Author Profile: T Cook

Terri Cook

Biography

Terri Cook is an award-winning freelance writer whose career has focused on exploring and explaining the 4.5-billion-year-history of the remarkable planet we live on. Cook, who has an M.S. degree in Earth science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, writes about geology, ecology, and the environment—as well as wine, tea, hiking, and biking—for a diverse group of publications, including Eos, Scientific American, NOVA Next, Science News, and EARTH magazine, as well as Avalon Travel and numerous other travel-related publications. Her reporting has taken her to 25 states and 20 countries scattered across 5 continents, from the depths of the Grand Canyon to the sandy Australian Outback to the mist-shrouded summit of Bali’s Mount Batur. As the coauthor of three popular guidebooks, including Hiking the Grand Canyon’s Geology and Geology Underfoot Along Colorado’s Front Range, Cook gives frequent presentations about geology and science communication. She is the recipient of a 2016 European Geosciences Union Science Journalism Fellowship and is based in beautiful Boulder, Colo.

Publications from T. Cook

Ocean Sciences

Research Spotlight 11 August 2017

New Baseline for Understanding Arctic Oxygen and Nutrient Fluxes

Significant spatial and temporal patterns emerge from the first pan-Arctic comparison of oxygen demand in marine sediments.

Planetary Sciences

Flux towers, such as this one in a Maryland corn field, provide continuous measurements of evapotranspiration.

Research Spotlight 8 August 2017

Blending Satellite Data to Monitor Agricultural Water Use

A new technique that merges data gathered by multiple satellites can be used to monitor agricultural water use and improve water quality assessments around the globe.

Natural Hazards

Researchers draft a new model to better simulate deadly pyroclastic flows.

Research Spotlight 3 August 2017

A Promising New Tool for Forecasting Volcanic Hazards

A new model that simulates the behavior of surging ash clouds may help scientists to better predict the hazards associated with the deadliest type of volcanic flows.

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Biogeosciences

Satellite image of land surface in South Asia, observed in August 2004, from the Blue Marble data set.

Research Spotlight 1 August 2017

The Competing Climate Effects of Elevation and Albedo

Variations in surface reflectivity are as important as surface elevation changes in determining regional climate at nonpolar latitudes, according to a new modeling study.

Climate Change

New research suggests North American Arctic waters are neither source nor sink for greenhouse gasses

Research Spotlight 1 August 2017

A Benchmark for Trace Greenhouse Gases in the Arctic Ocean

Samples of seawater from the North American Arctic show that the region is neither a major source nor sink of methane and nitrous oxide to the overlying atmosphere.

Mathematical Geophysics

Researchers demonstrate how two popular software packages can be used together for better efficiency

Research Spotlight 17 July 2017

A Powerful New Tool for Research

A novel interface allows users of MATLAB and GMT, two software packages widely used by the geoscience community, to simultaneously harness the capabilities of both products.

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology

Impact craters on Mercury’s surface reveal how fast the planet’s topography is changing

Research Spotlight 26 June 2017

How Quickly Is Mercury’s Surface Evolving?

New measurements of impact craters on Mercury’s smooth plains suggest that the topography of the solar system’s innermost planet is changing at twice the rate of landforms on the Moon.

Geology & Geophysics

Researchers use an integrated approach to spot variations in sea level rise along the East Coast.

Research Spotlight 23 June 2017

Accounting for Accelerated East Coast Sea Level Rise

An analysis of tide gauge records and physical models shows acceleration of sea level rise on the East Coast due to melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is especially pronounced south of 40°N latitude.

Climate Change

Researchers assess how a changing climate will influence ocean upwelling

Research Spotlight 15 June 2017

How Will Climate Change Affect the California Current Upwelling?

The results of new simulations that account for internal climate variability contrast with previous projections of how this vital West Coast current will respond to anthropogenic warming.

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology

Researchers look at silicon carbide under heat and pressure to better understand its behavior in a planet mantle

Research Spotlight 15 June 2017

Lab Tests Probe Carbon Planets’ Inner Dynamics

Thermal convection in deep interiors could be more vigorous in carbide planets than in comparably sized silicate planets, according to new high-pressure measurements of silicon carbide.

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Publications from T. Cook

New Baseline for Understanding Arctic Oxygen and Nutrient Fluxes

Blending Satellite Data to Monitor Agricultural Water Use

A Promising New Tool for Forecasting Volcanic Hazards

The Competing Climate Effects of Elevation and Albedo

A Benchmark for Trace Greenhouse Gases in the Arctic Ocean

A Powerful New Tool for Research

How Quickly Is Mercury’s Surface Evolving?

Accounting for Accelerated East Coast Sea Level Rise

How Will Climate Change Affect the California Current Upwelling?

Lab Tests Probe Carbon Planets’ Inner Dynamics

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