Research Spotlights

Biogeosciences

14 January 2015

Colorado Hydrocarbon Leakage Rates Much Higher Than Reported

Airborne measurements put methane emissions from Colorado's Denver-Julesburg Basin at 12 to 26 tons per hour.

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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

13 January 2015

How Do Aquatic Plants Direct Where Other Stalks Grow?

By changing the flow of the river, aquatic plants affect the distribution of nutrients on the riverbed.

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Geology & Geophysics

10 January 2015

Satellite Imaging Improves Study of Sinking River Deltas

Researchers know that the Ganges-Brahmaputra river delta is sinking. Now they have an accurate reading on the rate of subsidence.

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Geology & Geophysics

8 January 2015

Trace Element Holds the Key to Deformation of Continents

Studies of titanium in quartz grains could help scientists gain a better understanding of our planet's shifting surface.

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Ocean Sciences

7 January 2015

Satellite Salinity Data Improves Gulf Stream Eddy Detection

A pronounced contrast in salinity between the Gulf Stream and current rings makes satellite salinity measurements valuable.

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Ocean Sciences

5 January 2015

Southwest’s Four Corners Home to Largest U.S. Methane Signal

Satellite data reveal fossil fuel harvesting operations in the Southwest's Four Corners are generating the country's largest methane signal viewable from space.

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Natural Hazards

31 December 2014

Ancient Earthquakes Made an Island Rise and Fall

Observations track elevation changes of an island in the Kodiak Archipelago to past ruptures of the Alaska-Aleutian megathrust fault.

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Climate Change

31 December 2014

Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide Hit a Minimum 5,000 Years Ago

A new ice core measurements-based record of a climate-active gas shows variability on millennial timescales.

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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

31 December 2014

Mekong River Dams Could Bring Future Food Security Woes

The rapid development of dams in the Mekong River Basin could pose a threat to future environmental stability.

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology

31 December 2014

Archean Rocks in the Acasta Gneiss Complex

Studying Archean-age gneissic and schistic rocks in northwestern Canada, researchers determined that the source of these rocks formed 4.3 billion years ago.

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