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Researchers explore how grazing animals impact their ecosystems—and the climate
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Critical Role of Grazing Animals in an Ecosystem

by S. Witman 30 January 201820 October 2021

Scientists model the effect of horses, cattle, sheep, and goats on local environments and global climate.

Workers in Mexico City search for survivors after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook on 19 September 2017.
Posted inNews

Were Mexico’s September Quakes Chance or a Chain Reaction?

by R. Skibba 30 January 20189 May 2023

Last year, two major earthquakes—one 12 days after the first—shook Mexico. New analysis blames this very unlikely event on chance. But one of the pair may have triggered a third large nearby temblor.

James Reilly, Trump administration pick for USGS director.
Posted inNews

White House Announces Choice to Head U.S. Geological Survey

by Randy Showstack 29 January 20188 November 2021

Observers said the nominee appears to have strong credentials but voiced uncertainty about his management qualifications and noted the challenge of maintaining the agency’s strengths.

Researchers use sounding rockets to measure how Earth’s auroras affect winds in the upper atmosphere.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Sounding Rockets Probe the Northern Lights Above Norway

by E. Underwood 29 January 201824 October 2022

Scientists measure how the aurora affects winds in the upper atmosphere.

New Zealand’s Canterbury coast seen from R/V Tangaroa during the MARCAN program’s controlled-source electromagnetic survey.
Posted inScience Updates

How Offshore Groundwater Shapes the Seafloor

by A. Micallef, J. J. Mountjoy, K. Schwalenberg, M. Jegen, B. A. Weymer, S. Woelz, P. Gerring, N. Luebben, D. Spatola, D. Cunarro Otero and C. Mueller 29 January 20188 November 2021

The MARCAN project, launched last January, is working to fill a gap in our knowledge of how freshwater flowing underground shapes and alters the continental margins.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Plotting the Pliocene Polar Front

by E. Thomas 29 January 201824 January 2024

Understanding changing conditions in the south polar oceans during the warm late Pliocene period may help predict the impact of contemporary warming.

Landsat 8 satellite images of the Grand Canyon.
Posted inNews

Report Recommends Priorities for Earth Observations from Space

by Randy Showstack 26 January 201810 April 2023

The new strategic plan, which builds on earlier road maps for observing the planet, identifies top targets for satellite scrutiny for the next decade.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Estimates of Ozone Transport in Extratropical Cyclones

by William J. Randel 26 January 201829 March 2022

Cross-tropopause ozone transport in midlatitude cyclones, coincident with dry air intrusions, is derived from satellite and reanalysis data organized in cyclone-centric coordinates.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Above and Below: Understanding River-Groundwater Exchanges

by P. Brunner, P. Renard, R. Therrien, C. T. Simmons and Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen 26 January 201819 July 2022

Field data, new technologies, numerical modelling, and geostatistical methods can be combined to improve understanding of the interactions between surface water and groundwater.

Let geoscience data engage your senses in a new way: through the power of music.
Posted inGeoFIZZ

Dropping the Beat with Some Geoscience Data

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 25 January 2018

Listen to the music of the ice, the turning of the planets, the ringing of rings, the rockin’ of quakes, and the mournful tones of global warming.

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