Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet and will be updating Scientific American readers regularly. (scientificamerican.com)
The Hawaii research relies on a new seismic technique for detecting aligned flows of rock that has yet to be verified, says marine geophysicist Cecily Wolfe of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C.. However, the Iceland study is «very clear and compelling,» she says, and consistent with a deep mantle origin for the plume. (sciencemag.org)
In 1991 Delaney, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, went out for a drink one evening with Alan Chave, an ocean engineer and marine geophysicist based at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. (discovermagazine.com)