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Kansas

A river flowing through a forest.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

As the River Flows the Colors Sparkle

by Marguerite A. Xenopoulos 6 August 20245 August 2024

Diving into the science behind river color and its relationship with flow.

Bison roam in a grassland with dead and living trees.
Posted inNews

Kansas Prairie Streams Are Getting Choked, Maybe for Good

by Kimberly Hatfield 6 May 20246 May 2024

A herculean effort to fight back woody plants in the Konza Prairie has largely failed. The outcome shows how difficult it can be to retore these ecosystems.

Outline of states
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States of Mind

by Caryl-Sue Micalizio 27 February 202428 February 2024

Regional programs offer models of success in science education and policy.

A group of people stand in a farm field listening to a field trip guide speak.
Posted inScience Updates

Finding Common Ground in the Field to Inform Science Policy

by Sunday Siomades, Blair Schneider and Andy Connolly 28 November 202327 February 2024

The Kansas Geological Survey’s annual Field Conference takes scientists, producers, legislators, and public officials around the state to spark conversation about natural resources.

A field on a Nebraska farm with a large irrigation arm watering the crop. Grain storage elevators are visible in the background.
Posted inNews

Modeling Groundwater and Crop Production in the U.S. High Plains

by Jady Carmichael 30 November 20208 November 2022

Innovative new research by a team of international scholars borrows modeling methods from ecology and applies them to groundwater sustainability.

Puffy cumulus clouds with a background of blue sky
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Soil Moisture Drives Great Plains Cloud Formation

by E. Underwood 10 September 20198 November 2022

A new study shows that models that reproduce moisture on land are better at accurately recreating cumulus cloud behavior.

Recent studies show that fluid injection wells like this one can affect seismic activity far from the injection site.
Posted inFeatures

Fluid Injection Wells Can Have a Wide Seismic Reach

by S. L. Peterie, R. D. Miller, R. Buchanan and B. DeArmond 17 April 201813 January 2022

High-volume fluid injection can cumulatively increase underground pore pressure and induce earthquakes in regions unexpectedly far from injection wells, recent Kansas studies show.

Posted inOpinions

My Life in Baseball and Earthquakes

by R. Buchanan 25 September 20151 April 2024

How earthquakes interrupted a Royals game and thrust me into a whirlpool of politics, media, and law.

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Decoding Crop Evapotranspiration

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