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Mary Caperton Morton

Mary Caperton Morton is a freelance science and travel writer specializing in geophysics, hydrology, and mountaineering. Her book, Aerial Geology: A High Altitude Tour of North America’s Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters and Peaks, was published by Timber Press in 2017. In her 13 years as a seasonally nomadic freelancer, she has hiked in all 50 states; climbed hundreds of mountains; and written for numerous publications including Eos, Earth, Science News, The Last Word on Nothing, and her blog, Travels with the Blonde Coyote. When she’s not at the keyboard, she’s outside, exploring the Sierras from her home base in the foothills of Sequoia National Forest in California.

Six people fan out in a line, searching the ground for rocky meteorites in the Atacama Desert
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Oldest Meteorite Collection Found in World’s Oldest Desert

by Mary Caperton Morton 14 June 20194 October 2021

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

An ancient pine perched on top of a rock outcrop
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Tree Rings Record 19th-Century Anthropogenic Climate Change

by Mary Caperton Morton 8 May 2019

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.
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Mysterious Coral Reef Halos Can Be Seen from Space

by Mary Caperton Morton 3 May 2019

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.

Black sea bass swimming above a coral reef
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Global Warming Hits Marine Life Hardest

by Mary Caperton Morton 2 May 2019

The lack of thermal refugia in the ocean means marine life has nowhere to escape from rising sea temperatures.

An almond orchard with trees in bloom
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California Heat Waves Triggered by Pacific Thunderstorms

by Mary Caperton Morton 29 April 20196 October 2021

New link may offer 5-week lead time on predicting extreme heat in California’s fruit belt.

A computer simulation’s rendering of the interior of the Earth’s core showing magnetic field lines being stretched by turbulent convection.
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New Model Shines Spotlight on Geomagnetic Jerks

by Mary Caperton Morton 29 April 201920 December 2021

Scientists get one step closer to being able to predict jerks—notoriously capricious changes to Earth’s geomagnetic field detectable by satellites.

A reflected-light image of the comet-containing meteorite
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Meteorite’s Hidden Treasure: A Comet

by Mary Caperton Morton 24 April 20194 October 2021

A fragment of a comet found hidden inside a meteorite is offering new insights into the dynamics of our young solar system.

A false-color satellite image of melting glaciers in the Russian Arctic
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Fast-Melting Mountain Glaciers Speed Up Sea Level Rise

by Mary Caperton Morton 16 April 20192 September 2022

Satellites spy on remote alpine glaciers, producing more accurate—and higher—estimates of ice loss over time.

A man kneels next to a road cracked by the 1928 San Jacinto earthquake.
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Reassessing California’s Overdue Earthquake Tab

by Mary Caperton Morton 12 April 20196 October 2021

Paleoseismic records show that the current 100-year hiatus since the last major event on the San Andreas, San Jacinto, and Hayward Faults is unprecedented in recent geologic history.

A white man in a fedora looks into the gaping maw of a T. rex fossil.
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King of the Tyrannosaurs Goes on Display

by Mary Caperton Morton 10 April 20194 October 2022

The biggest, oldest T. rex found to date shows how big tyrannosaurs could get.

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