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Making Sense of the Great Barrier Reef’s Mysterious Green Donuts

by Jody Webster, Mardi McNeil, Helen Bostock, Luke Nothdurft and Maria Byrne 9 March 20239 March 2023

Researchers set sail to the Great Barrier Reef to study how ring-shaped algae deposits formed and evolved, what feeds them, and the diversity of creatures that call them home.

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Observing a Seismic Cycle at Sea

by Margaret Boettcher, Emily Roland, Jessica Warren, Robert Evans and John Collins 7 March 20237 March 2023

Scientists organized a trio of expeditions to document the buildup of stress leading to a large earthquake on a seafloor fault, developing innovations for successful seagoing research in the process.

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Strategies for Successful Collaborative Writing

by Eric M. D. Baer, Karen M. Layou, R. Heather Macdonald and Sharon L. Zuber 3 March 20233 March 2023

Lessons learned and applied during a recent workshop can help authors, from students to seasoned professionals, work together to produce more equitable and effective writing.

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How Hail Hazards Are Changing Around the Mediterranean

by Sante Laviola, Giulio Monte, Elsa Cattani and Vincenzo Levizzani 27 February 202327 February 2023

A new method for studying hailstorms from space offers more consistent and more complete views of how and where hail forms, and how climate change might influence hail’s impacts in the future.

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Mentorship Builds Inclusivity and Belonging in the Geosciences

by Melissa A. Burt, Rebecca T. Barnes, Sarah Schanz, Sandra Clinton and Emily V. Fischer 26 January 202326 January 2023

Four evidence-based approaches implemented through an innovative mentoring program have succeeded at improving retention rates of undergraduate women in the geosciences.

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Engineering with Nature to Face Down Hurricane Hazards

by Krystyna Powell, Safra Altman and James Marshall Shepherd 5 January 202323 February 2023

Natural and engineered, nature-based structures offer promise for storm-related disaster risk reduction and flood mitigation, as long as researchers can adequately monitor and study them.

An artist’s rendering of North America in the weeks following the Chicxulub impact shows freezing conditions and skies hazy with sulfate aerosols.
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A Post-Impact Deep Freeze for Dinosaurs

by Aubrey Zerkle 2 September 202222 February 2023

New research supports the hypothesis that dinosaurs were done in by climate change after an asteroid impact kicked up a massive plume of sulfur gases that circled the globe for several decades.

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A Time Capsule from the Early Solar System Is En Route to Earth

by C. W. V. Wolner 4 August 20224 August 2022

After an exciting encounter with asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS-REx mission team looks forward to hitting pay dirt when a hefty sample of ancient planetesimal material is delivered to Earth next year.

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For Western Wildfires, the Immediate Past Is Prologue

by Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig, Cenlin He and Fei Chen 13 July 202222 December 2022

A new machine learning approach trained on winter and spring climate conditions offers improved forecasts of summer fire activity across the western United States.

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“Landslide Graveyard” Holds Clues to Long-Term Tsunami Trends

by Suzanne Bull, Sally J. Watson, Jess Hillman, Hannah E. Power and Lorna J. Strachan 3 June 20221 August 2022

A new project looks to unearth information about and learn from ancient underwater landslides buried deep beneath the seafloor to support New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards.

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