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Ranch near Anza, Calif.
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Wind-Triggered Ground Shaking Masks Microseismicity

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 20 August 201913 January 2022

Ground motion caused by gusts of wind can drown out signals from the smallest earthquakes, potentially confusing earthquake detection algorithms.

Scientist holding a magnetic instrument over a rock
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Scientists Who Selfie from the Field

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 10 July 20198 March 2022

How did the research trip go? Better check the selfies—I mean, field log.

Photo of rocky hot springs covered by yellow microbial mats
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Microbes Spotted in “Polyextreme” Hot Springs

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 24 June 20194 January 2023

Hot springs that are as acidic as battery acid are home to single-celled microorganisms that may indicate that life could have been sustained on ancient Mars.

Satellite image of a city between a volcano and a lake
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Eruption in El Salvador Was One of the Holocene’s Largest

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 5 June 201914 September 2022

Roughly 1,500 years ago, the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption blanketed Central America in ash and likely displaced Maya settlements, new research shows.

Men working on a makeshift platform in front of a populated valley
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Afghanistan’s Blob Hunters

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 3 June 201919 October 2021

How a first-of-its-kind team of Afghan scientists and engineers helped make a monolithic discovery.

Black-and-white photo of unsmiling white explorers at the South Pole
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Podcast: A Tale of Two Journeys

by Lauren Lipuma 20 May 201920 April 2022

In the latest episode of its Centennial series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun tells the story of two parties journeying to the South Pole in 1911 and the extraordinary impact that weather had on their travels.

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The Search for the Severed Head of the Himalayas

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 25 April 201926 October 2022

To unearth the very first sediments to erode from the Himalayas, a team of scientists drilled beneath the Bay of Bengal.

Citizen Scientist Inspects gray Northern Fulmar carcass
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Science in This Century Needs People

by J. K. Parrish 22 April 20197 March 2023

An ecologist built an army of beach surveyors over 20 years and now has the world’s largest data set of marine bird mortality informing climate change and disaster studies.

A horizon on the ocean
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Ice Drove Past Indo-Pacific Climate Variance

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 2 April 20192 March 2023

Researchers used both terrestrial and marine proxy data to reconstruct the dramatic and dynamic climatic changes.

R/V Sally Ride arrives in Seattle, Wash., after a cruise to Global Station Papa near the Alaska Gyre in the North Pacific.
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Strategies for Conducting 21st Century Oceanographic Research

by A. Doyle, D. J. Fornari, E. Brenner and A. P. Teske 26 February 201914 January 2022

Planning a research cruise requires extensive coordination among research teams, ship operators, funding agencies, logistics companies, and international government entities.

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