Researchers pinpoint how tubeworm babies are dispersed to colonize new vent sites
...thermal vents are very ephemeral. These underwater volcanoes appear as the ocean floor spreads, and then they rapidly disappear, says Marsh. Scientists have often wondered how tubeworms, which are sessile creatures and cant move about the seafloor, wind up at new vent sites. The key to solving the mystery i...Scientists share multidisciplinary discoveries at 'Earth System Processes'
... focusing special attention on polar regions where volcanoes appear to have recently interacted with and melted polar ice, sustaining recent liquid water habitats near the surface. The Mars sites she will review are considered important potential candidates for future landed missions to Mars. Other noteworthy ...Earliest human ancestors discovered in Ethiopia
...racterized by intense earth movements, with active volcanoes nearby. "It is hard to imagine life would go on normally under such hostile environmental conditions -- Ardipithecus and the other animals inhabiting the area were real survivors," WoldeGabriel said. White says that an accurate portrayal of these cr...Researchers find glass-eating microbes at the rock bottom of the food chain
...ientists call super-cooled lava spewed by undersea volcanoes "glass," which is similar to material used to make stone-age axes and knives). Glass samples were recovered by drilling as deep as four miles below sea level. "Weve documented how extensive these microscopic organisms are eating into volcanic rock, l...Scholar: hurricanes helped shape Cuban culture, history
...ity, he added. People who live under the shadow of volcanoes or monsoons live in a culture of calamity. Whats fascinating to me is how these cultures begin to adapt to the possibility of catastrophe and to assimilate the peril into their everyday lives. In Cuba, Perez said, hurricanes have created an overridin...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
... how such large bodies of magma accumulate beneath volcanoes could provide valuable insight into such eruptions... million years in the area and eight alkali basalt volcanoes ranging in age from approximately 1 million to 80,000 years have erupted within 50 km of the propose...UF expert: ancient fossil suggests flowers may be underwater gift
...e was warm and temperate, and scientists know that volcanoes dotted the landscape because the specimen was found in layers of ash beds....Los Alamos researcher conducts volcanic voyeurism
...ergy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has spied on volcanoes from a distance to learn whether they give out sub...s prior to erupting.He also learned that spying on volcanoes isn't always simple and straightforward.Los Alamos researcher Steve Love today outlined the triumphs...November GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...ng for hydrothermal discharge from many underwater volcanoes between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, ...ng during an eruption. Only a very few subsurface volcanoes anywhere in the ocean have been sampled during an eruption. The scientists were able to collect a u...American Physical Society March Meeting 2003
...frasound monitoring in the atmosphere for studying volcanoes and weather (paper H3.2); assessing the value of physics research to the economy (session S2); superfluid gyroscopes (G4.2); single-molecule LEDs (P11.3); quantum cellular automata (P19.4); cerebral synchronization (N15.12); are sunscreens bad for yo...Listen up! Infrasound is talking
...citing stories about funneling tornadoes, erupting volcanoes and approaching objects from space. The impact of this current "Infrasound Renaissance" will continue to grow as more researchers discover how these inaudible sound waves can benefit their research. Large atmospheric explosions, natural and anthropog...Science Picks--Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (April 2003)
...vement of magma that is related to earthquakes and volcanoes even in the remotest areas of the planet. InSAR can also map land subsidence the sinking of the Earth's surface following the removal of earth materials, such as oil, gas or water. To learn more, visit http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/deformation/...Volcanologist Richard S. Fiske receives award
...ntists whose efforts not only bring the wonders of volcanoes to young and old alike, but demonstrate how exciti... Dr. Fiske finds ways to convey his enthusiasm for volcanoes to the general public. In 1986, he helped arrange the production of the motion picture, Inside Hawai...Science Picksleads, feeds and story seeds (July 2003)
...the size and frequency of their eruptions, Alaskan volcanoes pose a significant threat to aircraft because they intersect North Pacific air routes. This air route, directly over the volcano-laden Aleutian arc carries nearly 20,000 people and millions of dollars in cargo every day. See http://www.avo.alaska.e...The 'fixed' hotspot that created Hawaii was not stationary after all, study finds
...ed hotspot deep in the mantle, creating a trail of volcanoes whose peaks emerge from the ocean as Maui, Oahu an.... The Hawaiian Islands are part of a long chain of volcanoes collectively known as the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamounts that stretch some 3,600 miles along the floor o...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
...f the Atlantic Ocean may be using extinct undersea volcanoes as stepping stones to migrate to the other side. E...d Seeps To qualify as seamounts, underwater ghost volcanoes must rise at least 1,000 m from the abyssal plain without appearing above water as an island. At mid......ns strike. More thorough monitoring of the world's volcanoes with InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar -- which takes pictures of earth changes -- as small as 10 centimeters bulges -- from space) and continuous sensors would allow researchers to better understand a volcano's magmatic plumbing system...Elusive but ubiquitous microbe fingered as gum disease culprit in Stanford study
...ents - from hot springs to salt lakes to submarine volcanoes - but also within animals, including the human colon, vagina and mouth. "To me it is one of those fundamental puzzles: they are everywhere and, given that we must be exposed to them somewhat frequently, if not all the time, why is it that we can't na...Continents played key role in collapse and regeneration of Earth's early greenhouse, geologists say
...untains and the mountains were becoming lower. But volcanoes were still spewing into the atmosphere large amounts of carbon from recycled oceanic crust. ''So eventually the carbon dioxide level climbs again,'' Lowe says. ''It may never return to its full glorious 70 degrees Centigrade level, but ...Volcanic soils yield new clues about the emergence of powerful chiefdoms in Hawaii
...ficult to farm." Volcanic history The idea that volcanoes played a crucial role in early Hawaiian agricultur...l, the Hawaiian archipelago is actually a chain of volcanoes that has been forming for more than 30 million years. The volcanic islands are created when the Pac...