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4 March 2021

Measuring Ambient Ocean Sound During the COVID-19 Pandemic

An expanded nonmilitary hydrophone network provides new opportunities to understand the variability and trends of ocean sound and the effects of sound on marine organisms.
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Climate Change
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1 March 2021

Improving Access to Paleoclimate Data

Paleoclimate databases are powerful tools for improving climate models. The recent work of speleothem researchers offers lessons on creating a lasting database and fostering the needed mindset.
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26 February 2021

Advances in Satellite Data for Wildfire Smoke Forecasting

Observations from the newest geostationary Earth-observing satellites are offering valuable views of fire progression and smoke plume development and helping simulate impacts from large wildfires.
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23 February 2021

Assessing Social Equity in Disasters

Natural hazard impacts and resources allocated for risk reduction and disaster recovery are often inequitably distributed. New research is developing and applying methods to measure these inequities.
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Natural Hazards
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22 February 2021

Amateur Radio Operators Help Fill Earthquake Donut Holes

Ham radio networks gear up to provide real-time, on-the-ground information about earthquake shaking and damage when other communication pathways are knocked out of commission.
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18 February 2021

The Imminent Calving Retreat of Taku Glacier

Long an anomaly among glaciers, advancing while most others shrank, Taku Glacier is starting to succumb to climate change, offering an unprecedented look at the onset of tidewater glacier retreat.
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5 February 2021

Geological Surveys Unite to Improve Critical Mineral Security

A three-nation consortium is pooling geological expertise and resources to address vulnerabilities in supplies of these crucial natural resources.
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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
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28 January 2021

Geoscientific Monitoring of Olkaria’s Geothermal Motor

In situ geophysical measurements from Kenya’s Olkaria geothermal field, integrated with remote sensing and meteorological data, shed light on subsurface energy transport to and from the surface.
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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
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26 January 2021

A New Era of Debris Flow Experiments in the Oregon Woods

What do a backhoe, expanding foam, half-ton concrete blocks, and a 100-meter-long hillslope slide have in common? All were part of reviving the U.S. Geological Survey’s experimental debris flow flume.
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25 January 2021

Solving Shared Problems at the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus

A 15-year-old partnership among Chinese and U.S. scientists studying challenges in our food, energy, and water systems has revealed that solutions are best achieved through international collaboration.
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