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E. Deatrick

Elizabeth Deatrick, a science-writing intern at AGU, graduated in 2015 from Boston University with an MS in Science Journalism. She has also interned with the National Audubon Society. Elizabeth writes mostly about geophysics, ecology, and biology.

In tests of the MyShake app, researchers subjected cell phones to simulated earthquakes using a shake table at the University of California, Berkeley.
Posted inNews

Crowdsourced Seismology

by E. Deatrick 26 April 20168 December 2022

The seismologists of the world want to turn you into an earthquake detector.

A wave of mixed-phase clouds composed of ice and supercooled liquid water brushes the peaks of Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps.
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Icy Clouds May Counter Climate Warming Less Than Expected

by E. Deatrick 13 April 201614 February 2023

A new analysis of cloud composition and behavior suggests that scientists have overestimated the ability of a type of mixed-phase ice-and-water cloud to mitigate climate change effects.

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