Recent hurricane seasons left many communities wondering if this is the new normal. Digital infrastructure designed for citizen data collection may help these communities increase resilience.
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Linking Observations and Modeling of Flat-Slab Subduction
The Center for Tectonics and Tomography: Workshop on Flat Slab Subduction; Houston, Texas, 18–20 January 2019
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Earth Science Is Ready for Preprints
The EarthArXiv preprint archive, in operation for almost a year and a half, makes the latest Earth science research available to a wider community.
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Seismologists Search for the Indian Ocean’s “Missing Mass”
An Indian scientific team set out to sea last year to find clues to the source of an unusually weak gravitational potential in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
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Progress in Ocean Salinity Science
2018 Ocean Salinity Science Conference; Paris, France, 6–9 November 2018
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Finding the Gaps in America’s Magnetic Maps
A 2017 executive order mandated a plan to evaluate U.S. access to critical mineral resources, but the airborne magnetic survey maps that support this effort are sadly out of date.
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In the Crosshairs: Ancient Rock Art Under Fire
Editor’s Note: This article has been retracted at the authors’ request. Citation: Mol, L.,Brassey, C.,Clarke, L.,Groom, K., and King, R. (2019), In the crosshairs: Ancient rock art under fire, Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO118409. Published on 11 April 2019. Text © 2019. The authors. CC BY 3.0Except where otherwise noted, images are subject to copyright. Any reuse […]
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Understanding Past Changes in Southern Ocean Sea Ice
C-SIDE Workshop; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 24–26 October 2018
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Fiber-Optic Networks Find a New Use as Seismic Sensor Arrays
Distributed Acoustic Sensing: Principles and Case Studies; Washington, D.C., 9 December 2018
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Putting the Cloud to Work for Seismology
The cloud infrastructure developed in the business community has made access to cluster computing possible for even the smallest research groups, enabling new kinds of research workflows in geophysics.