Author Profile: K M S Cartier

Kimberly M. S. Cartier

Publications from K. M. S. Cartier

A dark wooden gavel rests on a sound block on a light blue background.

News 23 July 2021

Climate Litigation Has a Big Evidence Gap

Climate-related lawsuits don’t often quantitatively link the defendant’s greenhouse gas emissions to the impacts on the plaintiff. Better lines of communication between climate scientists and climate lawyers could help bridge that gap.

Space Science & Space Physics

The supergiant Betelgeuse glows red and orange against a dark, starry background. The star’s surface is mottled and emits a faint reddish glow representing its stellar wind. A dark cloud of dust partially obscures the star’s lower left region.

News 30 June 2021

When Betelgeuse Won’t Explode, You Need a Big Telescope to Prove It

Thanks to last-minute telescope time, researchers pieced together the sequence of events that caused Betelgeuse’s Great Dimming last year.

Geohealth

una ilustración de árboles más altos que la ciudad

Feature 17 June 2021

Aumento de la equidad en los espacios verdes de la ciudad

No todos los residentes citadinos tienen el mismo acceso a los beneficios que brindan los espacios verdes. Para abordar esa inequidad se requiere la participación de la comunidad en cada etapa, desde la planificación hasta el desarrollo y la gestión.

Planetary Sciences

An image of Venus in visible light with swirls of clouds ranging from white to tan to light orange.

News 1 June 2021

Fifteen Years of Radar Reveal Venus’s Most Basic Facts

Venus’s heavy atmosphere tugs the planet’s surface enough to change the length of its day by up to 21 minutes.

Geohealth

An illustration of trees towering over a city

Feature 21 May 2021

Growing Equity in City Green Space

City residents don’t all have the same access to the benefits of green space. Addressing that inequity requires community engagement at every stage from planning to development to management.

Ocean Sciences

In the foreground, a group of narwhals, some with long spiral tusks, breaches the ocean surface in a gap between sea ice. Sea ice in the background is patchy, and a group of mountains sits on the distant horizon.

News 19 May 2021

Narwhal Tusks Record Changes in the Marine Arctic

This new paleorecord can help scientists better understand how climate change and human activity are changing marine mammals’ environments and habits.

Education

A smartphone on a white background shows an image of the Sun just after totality during the August 2017 total solar eclipse. The Sun’s corona appears as bright white wisps and beams around the black circle of the Moon. Along the right edge of the black circle, a string made of bright points of sunlight shines through the ragged edge of the Moon’s disk in a phenomenon known as Baily’s beads.

News 7 May 2021

Making an Eclipse an Inclusive Multisensory Experience

New tools are helping make solar eclipse experiences and research accessible to people who are blind or low vision, communities often excluded from historically visually based sciences like astronomy.

Planetary Sciences

A large magma furnace pours a mixture of silicate and metallic lava onto a flat surface, with a pool of semicooled lava flowing. The lava is black, orange, yellow, and silver.

News 21 April 2021

Imagining What a Metal Volcano Would Look Like

Large-scale lava experiments are helping scientists imagine how metallic lava would flow across and shape a landscape, either on Earth or on a distant asteroid.

Planetary Sciences