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Crew on the R/V Ocean Starr pulling a discarded net from the Pacific Ocean
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Pacific’s Garbage Hot Spot Holds More Plastic Debris Than Was Thought

by Randy Showstack 22 March 201810 April 2023

A nonprofit that helped to collect data for the research plans to use the study’s findings to help guide it in an upcoming campaign to remove buoyant plastic trash from ocean gyres.

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Stanley “Stan” Ruttenberg (1926–2017)

by E. Zipser 21 March 20185 January 2022

This talented geophysicist, with his love of music, played key roles in the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958) and many other research programs, as well as in organizing a major music festival.

A trilobite fossil from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada.
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Rocks with Soft-Tissue Fossils Share a Mineral Fingerprint

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 20 March 201830 January 2023

Discovering new resting places of these rare and information-rich fossils will be critical to understanding the largest expansion of life in Earth’s history, according to researchers.

Alaska-shaped germs in a petri dish
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Alaska Spotlights Its Health Risks from Climate Change

Laura Poppick, freelance science writer by L. Poppick 19 March 201823 March 2023

In the only Arctic state in the United States, Alaskans have already been affected by health repercussions of warming. More and worse lie ahead, a new state health report says.

Silvertip sharks in Chagos Archipelago
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Nutrient-Rich Water Around Seamounts Lures Top Predators

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 15 March 201825 March 2024

At an Indian Ocean marine refuge, tides drive cold water laden with nutrients onto the tops of underwater mountains, where it sustains a long food chain that culminates in sharks, tuna, and seabirds.

Sea ice at a bay on Joinville Island in Antarctica.
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U.S. Scientists Safely Retrieved from Ice-Bound Antarctic Island

by Randy Showstack 13 March 201810 April 2023

Argentineans came to the aid of stranded scientists.

Map of surface velocity of Antarctica’s ice
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New Maps Highlight Antarctica’s Flowing Ice

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 12 March 20188 February 2023

The maps focus on surface ice velocity, showing how Antarctica’s frozen surface changed over a 7-year period.

James Reilly speaks to a Senate committee on 6 March.
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USGS Nominee Calls Scientific Integrity a High Priority

by Randy Showstack 7 March 201810 April 2023

James Reilly, a former astronaut and petroleum geologist, told senators that resolving USGS budget challenges and maintaining the agency’s core mission are other top priorities.

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Joseph B. Walsh (1930–2017)

by C. H. Scholz, D. L. Goldsby, Y. Bernabé and B. Evans 6 March 20183 October 2022

This world traveler and rugby enthusiast devised theories fundamental to such diverse fields as seismology, oil and gas exploration, and hydrology. He also designed the hull of the Alvin submersible.

Kevin Webster takes cave air measurements
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Some Caves Remove Methane from the Atmosphere, New Tests Reveal

by L. G. Shields 5 March 20182 November 2021

Isotopic signatures pinpoint the sinks and surprising sources of methane in widespread karst caves. Researchers suggest that this type of cave globally removes more methane than it produces.

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