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Brian May Receives 2019 Athelstan Spilhaus Award
Brian May was awarded the 2019 Athelstan Spilhaus Award at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 11 December 2019 in San Francisco, Calif. The award is given “for the enhancement of the public engagement with Earth and space sciences through devoting portions of their career conveying to the general public the excitement, significance, and beauty of Earth and space science.”
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Set to Music, Exoplanets Reveal Insights on Their Formation
Sonification hints at how some Kepler planets may have been configured in the late stages of their development.
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Rock On with a Group That Makes Music from Geophysical Data
Musical numbers include an Italian fault and a tour of an African greenstone belt.
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Amoeba People Find a Niche for Nerdy Science Music
The group’s rocking new album, The Fossil Record, includes a genre-bending set of songs that helps make science foot-tapping fun.
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Amoeba People Sing Quirky Tunes About Geoscience
A whimsical backstory identifies the musicians as aliens from the planet Crouton sent to Earth to transmit scientific information back home in song.
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The Melodies of Monsoons: Weather in Indian Classical Music
Western composers evoke nature's fury with orchestral music that imitates the sounds of weather. Indian composers depict the monsoon rains in more abstract terms with the classical raga system.
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Musical Composition Conveys Climate Change Data
A student at the University of Minnesota communicates climate change science in an innovative way.