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Galápagos Islands

Several people sit and stand around a large map of the seafloor on a table in laboratory space.
Posted inScience Updates

Observing a Seismic Cycle at Sea

by Margaret Boettcher, Emily Roland, Jessica Warren, Robert Evans and John Collins 7 March 202325 May 2023

Scientists organized a trio of expeditions to document the buildup of stress leading to a large earthquake on a seafloor fault, developing innovations for successful seagoing research in the process.

Two people, flanked by two observers, stand among a field of boulders, guiding a large hand drill through the length of a white fossilized coral.
Posted inNews

El Niño Varies More Intensely Now Than in the Past Millennium

by Luis Melecio-Zambrano 15 December 20221 February 2023

Researchers found evidence for a strengthening El Niño in living and fossilized Galápagos corals.

In the humid highlands of San Cristóbal Island, researchers take soil samples from a pit.
Posted inNews

The Galápagos Islands: The Ultimate Outdoor Soil Science Laboratory

by DJ McCauley 28 March 202228 March 2022

A new study has spurred further research into the impacts of soil formation on modern-day problems like heavy metal contamination in agricultural soils.

A group of researchers attend to seismic instruments at Sierra Negra in the Galápagos.
Posted inNews

Observing a Galápagos Volcano from Buildup to Eruption

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 26 March 202127 October 2021

Insights from a 13-year monitoring program of Sierra Negra—one of the many volcanoes that dot the Galápagos Islands—shed light on the volcanic evolution of basaltic eruption.

Kathy Crane instrument
Posted inNews

Podcast: Rifts Beneath the Ocean Floor

by J. Speiser 25 February 20194 October 2022

In the latest episode of its Centennial series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun features the pioneering work of a deep-sea explorer.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Cooling Galápagos Sea Surface Temperatures Affect Local Penguins

by David Shultz 23 November 201512 January 2022

The Galápagos cold pool is expanding northward as a result of climate change, and local penguin populations are rising.

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