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Ocean Sciences

News 26 March 2020

Leveraging Satellite Sensors for Oil Spill Detection

By using multiple remote sensors, scientists can quickly estimate the nature and thickness of oil spills—important factors for containment efforts.

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Atmospheric Sciences

News 11 March 2020

Researchers Quantify a Seeded Snowpack

In Idaho, three hour-long cloud-seeding events created the snow equivalent of about 282 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of water.

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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

News 18 February 2020

River Ice Is Disappearing

Over the past 3 decades, the persistence of river ice has decreased by almost a week. The decrease in ice has important implications for ecology, climate, and the economy.

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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

News 11 February 2020

The Give and Take of Mercury in Glacial Landscapes

As glacial ice melts, toxic mercury is released into the environment. But a new study shows vegetation may be an effective cleanup crew.

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Geology & Geophysics

News 19 December 2019

What Lies Beneath Is Important for Ice Sheets

New research reconstructing the topography of Antarctica shows that the continent has 25% less land above sea level than when ice first started to accumulate 34 million years ago.

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Geology & Geophysics

News 19 December 2019

Finding Faults in Our Past: Uncovering the Messina Earthquake

The source of the deadly 1908 Italian earthquake may finally be identified, thanks to a fresh look at the geomorphology of the Strait of Messina.

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Geohealth

News 20 November 2019

Some Communities Feel the Effects of Air Pollution More Than Others

A new study compares exposure to power plant emissions among communities based on race, income, and geography. Black Americans are most at risk.

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Geohealth

News 19 November 2019

Fugitive Gas Abetted by Barometric Pressure

Barometric pressure, in addition to factors such as lithology and the depth of the water table, can influence patterns of natural gas that escapes to subsurface soils.

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology

News 15 November 2019

Sparks May Reveal the Nature of Ash Plumes

In lab experiments and models, researchers uncover how ash can affect the standing shock waves of erupting volcanoes. Their findings may lead to new predictions of volcanic ash hazards.

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Geology & Geophysics

News 25 October 2019

Could Seismic Networks Reveal Hard-to-Detect Nuclear Tests?

In the age of monitoring nuclear weapons testing, existing regional seismic networks may be a key to discovering small, undetected explosions around the world.

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