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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.
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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 202223 June 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.

Room-size instruments make up an argon dating lab at Arizona State University.
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Long-Term Planning For Deep-time Labs

Richard Sima, freelance science writer by Richard J. Sima 22 February 202221 March 2023

When directors depart argon labs, what happens to their expensive equipment, skilled staff, and institutional knowledge?

A large, fully loaded container ship arrives at a busy port in California.
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Rising Seas Boost Tsunami Impacts on Distant Shorelines

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 31 January 202231 January 2022

Modeling suggests that rising sea levels will render Southern California ports increasingly vulnerable to waves from distant-source tsunamis.

Ocean thermal energy conversion plant on Kume Island, Japan
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The Century-Old Renewable You’ve Never Heard Of

Mark Betancourt, Freelance Journalist by Mark Betancourt 24 January 20221 June 2023

Ocean thermal energy conversion could power the world’s tropical islands, if it ever gets out of the “innovation valley of death.”

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Using Sound and Vibration Signals to Understand the Subsurface

by Yingping Li, Martin Karrenbach and Jonathan B. Ajo-Franklin 6 January 202210 September 2025

A new book explores Distributed Acoustic Sensing, a technology with a range of applications across geophysics and related fields.

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A Bright, LED-Lit Future for Ocean Sciences

by Collin P. Ward 20 December 202118 April 2022

LEDs have taken over the global lighting market. Now it’s time for this versatile, low-cost, and energy-efficient technology to illuminate oceanic processes.

The ultrahigh-vacuum chamber of an optical clock operated by the National Metrology Institute of Germany. Inside the chamber, strontium atoms are cooled by a laser.
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Build It, and the Science Will Come

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 20 December 202128 July 2022

In January, Eos takes a look at the scientists who know that sometimes the answer to a question is a screwdriver.

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Lasers and Ultracold Atoms for a Changing Earth

by Michel Van Camp, F. Pereira dos Santos, Michael Murböck, Gérard Petit and Jürgen Müller 20 December 20219 March 2023

Applying new technology rooted in quantum mechanics and relativity to terrestrial and space geodesy will sharpen our understanding of how the planet responds to natural and human-induced changes.

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Earthquakes Ripple Through 3D Printed Models of Los Angeles

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 13 December 202127 March 2023

Using stainless steel models, researchers find that high-frequency seismic waves—the most damaging to buildings—are attenuated in the Los Angeles sedimentary basin.

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Scientists Plan a Home Away from Home for Mars Samples

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 8 December 202127 March 2023

The core tubes being collected by the Perseverance rover won’t arrive for years, but NASA and the European Space Agency are outlining needs for a facility to assess their safety and store and distribute them.

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