Author Profile: K M S Cartier

Kimberly M. S. Cartier

Publications from K. M. S. Cartier

News 20 September 2017

Pluto’s Features Receive First Official Names

Names of mountains, plains, valleys, and craters honor human and technological pioneers, Pluto scientists, and underworld mythology from around the world.

Planetary Sciences

News 15 September 2017

Diamonds Really Do Rain on Neptune, Experiments Conclude

Researchers subjected hydrocarbon samples in a laboratory to Neptune-like pressures. The samples, reminiscent of molecules found in the ice giant’s atmosphere, compressed into nanodiamonds.

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Space Science & Space Physics

News 8 September 2017

Largest Flare of Past 9 Years Erupts from Sun

A massive flare and blast of charged particles toward Earth may disrupt satellites and communications and push auroras toward lower latitudes through tomorrow, according to space weather experts.

Planetary Sciences

Ruins of the Temple of the Jaguar under the stars.

News 8 September 2017

Ancient Maya May Have Foreseen Meteor Showers

Modern astronomical techniques have uncovered clues to a possible facet of Mayan astronomy from nearly 2 millennia ago not found in surviving records.

Climate Change

Satellite imagery shows that Greenland’s wildfire has gone out

News 29 August 2017

Southern Greenland Wildfire Extinguished

Scientists are still investigating the cause, fuel source, and overall impact of the weeks-long blaze.

Geology & Geophysics

A broken angel statue lies among other damage on the roof of the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D. C.

News 18 August 2017

Quakes Pack More Punch in Eastern Than in Central United States

A new finding rests on the recognition that fault types differ between the two regions. It helps explain prior evidence that human-induced quakes and natural ones behave the same in the nation’s center.

Education

Busy college campus on a fall afternoon.

Feature 14 August 2017

Gearing Up for Fall Semester

Geoscience professors explain how they use their summertime to get ready for teaching, researching, and mentoring when the school year begins again.

Atmospheric Sciences

A multicopter fitted with a retroreflector to receive a laser frequency comb signal.

News 31 July 2017

Airborne Laser Spectroscopy System Can Map Atmospheric Gases

A new versatile spectroscopy system could create ultraprecise maps of Earth’s atmosphere, detect methane emission sources, and scan for chemical weapons.

Natural Hazards

News 26 July 2017

Storm Model Foresaw Tornado Precursor Hours Before Twister Hit

The experimental Warn-on-Forecast project calculates probabilities of severe weather within at-risk areas smaller than those targeted by current forecasting models.

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Science Policy & Funding

Map of Washington, D. C., around Capitol Hill from 1920, in the Historical Map Collection of the USGS Library in Reston, Va.

News 18 July 2017

USGS Library Cuts Would Harm Research, Education, Say Scientists

Possible budget drop would halt access by researchers, educators, and the public to nondigitized collections and services of U.S. Geological Survey librarians, according to the agency.

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Publications from K. M. S. Cartier

Pluto’s Features Receive First Official Names

Diamonds Really Do Rain on Neptune, Experiments Conclude

Largest Flare of Past 9 Years Erupts from Sun

Ancient Maya May Have Foreseen Meteor Showers

Southern Greenland Wildfire Extinguished

Quakes Pack More Punch in Eastern Than in Central United States

Gearing Up for Fall Semester

Airborne Laser Spectroscopy System Can Map Atmospheric Gases

Storm Model Foresaw Tornado Precursor Hours Before Twister Hit

USGS Library Cuts Would Harm Research, Education, Say Scientists

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New Earth and Space Science Preprint Server to Be Launched

AGU Revises Its Integrity and Ethics Policy

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Tropical cyclone intensification trends during satellite era (1986–2010)

Sources of cosmic dust in the Earth's atmosphere

Modeling observations of solar coronal mass ejections with heliospheric imagers verified with the Heliophysics System Observatory

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