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A Powerful New Tool to Analyze and Calibrate Earth System Models

by P. A. Dirmeyer 6 March 20189 March 2023

Polynomial chaos and Bayesian compressive sensing are applied to a land surface model to understand how large numbers of tunable parameters interact and may be optimized.

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Virtual Poster Showcase Experienced Steady Growth in 2017

Pranoti Asher, Education and Public Outreach Manager for AGU by P. M. Asher and N. Janick 6 March 20187 March 2023

A pilot project for high schools and a geographic information system map, as well as other embellishments, have enhanced a program that enables students to present research electronically.

In preparation for the Stratéole 2 project, a collaboration between France and the U.S., scientists launch a helium balloon
Posted inScience Updates

Around the World in 84 Days

by J. S. Haase, M. J. Alexander, A. Hertzog, L. Kalnajs, T. Deshler, S. M. Davis, R. Plougonven, P. Cocquerez and S. Venel 1 March 201819 October 2021

In the Stratéole 2 program, set to launch in November 2018, instruments will ride balloons into the stratosphere and circle the world, observing properties of the air and winds in fine detail.

Researchers drill into New Zealand’s Alpine Fault to better understand fault structure and earthquake physics
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Drilling into a Future Earthquake

Alexandra Branscombe by A. Branscombe 26 February 20186 October 2021

Researchers drill into a fault that is anticipated to rupture in coming decades to study fault structure and earthquake physics.

A quadcopter is deployed to collect visual and thermal imagery along Onondaga Creek in Syracuse, N.Y.
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Drones in Geoscience Research: The Sky Is the Only Limit

by C. Kelleher, C. A. Scholz, L. Condon and M. Reardon 22 February 201821 October 2021

Here are six ways that drones are making their way into geosciences research and industry through innovative applications.

Rock hammer flashdrive
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When Your Weird Science Gets Stopped at Airport Security

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 1 February 201813 October 2022

“Gamma ray spectrometer,” “rock hammer,” and “putty knife” are not phrases that airport security likes to hear.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Space Weather: Exploiting Meteorology’s Toolkit

by Michael A. Hapgood 31 January 20184 May 2022

Space weather forecasting is benefiting, and can benefit much further, from concepts and tools already developed by the global meteorological community.

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Above and Below: Understanding River-Groundwater Exchanges

by P. Brunner, P. Renard, R. Therrien, C. T. Simmons and Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen 26 January 201819 July 2022

Field data, new technologies, numerical modelling, and geostatistical methods can be combined to improve understanding of the interactions between surface water and groundwater.

Connecting data archives and physical samples
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Connecting Scientific Data and Real-World Samples

by S. Cox, J. Klump and K. Lehnert 16 January 201830 September 2021

International Symposium on Linking Environmental Data and Samples; Canberra, Australia, 29 May to 2 June 2017

Participants in the UNOLS Chief Scientist Training Cruise split and examine sediment cores during the 2016 expedition.
Posted inScience Updates

Exploring Methane Gas Seepage in the California Borderlands

by Anastasia G. Yanchilina, S. Yelisetti, M. Wolfson-Schwehr, N. Voss, T. B. Kelly, J. Brizzolara, K. L. Brown, J. M. Zayac, M. Fung, M. Guerra, B. Coakley and R. Pockalny 21 December 201731 July 2023

Early-career scientists aboard the 2016 UNOLS Chief Scientist Training Cruise explored recently reactivated underwater methane seeps in the San Diego Trough.

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