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Publications from M. C. Morton

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

Photo of a jetty and ocean beach

News 30 July 2019

Huge Aquifer Imaged off the Atlantic Coast

Offshore aquifers may be a common feature along passive continental margins around the world.

Geohealth

A small rowboat sits on the edge of Lake Sinclair, one of five lakes in north central New Brunswick surveyed for the new study on DDT contamination.

News 23 July 2019

The Toxic Legacy of DDT Lives On in Remote Canadian Lakes

DDT and its breakdown products permeate lake sediments decades after the pesticide was banned.

An instrument with many sampling tubes is pulled out of the ocean at Station ALOHA. The samples will be analyzed for nutrient content, microbial diversity, and metabolic activity.

News 22 July 2019

Far-Flung Dust Storms Deliver Nutrient Boosts to North Pacific

Barren marine deserts bloom seasonally with iron infusions from Asian dust storms.

A map of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico in 2018 depicts low-oxygen areas in red, orange, and yellow off the coast of Louisiana.

News 11 July 2019

Gulf Dead Zone Looms Large in 2019

A new forecast predicts widespread hypoxia after a wet Midwest spring.

Geohealth

A manmade lake in front of a power plant sits behind a chain link fence designed to keep boats away from the site.

News 8 July 2019

A North Carolina Lake’s Long Legacy of Coal Ash Spills

A new case study suggests that Sutton Lake has been contaminated by multiple coal ash spills, most of them apparently unmonitored and unreported.

Atmospheric Sciences

Aerial photo of a scientific facility on the coast

News 19 June 2019

Banned CFC Emissions Tracked to Eastern China

A new study indicates that better atmospheric monitoring networks are needed to enforce the Montreal Protocol.

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

Man collects water from a pipe to put in a test tube.

News 18 June 2019

Ancient Water Underlies Arid Egypt

A hidden trove of groundwater is left over from the last ice age.

Planetary Sciences

Six people fan out in a line, searching the ground for rocky meteorites in the Atacama Desert

News 14 June 2019

Oldest Meteorite Collection Found in World’s Oldest Desert

Rare 2-million-year record reveals the meteorite flux rate.

An ancient pine perched on top of a rock outcrop

News 8 May 2019

Tree Rings Record 19th-Century Anthropogenic Climate Change

Paleoclimate records, observational data, and climate modeling capture the influence of human activity on temperature seasonality.

Rings of bare sand surround dozens of individual coral reefs in the Red Sea.

News 3 May 2019

Mysterious Coral Reef Halos Can Be Seen from Space

Grazing rings around reefs have the potential to be used as a tool for monitoring reef health, but first, scientists have to figure out what factors govern halo size differences.