Shales at All Scales: Exploring Coupled Processes Workshop; Santa Fe, New Mexico, 9–11 June 2015
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Satellite Data for Water Resources Management
2015 NASA Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources Team Meeting; College Park, Md., 3–4 March 2015
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Aurora Painting Pays Tribute to Civil War's End
Frederic Edwin Church's 1865 arctic landscape, Aurora Borealis, is a beautiful depiction of nature. It might also be a memorial reflection on the end of the war.
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Kepler: A Giant Leap for Exoplanet Studies
NASA's low-cost space telescope opened up a universe of possibilities for scientists who scour space in search of planets—and possibly life.
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Forecasting and Communicating Risk of Rip Currents, Wave Runup
NOAA Coastal Hazards Resilience Workshop—Rip Currents and Wave Runup; Suffolk, Virginia, 14–16 April 2015
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Seismic Hazard Assessment: Honing the Debate, Testing the Models
Earthquake experts with opposing views found common ground working around a table and on a hiking trail.
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Building Sandbars in the Grand Canyon
Annual controlled floods from one of America's largest dams are rebuilding the sandbars of the iconic Colorado River.
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Water Levels Surge on Great Lakes
The recent 2-year surge represents one of the most rapid rates of water level change on the Great Lakes in recorded history and marks the end of an unprecedented period of low water levels.
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Protecting the Science of Climate Change
A scientist recalls the politically motivated editing of climate change science in government reports, offering insight into why the reality of climate change was hard for officials to accept.
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Coastal Fog, Climate Change, and the Environment
To climate scientists, marine fog's physical opacity symbolizes how much remains to be discovered about the atmospheric phenomenon.