Author Profile: J Wendel

Publications from J. Wendel

News 15 February 2018

Five Takeaways from Trump’s Proposed Budget for NASA

Exploration and privatization dominate the president’s proposed budget for the space agency in the 2019 fiscal year, whereas a major cut to a flagship mission surprises scientists.

Geology & Geophysics

News 7 February 2018

Tyler Prize Honors Two Leaders in Marine and Climate Science

Biological oceanographers Paul Falkowski and James McCarthy helped revolutionize the world’s understanding of Earth’s changing climate, both past and present.

Geology & Geophysics

GeoFIZZ 1 February 2018

When Your Weird Science Gets Stopped at Airport Security

“Gamma ray spectrometer,” “rock hammer,” and “putty knife” are not phrases that airport security likes to hear.

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Climate Change

News 19 January 2018

Global Average Temperatures in 2017 Continued Upward Trend

Even when the warming from El Niño is removed, 2017 ranks among the hottest years on record.

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Geology & Geophysics

GeoFIZZ 9 January 2018

A Window into the Emerging Anthropocene…Through Art

Want a snapshot of how humans have been changing their landscapes since the Industrial Revolution? Look at artwork at a local museum, one geoscientist says.

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Geology & Geophysics

News 2 January 2018

Read Them Again: Eos’s Most Viewed Stories of 2017

From mesmerizing maps to glacial floods and massive earthquakes, here’s a look back on last year’s most popular stories.

Geology & Geophysics

GeoFIZZ 29 December 2017

If Scientists Had a Time Machine: No. 1

Where would you go?

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Planetary Sciences

News 27 December 2017

Scientists Discover Stromboli-Like Eruption on Volcanic Moon

Jupiter’s moon Io is known for its lava fountains and roiling lava lakes, but scientists had never seen such an intense eruption in their data until now.

Education

GeoFIZZ 18 December 2017

Sketch Your Science: Our Guesses About Your Sketches

Eos staff do their best to guess what scientists were drawing on the Sketch Your Science wall at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting in New Orleans, La.

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Geology & Geophysics