Author Profile: M C Morton

Publications from M. C. Morton

Ocean Sciences

Black sea bass swimming above a coral reef

News 2 May 2019

Global Warming Hits Marine Life Hardest

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

Atmospheric Sciences

News 29 April 2019

California Heat Waves Triggered by Pacific Thunderstorms

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

Geology & Geophysics

A computer simulation’s rendering of the interior of the Earth’s core showing magnetic field lines being stretched by turbulent convection.

News 29 April 2019

New Model Shines Spotlight on Geomagnetic Jerks

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

Planetary Sciences

A reflected-light image of the comet-containing meteorite

News 24 April 2019

Meteorite’s Hidden Treasure: A Comet

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

Ocean Sciences

A false-color satellite image of melting glaciers in the Russian Arctic

News 16 April 2019

Fast-Melting Mountain Glaciers Speed Up Sea Level Rise

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

Geology & Geophysics

A man kneels next to a road cracked by the 1928 San Jacinto earthquake.

News 12 April 2019

Reassessing California’s Overdue Earthquake Tab

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.

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Biogeosciences

A white man in a fedora looks into the gaping maw of a T. rex fossil.

News 10 April 2019

King of the Tyrannosaurs Goes on Display

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

Climate Change

A series of petroglyphs of animal, human, and plant images on a cliff wall

News 8 April 2019

European Contact with the Americas May Have Triggered Global Cooling

The loss of precontact agricultural communities to genocide and disease may have led to massive reforestation, a dip in carbon dioxide, and one of the coldest snaps of the Little Ice Age.

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Ocean Sciences