Author Profile: K M S Cartier

Kimberly M. S. Cartier

Publications from K. M. S. Cartier

News 16 September 2019

Vintage Radar Film Tracks What’s Beneath Antarctic Ice

The newly digitized data double the timescale of ice-penetrating radar monitoring in some of the fastest changing areas of Antarctica.

Biogeosciences

News 12 September 2019

Is Chicago Water Pollution Halting a Silver Carp Invasion?

Pollution is definitely not the solution to stopping invasive silver carp, researchers assert. But cleaner waters could affect the invasion front.

Planetary Sciences

News 11 September 2019

Water Found in Small, Habitable Zone Planet’s Atmosphere

K2-18b is warm, has an atmosphere, and has water vapor. But it’s no Earth 2.0.

Geology & Geophysics

News 10 September 2019

Our Seismic Solar System

Earth’s not the only thing that shakes and quakes and goes around the Sun. Not by a long shot.

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Biogeosciences

GeoFIZZ 6 September 2019

Extreme Life and Where to Find It

Life finds a way in the most extreme environments on Earth and sparks the imagination about far-off places where we may yet find it.

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Climate Change

White man holds sign outside CNN climate town hall reading “Climate Emergency”

News 5 September 2019

Scientists Praise Urgency, Aggressive Plans in Climate Town Hall

Democratic candidates detailed their plans to address the “existential crisis” of our time. Climate scientists were happy to have a forum—and happier that it was substantive.

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Planetary Sciences

A red-orange star with dark circles in front

News 28 August 2019

Hunting for Planets Around Old, Anemic Stars

Can a star make planets with 10% of what the Sun had to work with? A synergy between two powerhouse survey telescopes is helping astronomers find that answer.

Planetary Sciences

A rocky planet near a red star with two stars in the background

News 19 August 2019

Nearest Star System May Have a Second Planet

The exoplanet candidate, tentatively named Proxima c, would be a frozen snowball.

Geohealth

Indigenous Brazilian people protest with signs

News 9 August 2019

Murders of Environmentalists Have Doubled in 15 Years

Indigenous people defending their lands are particularly at risk, and watchdog groups warn that criminalization of environmental activism is also on the rise.

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Climate Change