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A school of anchovies swims in shallow water in the Bahamas.
Posted inNews

Tiny Creatures May Play a Difficult-to-Detect Role in Ocean Mixing

by Carolyn Wilke 20 May 202220 May 2022

As an idea that began as a joke, critter-driven ocean mixing has long been controversial. Now scientists have caught spawning anchovies causing turbulence and stirring the sea.

The article author, carrying a pack and equipment on her back, hikes across a rocky expanse with mountains and low-lying clouds in the background.
Posted inOpinions

Playing It Safe in Field Science

by Marjorie Cantine 17 May 202217 May 2022

Researchers face many risks when working in the field. Documenting past and future accidents and safety incidents can help identify patterns and practices to keep scientists out of harm’s way.

The Secret Spire rock formation, or hoodoo, in Moab, Utah.
Posted inNews

Rock Music in Utah

by Robin Donovan 3 May 20223 May 2022

Three-dimensional models could help forecast rock tower frequencies—and seismic impacts—around the globe.

A large hot spring bubbles and steams in the mountains of the Tibetan Plateau.
Posted inNews

Hot Springs Suggest How the Tibetan Plateau Became the Roof of the World

by Saima Sidik 20 April 202221 April 2022

Helium isotopes found in water samples provide a snapshot of what lies beneath the plateau and stimulate debate within the geosciences community.

A wide view of snow-covered pines in mountains.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Trees Wearing Accelerometers Help Track Snowstorms

by Rebecca Dzombak 15 April 202215 April 2022

This device allows scientists to measure how much snow is trapped in canopies and predict changes to snowpack—a critical factor in annual water availability.

Two people stand on the edge of a road, looking at a straight crack, representing the surface trace of a fault, the cuts across the road and offsets its painted centerline.
Posted inFeatures

Striking Out into the Field to Track Slip on the Sumatran Fault

by Karen Lythgoe, Umar Muksin, Arifullah, Andrean Simanjuntak and Shengji Wei 16 March 202221 April 2022

An international team overcame many challenges, including from the COVID-19 pandemic, to deploy a dense seismic network along an understudied fault system that poses hazards to millions in Indonesia.

A snowcat plows its way through snow with a rocky ridge in the background.
Posted inScience Updates

Sensing Iceland’s Most Active Volcano with a “Buried Hair”

by Sara Klaasen, Sölvi Thrastarson, Andreas Fichtner, Yeşim Çubuk-Sabuncu and Kristín Jónsdóttir 4 January 202222 April 2022

Distributed acoustic sensing offered researchers a means to measure ground deformation from atop ice-clad Grímsvötn volcano with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions.

Several people aboard a small motorboat in a fjord with a glacial ice cliff in the background
Posted inScience Updates

Arctic Unicorns and the Secret Sounds of a Glacial Fjord

by Evgeny A. Podolskiy 9 December 202116 December 2021

The successful deployment of a seafloor seismometer near the calving front of a Greenland glacier has opened a new avenue to study hidden glacial processes and the behavior of fjord-dwelling wildlife.

Two scientists stand atop a glacier holding cords and ropes, with a view of a fjord, icebergs, and mountains in the distance
Posted inScience Updates

Undertaking Adventure to Make Sense of Subglacial Plumes

by Evgeny A. Podolskiy 18 August 202129 September 2021

Novel observations and inventive analyses of glacial discharge in Greenland have revealed new insights into the irregular and chaotic nature of ice-ocean interactions at glacial calving fronts.

Basalt columns at Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland
Posted inScience Updates

Seafloor Seismometers Look for Clues to North Atlantic Volcanism

by S. Lebedev, R. Bonadio, M. Tsekhmistrenko, J. I. de Laat and C. J. Bean 8 June 202110 November 2021

Did the mantle plume that fuels Iceland’s volcanoes today cause eruptions in Ireland and Great Britain long ago? A new project investigates, while also inspiring students and recording whale songs.

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