January media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...gressively depleted in heavy oxygen isotopes as it traveled from low latitudes in the Pacific ocean across North America. These air circulation patterns delivered both warm air and isotopically depleted moisture to the Arctic during the summer months of continuous sunlight and explosive growth. Such a weather...South American forests offer glimpse of U.S. ecosystems before industrial revolution
...ry different before the industrial revolution. "We traveled in time by traveling to South America," said Lars Hedin, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, who recently came to Princeton from Cornell University, where he conducted the research with former graduate student Steven Perakis. The informati...US ecology dramatically altered by fertilizers and acid rain
...in form of nitrogen in unpolluted ecosystems. "We traveled in time by traveling to South America," said Lars Hedin, a co-author of the study and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University. The information they uncovered could have far-reaching impacts in many areas of ecology, f...Reserve creates model for science-based indigenous stewardship of land
...ks the Atlantic to the Pacific and will be heavily traveled has split a once continuous expanse of forest. Waves of colonists already are following the highway, clearing and fragmenting the area. Illegal hunting and fishing have increased. Commercial logging companies have begun to cut hardwoods along the roa...New research sheds light on earth's largest animals
...ovided significant long-term data. Those 45 whales traveled a composite 230,000 kilometers and dove some 2.5 million times. One animal migrated more than 10,000 miles, he said. The data that comes out of studies like these is significant, Mate says, because it tells scientists and resource managers where wha...Centuries-old lotus seeds germinated by UCLA scientists
...can Journal of Botany. Shen-Miller led a team that traveled in 1996 to the village of Xipaozi in Pulandian, Liaoning province, China, to search for ancient lotus seeds. Shen-Millers team combed the land which dried over the centuries due to a series of massive earthquakes (a 1556 earthquake in the region kil...Worm neuron research may lead to powerful model for Parkinson's study
...of Medicine and expert in C. elegans anatomy. Nass traveled to New York and, for nearly a month, helped prepare hundreds of ultrathin sections of his 6-OHDA-treated worms for electron microscopy. He photographed and evaluated the electron micrograph image of each section, and found that, indeed, the dopamine ...Fulbright fellow develops environmental biology courses in Zimbabwe
... living and study skills. Besides working, Buikema traveled and experienced life in Zimbabwe. He saw the tragic sidethe poverty, the lack of education and opportunities, the sickness of AIDS. One out of two Zimbabweans has the HIV virus, he said. "We passed a cemetery with row after row of freshly dug grave...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...f the coast of Washington State. Molten rock first traveled almost 25 miles horizontally through Earth's crust, along the crest of the Juan de Fuca ridge, a prominent submarine mountain range. It then poured out onto the seafloor, heating the seawater much above its usual icy temperatures and causing a brief ...Rose breeding blooms from backyard to genetics lab
...o add diversity to the breeding efforts. Byrne has traveled to China twice and is cooperating with horticulturists there to collect and evaluate roses from their native land. And with Dr. Brent Pemberton, horticulturist at the Experiment Station in Overton, Byrne has evaluated about 300 roses wild, commercia...U of C researcher tracks path of flying snake
...phic Committee for Research and Exploration, Socha traveled to Singapore twice and Thailand once to study the snakes. After six years of research, miles of videotape and film, and more than his share of snake bites, Socha has emerged as rare as his subject: a flying snake expert. Scientists have documented th...DNA evidence suggests 3 types of elephants roam Africa
...eable, either ecologically or genetically." Eggert traveled to Africa to collect her samples while working as a doctoral student in Woodruff's UCSD laboratory, which specializes in the development of non-invasive techniques to collect and assess genetic information from dangerous or difficult to observe wildl...Invasive species: Those who live together invade better
... countries around the world, a successful and well traveled invader. Native aphids and other native varieties of mealybugs, some with legs, others without, were found in the shelters too, but nowhere near the amount of the legless invader. The researchers aren't sure why the ants build the shelters for thes...UIC scientists provide first images of HIV in living cells
...esearchers filmed individual HIV particles as they traveled to the nucleus of a human cell and began taking over its genetic machinery -- the first step in the destruction of the body's immune system that leads to AIDS. The movies not only offer tantalizing glimpses of HIV in action, but provide visual proof...Stretch of I-40 part of ORNL, UT environmental lab initiative
...he interstate is one of the country's most heavily traveled highways because it is where three major interstate highways converge on a 20-mile stretch through Knoxville. The area of the field lab is also home to three large truck stops, a trucking company terminal and other trucking industry-related facilitie...UC Riverside study suggests placentas can evolve in 750,000 years or less
...story data for around 15 years. For the study, he traveled around Latin America collecting the fish, going to museums to work with their collections, and then doing the appropriate dissections at UC Riverside. Several UC Riverside undergraduate students contributed to the dissections. Reznick also worked o...Invading weeds escaped old enemies, brought immunity
...ted States as noxious weeds, the "most successful" traveled light -- carrying fewer plant diseases from their native habitats -- and were more immune to New World plant diseases. That is the conclusion of Cornell University ecologists after examining plant-health records on both sides of the Atlantic. The st...Theyre healthier: With fewer parasites, invaders gain competitive edge over native species
... European green crab, which Torchin and colleagues traveled the world to study. The scientists found that in Europe, the green crab's native home, parasitic barnacles castrated the crabs. Where the barnacles were common, the crabs were small and rare. Conversely, the scientists found that crabs were big and ...Waging war: The curse of human intelligence
...and the American Philosophical Society, Roscoe has traveled to archives around the world to collect data about warfare in contact-era New Guinea. Since anthropologists usually arrived many years after contact, Roscoe often has had to rely on other sources, especially the writings of missionaries who visited t......ogical Seminary). For the past 35 years, Klein has traveled to South Africa at least once a year to study the change that spurred human creativity. ''When you look at the archaeological record before 50,000 years ago, it's remarkably homogeneous,'' he says. ''There are no geographically delineated groups of a...