• About
  • Special Reports
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Third Pod from the Sun
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
  • AGU.org
  • AGU Publications
    • AGU Journals
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
  • Career Center
  • AGU Blogs
  • Join AGU
  • Give to AGU
  • About
  • Special Reports
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Third Pod from the Sun
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
Skip to content
Eos

Eos

Science News by AGU

Sign Up for Newsletter

apps & software

We need to holistically design numerical toolboxes to ensure accuracy, transparency, and replicability in Earth sciences.
Posted inOpinions

It’s Time to Shift Emphasis Away from Code Sharing

by C. A. Greene and Kaustubh Thirumalai 20 February 201914 January 2022

Building well-documented, citable frameworks for Earth data analysis will encourage scientific replicability by addressing the underlying issues that inhibit code sharing.

Ruzbeh Akbar installs sensors at a SoilSCAPE site in California
Posted inScience Updates

Soil Moisture Data Sets Become Fertile Ground for Applications

by R. Shrestha and A. G. Boyer 4 February 201921 March 2022

An integrated data platform harmonizes many disparate soil moisture data sets to better inform disaster response planners, climate scientists and meteorologists, farmers, and others.

Mantle-derived peridotite xenolith from San Carlos, Arizona, showing green olivine crystals.
Posted inScience Updates

Understanding Electrical Signals from Below Earth’s Surface

by A. Pommier and J. Roberts 19 November 201816 May 2022

A new version of a free Web application (SIGMELTS 2.0) helps Earth scientists interpret electrical anomalies in Earth’s crust and mantle and track the sources of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Geodetic GPS station P311 atop the Sierra Nevada mountains at Coyote Ridge, near Bishop, Calif., elevation 3,699 meters.
Posted inScience Updates

Harnessing the GPS Data Explosion for Interdisciplinary Science

by G. Blewitt, W. C. Hammond and C. Kreemer 24 September 201819 November 2021

More GPS stations, faster data delivery, and better data processing provide an abundance of information for all kinds of Earth scientists.

A new database will help researchers to better model complex fine root ecosystems.
Posted inScience Updates

Better Plant Data at the Root of Ecosystem Models

by M. L. McCormack, A. S. Powell and C. M. Iversen 21 August 201821 March 2022

Version 2 of the Fine-Root Ecology Database is bigger, better, and free to download and use.

Map of a zoned dolomite crystal in a quartz matrix from the Strelley Pool Formation created using GIS software.
Posted inScience Updates

Making Maps on a Micrometer Scale

by B. J. Linzmeier, K. Kitajima, A. C. Denny and J. N. Cammack 17 May 20183 December 2021

Geographic information system software, created for mapping cities and continents, works equally well with the minuscule layers and inclusions that record a crystal’s history.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Thermodynamic Model for Computing Mantle Mineralogy

by M. Walter 16 January 201826 April 2022

A newly developed open-access software package called MMA-EoS can calculate whole mantle mineralogy in multicomponent systems by Gibbs energy minimization.

New software may be an important new tool for better ice sheet modeling
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Open-Source Tool Aims to Boost Confidence in Ice Sheet Models

by Sarah Stanley 5 October 201724 May 2022

The software could help strengthen ice sheet models to provide a better basis for policy decisions.

GeoDeepDive helps geoscientists efficiently discover and leverage the hard-earned data locked in the scientific literature.
Posted inScience Updates

A New Tool for Deep-Down Data Mining

by S. E. Peters, I. Ross, J. Czaplewski, A. Glassel, J. Husson, V. Syverson, A. Zaffos and M. Livny 22 September 20175 May 2022

GeoDeepDive combines library science, computer science, and geoscience to dive into repositories of published text, tables, and figures and return valuable information.

The federal Water Quality Portal gives disparate water quality data sets and resources a home on the Web
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Water Quality Database Offers New Tools to Study Aquatic Systems

by L. Strelich 17 March 20175 May 2022

Researchers assess the federal Water Quality Portal, a Web portal that unites disparate water quality data sets and resources.

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 Older posts

From AGU Journals

MOST SHARED
Earth and Space Science
“Termination of Solar Cycles and Correlated Tropospheric Variability”
By Qi Hu, Zihang Han

HIGHLY CITED
Earth and Space Science
“A new digital bathymetric model of the world's oceans”
By Pauline Weatherall et al.

HOT ARTICLE
JGR Solid Earth
“Slip Characteristics of Induced Earthquakes: Insights From the 2015 M w 4.0 Guthrie, Oklahoma Earthquake”
By Colin N. Pennington et al.


About Eos
Contact
Advertise

Submit
Career Center
Sitemap

© 2022 American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic