Five geoscience organizations recently established an online global mentoring service for their disciplines.
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Ten Everyday Objects That Can Be Used for Science
Need a way to store sediment cores or grind up soil? These scientists have your answer.
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A Powerful New Tool to Analyze and Calibrate Earth System Models
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
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.
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Around the World in 84 Days
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.
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Drilling into a Future Earthquake
Researchers drill into a fault that is anticipated to rupture in coming decades to study fault structure and earthquake physics.
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Drones in Geoscience Research: The Sky Is the Only Limit
Here are six ways that drones are making their way into geosciences research and industry through innovative applications.
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When Your Weird Science Gets Stopped at Airport Security
“Gamma ray spectrometer,” “rock hammer,” and “putty knife” are not phrases that airport security likes to hear.
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Space Weather: Exploiting Meteorology’s Toolkit
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
Field data, new technologies, numerical modelling, and geostatistical methods can be combined to improve understanding of the interactions between surface water and groundwater.