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  • Volcanoes Have Shifted Asian Rainfall

    Defying Models, Particles Make Some Regions Drier, Others Wetter

  • Measuring the Ice From a Bird’s Eye View!

    Measuring the Ice From a Bird’s Eye View!

    Operation IceBridge Antarctica ramps up for a second year of ice surveys. Originating from Chile, a series of airborne missions will be flown almost daily from the airbase in Punta Arenas.

  • Study Affirms Gulf Oil Spill’s Vastness

    First Independent Measure of Well Employs New Imaging Method

  • Study Adds New Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended

    New Zealand Glaciers Melted as European Glaciers Briefly Expanded

  • Earth Institute Scientists Drill Into the Oil Spill

    Earth Institute Scientists Drill Into the Oil Spill

    Earth Institute scientists have begun research into the Gulf oil spill’s physical and ecological impacts, both on land at sea. While much attention has focused on surface oil washing up along the shores of Gulf coast states, one cruise starting in mid-August will study the location and magnitude of subsurface oil plumes, and their effects…

  • Core of the Matter

    Core of the Matter

    A final note (for now) on the expedition to recover ice cores from the top of Puncak Jaya in Papua, Indonesia: the cores arrived safely on Thursday, July 22, at Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar Research Center, and are now in a special freezer. In coming months, the team hopes to extract and interpret climatic…

  • Converging Weather Patterns Caused Last Winter’s Huge Snows

    A Warming World Can Still See Severe Storms

  • Ice on Ice

    Ice on Ice

    I have reached Jakarta, and so have the ice cores, which are being kept frozen while awaiting air shipment to the United States. The rest of the team has already returned to their homes. Next for me: back to sea level, on two research cruises that will add oceanographic information to the data we gathered on Puncak Jaya.…

  • John Diebold, 1944-2010

    Advanced the Use of Sound Waves to Explore the Seabed

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  • Volcanoes Have Shifted Asian Rainfall

    Defying Models, Particles Make Some Regions Drier, Others Wetter

  • Measuring the Ice From a Bird’s Eye View!

    Measuring the Ice From a Bird’s Eye View!

    Operation IceBridge Antarctica ramps up for a second year of ice surveys. Originating from Chile, a series of airborne missions will be flown almost daily from the airbase in Punta Arenas.

  • Study Affirms Gulf Oil Spill’s Vastness

    First Independent Measure of Well Employs New Imaging Method

  • Study Adds New Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended

    New Zealand Glaciers Melted as European Glaciers Briefly Expanded

  • Earth Institute Scientists Drill Into the Oil Spill

    Earth Institute Scientists Drill Into the Oil Spill

    Earth Institute scientists have begun research into the Gulf oil spill’s physical and ecological impacts, both on land at sea. While much attention has focused on surface oil washing up along the shores of Gulf coast states, one cruise starting in mid-August will study the location and magnitude of subsurface oil plumes, and their effects…

  • Core of the Matter

    Core of the Matter

    A final note (for now) on the expedition to recover ice cores from the top of Puncak Jaya in Papua, Indonesia: the cores arrived safely on Thursday, July 22, at Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar Research Center, and are now in a special freezer. In coming months, the team hopes to extract and interpret climatic…

  • Converging Weather Patterns Caused Last Winter’s Huge Snows

    A Warming World Can Still See Severe Storms

  • Ice on Ice

    Ice on Ice

    I have reached Jakarta, and so have the ice cores, which are being kept frozen while awaiting air shipment to the United States. The rest of the team has already returned to their homes. Next for me: back to sea level, on two research cruises that will add oceanographic information to the data we gathered on Puncak Jaya.…

  • John Diebold, 1944-2010

    Advanced the Use of Sound Waves to Explore the Seabed