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JoAnna Wendel is a freelance science writer and cartoonist. She covers topics ranging from the geology of faraway moons to the behavior of animals in our oceans. She served as a staff writer for Eos from 2014 to 2018, then worked in communications in NASA’s Planetary Sciences Division. JoAnna is now freelancing full time as a writer and artist.
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Observing the Birkeland Currents
Scientists use continuous measurements to observe a complicated process in the Earth’s magnetosphere.
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Field Dispatch: Up Close and Personal With a Volcanic Eruption
What’s it like to do field work mere miles away from an erupting volcano?
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Thin Precollision Crust Can Explain Aspects of Indo-Asian Convergence
The paradoxical thickness of the Tibetan Plateau has puzzled scientists for decades. Now new research offers up an explanation for this mystery.
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Pyroxenes Can Be Used to Estimate Upper Mantle Water Content
Scientists suggest using the mineral pyroxene to study the water content of the Earth’s upper mantle.
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Proposed Satellite Would Improve Study of Cloud Physics
Researchers propose a new satellite that would help scientists study how cloud physics is affected by aerosols.
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Decades-Old Sediment Cores Complicate Cascadia Earthquake History
Scientists have long known that the Pacific Northwest is vulnerable to massive earthquakes, but newly unearthed data raises questions about the strength and frequency of these quakes.
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Low Heliosphere Pressure Drives Wide CMEs in Weak Solar Cycles
Why are coronal mass ejections from the current solar cycle wider than others? Researchers investigate.
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Polar Jet Stream Could Reveal Saturn's Rotational Period
Scientists determine the length of a day on Saturn with help from a mysterious atmospheric structure.