Study shows continuing impacts of Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Findings reveal that restoration of marsh vegetation is key to overall recoveryCredit: © D. Johnson/VIMS. Nine years ago tomorrow--April 20, ...
Tag: Geology/Soil
Data mining digs up hidden clues to major California earthquake triggers
Comprehensive new earthquake catalog includes 10 times more quakes than previously identified, with a more detailed picture of stresses and ...
Amazonian soils mapped using indicator species
Credit: Gabriela Zuquim Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental ...
Small fossils with big applications — the BP Gulf of Mexico time scale
New study published in Geological Society of America Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: Geologic time scales are critical to understanding the ...
Bacterial mix helps predict future change
Credit: © 2019 KAUST Reproduced under a Creative Commons license 4.0 from reference 1 A controlled, laboratory approach, along with ...
Mississippi State University row crop short course presentations available online
Credit: Mississippi State University St. Paul, MN (March 28, 2019)--The 2018 Mississippi State University (MSU) Row Crop Short Course, held ...
Dr. Kelly Dorgan receives prestigious CAREER Grant from National Science Foundation
Credit: The Sea Lab at Dauphin Island Dr. Kelly Dorgan of The Sea Lab at Dauphin Island and the University ...
Solving the mystery of fertilizer loss from Midwest cropland
Credit: Bruno Basso Farmers can't predict their annual corn harvest with certainty, but with the help of new research from ...
Historic logging site shows first human-caused bedrock erosion along an entire river
Credit: Sarah Schanz/Indiana University Geologic time is supposed to be slow, and the most solid object should be bedrock. But ...
New evidence suggests volcanoes caused biggest mass extinction ever
Mercury found in ancient rock around the world supports theory that eruptions caused 'Great Dying' 252 million years ago.Credit: Margaret ...
Necrophagy: A means of survival in the Dead Sea
UNIGE researchers have found that bacteria can survive in the sediments of the Dead Sea at a depth of over ...
New research supports volcanic origin of Kiruna-type iron ores
The origin of giant apatite-iron oxide ores of the so-called 'Kiruna-type' has been the topic of a long standing debate ...
New research adds to work of Prandtl, father of modern aerodynamics
Pitt's Inanc Senocak and postdoc Cheng-Nian Xiao publish findings in Journal of Fluid MechanicsCredit: Inanc Senocak PITTSBURGH (April 11, 2019) ...
Where will flooded fields best replenish groundwater?
A new model based on remote sensing data could help zero in on where water managers can replenish aquifers by ...