A new study by
geoscientists at the University of Liverpool has identified the temperature at which cooling magma cracks to form geometric columns such as those found at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and Devils Postpile in the USA.
Enkelmann, an assistant professor in the University of Cincinnati Department of Geology, was among several UC researchers and thousands
of geoscientists from around the globe presenting their findings at the 2015 Annual Geological Society of America Meeting, Nov.1 - 4, in Baltimore.
New investigations
by geoscientists of the University of Cologne in cooperation with the University of Bonn and the Jacobs University Bremen have shown that large land masses did indeed exist on Earth 2.7 billion years ago
A team of
geoscientists from Novosibirsk, Paris and Potsdam presents these results in the current issue of Science.
Employment prospects
for geoscientists in Australia deteriorated in the last quarter of 2015, with unemployment in the sector reaching a record high.
The AGU report says the academic workforce is top - heavy with «the older generation of
geoscientists who will retire within the next 15 years.»
The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Laffin v. Association of
Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, 2012 ONCA 846 provides a sober reminder to professional regulatory bodies that in assessing applicants for registration, they are confined to assessing applications against the particular requirements set out in their enabling statutes and bylaws.
It can be dangerous rappelling hundreds of feet deep inside caves, but the cave deposits inside are a «Rosetta Stone» for
geoscientists looking to better understand climate history.
In one session, groups such
as Geoscientists Without Borders demonstrated how researchers can use their tools and training to benefit communities in unexpected ways.
Besides the traditional fields mentioned above, you?ll find
geoscientists working in remote sensing, mapping, and geographic information systems (GIS); and they?ll pop up in science administration, environmental consulting, and even museums.
Geoscientists still need to improve current volcanic models before they can be widely applied to real - life volcanoes, but Bato and her colleagues are already beginning to test their methods on the Grímsvötn Volcano in Iceland and the Okmok Volcano in Alaska.
She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America and received the international EO Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award in 2014 and Professional Excellence Award in Academic / Research, Association of
Women Geoscientists in 2015.
Russell Stands - Over-Bull: Building Community and Developing Natural Resources by A. Sasso, 19 August 2005 Russell Stands - Over-Bull is a Native
American geoscientist who returned to the Crow Indian Reservation near Billings, Montana, to help develop tribally - owned natural resources.
That could mean numerous, well - paying opportunities for
young geoscientists entering the field, the workforce report argues:
Many geoscientists help to search for natural resources, such as groundwater, metals, and petroleum.
Two teeth previously unearthed in Sumatra's Lida Ajer cave and assigned to the human genus, Homo, display features typical of Homo sapiens,
report geoscientist Kira Westaway...
The result helps clear up a «particularly enigmatic» ice age, says
geoscientist Lee Kump of Pennsylvania State University.
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A research team led by
geoscientist Matthew Lachniet recently was awarded a three - year National Science Foundation grant to study drought cycles in the Desert Southwest over the last 5 millennia.
We can also look to the past, which is what a group of scientists including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
geoscientist Jeff Severinghaus have done, by drilling a 2.5 - kilometer (1.6 - mile) ice core from some of the oldest ice in Greenland.
People have long known that bat guano — the polite term for what the flying mammals leave on the floors of caves where they live worldwide — is a valuable source of fuel and fertilizer, but now newly published research from University of South Florida
geoscientists show that the refuse is also a reliable record of climate change.
«Oxidized iron deep within Earth's interior: Unexpected finding shows surprises
geoscientists around the world.»
During
what geoscientists called the Miocene Climate Optimum, roughly 15 million years ago when temperatures and CO2 levels were higher than today, the reefs around the Maldives atolls were flourishing.
The decrease in fishery productivity in Lake Tanganyika since the 1950s is a consequence of global warming rather than just overfishing, according to a new report from an international team led by a University of
Arizona geoscientist.
Chinese geoscientists called the current age the «Anthroposphere,» while Andrew Revkin, a New York Times reporter, dubbed it the «Anthrocene» in one book.
Australian geoscientist Phil Cummins told the Associated Press that the threat is not imminent, but he reported in Nature that the crust under the bay is similar in makeup, stress patterns and historical earthquake activity to other areas with recognized potential for killer tsunami quakes.
Morelia Urlaub, a
marine geoscientist at the Geomar Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, voices the obvious question: «How can you fail on a slope that is so flat?»
Female geoscientists applying for selective fellowships are less likely to be described as «brilliant,» «trailblazer,» or «one of the best students I've ever had,» study finds
She prides herself on her analytical skills and says that she and her supervisor, UW
Madison geoscientist John Valley, share the goal of providing researchers with exceptionally accurate analyses.
Geoscientist John Higgins (right) of Princeton University and his team drilled at three sites, hauling tents and equipment, such as a drill bit filled with an ice core.
This event, held in Vienna from 8 - 13 April 2018, brings
together geoscientists from all over the world to talk about topics from all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences.
The result
surprised geoscientists around the globe because there is little opportunity for iron to become so highly oxidized deep below the Earth's surface.
The Assembly provides a forum
where geoscientists from all over the world can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience and is together -LSB-...]
«We think this makes a pretty strong case that the swirls represent remnants of cometary collisions,» said Peter Schultz, a
planetary geoscientist at Brown University.
Two teeth previously unearthed in Sumatra's Lida Ajer cave and assigned to the human genus, Homo, display features typical of Homo sapiens, report
geoscientist Kira Westaway of Macquarie University in Sydney and her colleagues.
Geoscientist David Gallaher works in the DC - 8's former baggage compartment, now fitted with instruments that collect data such as glacial thickness and changes in Earth's gravitational field.
Currently, this is especially true
among geoscientists in the international oilpatch community.
While most
geoscientists rely on ground - based measurements to help interpret the planet's inner manoeuvres and rumblings, the crack squad on the end of the phone thinks it has a faster, better method.