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Graph showing range of water levels in the Great Lakes and the potential benefit from risk management strategies including insurance and dredging
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Analysis Helps Manage Risks to Shipping in the Great Lakes

by Jim Hall 11 May 202018 October 2022

Modeling of mysteriously fluctuating water levels in the Great Lakes has helped to optimize the prices of shipping insurance contracts along with investments in dredging navigation channels.

Scientists lie on a portable drone landing pad at a field site outside Nome, Alaska.
Posted inOpinions

Building a Culture of Safety and Trust in Team Science

by C. M. Iversen, W. R. Bolton, A. Rogers, C. J. Wilson and S. D. Wullschleger 21 April 202012 January 2023

An Arctic research team of 150 members that implemented a culture of safety, inclusion, and trust as the foundation for cross-disciplinary science shares lessons from its experiences.

Illustration of how “electron wings” form around a spacecraft traveling through a plasma
Posted inResearch Spotlights

“Electron Wings” Can Interfere with Spacecraft Measurements

by Mark Zastrow 26 February 202030 September 2021

Spacecraft sometimes produce a form of electrical self-interference as they zip through plasmas in space—a previously unreported effect that may be lurking in old data sets.

Plane flying into sunset
Posted inEditors' Vox

Space Weather Aviation Forecasting on a Global Scale

by D. J. Knipp and Michael A. Hapgood 14 October 201913 October 2021

Under a new mandate, consortia of the world’s major space weather centers will disseminate new space-weather advisories for civil aviators representing a significant change-of-state for space weather.

White woman looks into microscope on research ship
Posted inFeatures

Women in Oceanography Still Navigate Rough Seas

by Jenessa Duncombe 6 June 20193 February 2023

Female scientists have weathered bias, lack of support, and unsafe work environments since the dawn of oceanography. Could recent initiatives, technology, and awareness chart the way to safer waters?

Scientist in a hard hat with a rover in an underground mine
Posted inFeatures

Underground Robots: How Robotics Is Changing the Mining Industry

by Adityarup Chakravorty 13 May 201928 July 2022

From exploring flooded sites to providing alerts, use of robotics aims to “increase the arsenal of tools that can help miners work more safely and efficiently.”

A tornado in Arkansas in 2013
Posted inNews

Westward Expansion, Technology, and Tornado Fatalities

by Katherine Kornei 6 March 201916 September 2022

By mining records from 1808 to 2017, researchers can now show just how many lives have likely been saved by technology like radar.

Grocery store carts full of bottled water
Posted inResearch Spotlights

What Do People Drink When They Think Their Tap Water Isn’t Safe?

by Terri Cook 6 March 201918 October 2022

An analysis of nationwide housing data shows that minority households disproportionately bear the multibillion-dollar economic burden that comes from believing their water is unsafe.

Earthquakes, like two that struck Kumamoto, Japan, within 28 hours in April 2016, cause varying levels of damage to buildings
Posted inNews

Damage Assessment by Laser Could Focus Postearthquake Response

by L. G. Shields 6 February 20189 December 2022

Airborne lidar surveys taken before and after a powerful 2016 earthquake in Japan revealed the potential for such surveys to identify hard-hit buildings quickly. 

Vortex of coal ash swirls in the Dan River at Danville, Va., following the release of 39,000 tons of ash and 27 million gallons of ash pond water from a leaking buried storm sewer.
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Group Touts “Beneficial” Coal Ash Recycling

by Randy Showstack 5 December 20171 October 2021

An industry group says recycling coal ash, the second-largest U.S. waste stream, helps the environment and economy. Recycling has a role but also raises concerns, environmentalists argue.

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