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Wired
April 2000
Oliver Morton |
Ice Station Vostok The fast track to the moons of Jupiter - and the key to life on Earth - is a prehistoric lake nearly three miles beneath the Antarctic ice cap.   |
Geotimes
March 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Great Lakes of Antarctica Two "great lakes," each more than 1,000 square kilometers in area and buried deep under Antarctic ice, are giving scientists a new view of the continent and how such large lakes formed there. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2011
Peter Fairley |
Earthquakes Hinder Green Energy Plans Quakes slow geothermal energy, hydropower, and carbon sequestration projects |
Geotimes
April 2007
Sally Adee |
Massive Antarctic Lakes Discovered The recent discovery of a massive "plumbing" system of linked reservoirs 1,000 meters beneath two major ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may help fill out climate change models. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Naomi Lubick |
Glacial earthquakes Seismologists have fingered glaciers as one source of newly discovered "slow" earthquakes. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Sara Pratt |
Pressure Shifts in Yellowstone The 2002 rupture of Alaska's Denali fault triggered more than 250 smaller-magnitude quakes, altering the eruption behavior of many of the park's famed geysers. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Adee & Moore |
In the American Southwest, the Energy Problem Is Water Energy producers on the Colorado River are struggling |
Geotimes
March 2006
Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales. |
Geotimes
October 2004
Jay Chapman |
Melting Glaciers Promote Earthquakes In southern Alaska, melting glaciers heat up the possibility of earthquakes. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Paden et al. |
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar |
Popular Mechanics
March 15, 2010
Trevor Williams |
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2013
Dave Levitan |
Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss |
Geotimes
December 2004
Lisa M. Pinsker |
A Passive Approach to Healthy Oil Production A technology first used to help with mine safety has evolved into a tool for the oil and gas industry, with potential in application for sequestering carbon. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Jeff Wise |
Building Canada's Epic Ice Road The truckers who haul 70-ton rigs hundreds of miles across Canada's frozen lakes aren't afraid of much except warm weather. |
Scientific American
July 2008
Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict. |
Geotimes
March 2004 |
The Global Lakes Drilling Effort A long history of research on relatively young lake basins illustrates the utility of studying lake sediments for information on such diverse topics as past climate, landscape modification, biological evolution, regional tectonics and hydrocarbon formation. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Sara Pratt |
Antarctic Ice Connections The West Antarctic ice sheet contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice. Were it to collapse due to global warming, it would raise global sea level by 5 meters, catastrophically inundating low-lying areas. |
Geotimes
November 2007
Nicole Branan |
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Megan Sever |
Tahoe quakes: business as usual? Scientists say they have figured out what caused two major events that shook the Sierra Nevada region in recent months. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Krista West |
Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve |
Geotimes
April 2003
Greg Peterson |
Debating the fastest evolution on record A new study presents a new example of how geology and evolutionary biology can lead to different conclusions. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Michael Milstein |
6 Radical Solutions for U.S. Southwest's Peak Water Problem Increased usage and years of drought are diminishing the Colorado River's flow. States that rely on that water are forming strategies to deal with the problem. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
New Madrid Fault Dying? A series of devastating earthquakes that altered the course of the Mississippi River in the early 19th century may have been among the last gasps of an old, dying fault system, a controversial new study suggests. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Great Salt Lake Spiral Submerged The elements may momentarily triumph over Robert Smithson's 1970 sculpture, as rising water levels threaten to obscure the famous piece known as Spiral Jetty. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Naomi Lubick |
California Earthquake Roundup Several significant earthquakes have struck California this week, ranging from 4.9 to 7.2 in magnitude, with two off the coast of Northern California and two in the Los Angeles basin. Scientists say that they are mostly unrelated. |
Popular Mechanics
August 28, 2008
Paul Tolme |
As Geothermal Energy Heats Up, 5 Next-Gen Projects Take Shape Unlike wind and solar power, which are intermittent, geothermal energy is base-load power -- available 24/7, 365 days a year. And the price of geothermal energy is stable, unlike economically volatile coal and natural gas. |
