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Point Sal on the California coastline in an aerial view of the study site for the 2017 Inner Shelf Dynamics Experiment.

Untangling a Web of Interactions Where Surf Meets Coastal Ocean

by J. Lerczak, J. A. Barth, S. Celona, C. Chickadel, J. Colosi, F. Feddersen, M. Haller, S. Haney, L. Lenain, J. A. MacKinnon, J. MacMahan, K. Melville, A. O’Dea, P. Smit, A. Waterhouse and T. Xu 2 May 201911 January 2022

In 2017, an ocean research team launched an unprecedented effort to understand what drives ocean currents in the overlap regions between surf zones and continental shelves.

A pathway leads to a community water treatment plant in rural southeastern Puerto Rico.

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Sharing Data Helps Puerto Ricans Rebound After Hurricane Maria

by J. Hart, C. Bandaragoda and G. Ramirez-Toro 30 April 20198 October 2021

Recent hurricane seasons left many communities wondering if this is the new normal. Digital infrastructure designed for citizen data collection may help these communities increase resilience.

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Linking Observations and Modeling of Flat-Slab Subduction

by J. E. Saylor, E. Finzel and M. Jadamec 26 April 201918 January 2022

The Center for Tectonics and Tomography: Workshop on Flat Slab Subduction; Houston, Texas, 18–20 January 2019

Leonardo DiCaprio and Earth scientist Piers Sellers discuss NASA’s climate missions.

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Earth Science Is Ready for Preprints

by T. Narock, Evan B. Goldstein, C. A.-L. Jackson, A. A. Bubeck, A. M. L. Enright, J. I. Farquharson, A. Fernández, D. Fernández-Blanco, S. Girardclos, D. E. Ibarra, S. K. Lengger, A. W. Mackay, V. Venema, B. Whitehead and J.-P. Ampuero 23 April 201910 March 2023

The EarthArXiv preprint archive, in operation for almost a year and a half, makes the latest Earth science research available to a wider community.

A large “dent” in Earth’s geoid in the Indian Ocean indicates that less mass is concentrated here than is typical.

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Seismologists Search for the Indian Ocean’s “Missing Mass”

by L. S. Ningthoujam, S. S. Negi and D. K. Pandey 18 April 201928 October 2021

An Indian scientific team set out to sea last year to find clues to the source of an unusually weak gravitational potential in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

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Progress in Ocean Salinity Science

by J. Boutin, G. Reverdin and S. Mecklenburg 16 April 201915 November 2021

2018 Ocean Salinity Science Conference; Paris, France, 6–9 November 2018

High-resolution map of magnetic field variations in Minnesota showing details of the geology underlying glacial deposits.

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Finding the Gaps in America’s Magnetic Maps

by B. J. Drenth and V. J. S. Grauch 16 April 20194 October 2021

A 2017 executive order mandated a plan to evaluate U.S. access to critical mineral resources, but the airborne magnetic survey maps that support this effort are sadly out of date.

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In the Crosshairs: Ancient Rock Art Under Fire

by L. Mol, C. Brassey, L. Clarke, K. Groom and R. King 11 April 201924 February 2022

Editor’s Note: This article has been retracted at the authors’ request. Citation: Mol, L.,Brassey, C.,Clarke, L.,Groom, K., and King, R. (2019), In the crosshairs: Ancient rock art under fire, Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO118409. Published on 11 April 2019. Text © 2019. The authors. CC BY 3.0Except where otherwise noted, images are subject to copyright. Any reuse […]