipitation that falls throughout the year. Just three months ago, in the Jan. 8 issue o...Gold Finds Life, Energy, Controversy In Earth
... body within." Thus, he writes, life on many other planetary bodies seems probable, even thoughtheir surfaces are either too hot or too cold to support life. " Subsurface life, however, is another matter. Mars, the satellites of themajor planets, many asteroids and even our own moon should be regarded as re...Long Lava Flows May Have Taken Years, Causing Global Cooling And Extinctions
...r volcanologists analyzing floodbasalt lava flows, planetary geologists, marine geologists, theoreticians, andeconomic geologists studying ancient ore-bearing lava flows. The duration of a lava flow affects the amount of sulfur dioxidereleased into the atmosphere and therefore the degree of global coo...National Science Foundation Is Taking Small Business Into A New Phase Of Innovation
...a miniaturized device to measure the properties of planetary magnetic fields; Pericle Communications Company, f... a prototype laser magnetometerdesigned to measure planetary magnetic fields from an orbiting spacecraft. Theself-calibrating laser magnetometer will provide re......ting the university's long involvement with NASA's planetary programs andmissions, as well as its unique strengths in evolutionary life sciences, planetary science andstrategic collaborative partnerships, ASU's Astrobiology Center would focus on five diffe...