Top geology award goes to Ian Dalziel of The University of Texas at Austin
Credit: Ian Dalziel Ian W.D. Dalziel, a professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at ...
Tag: Geophysics/Gravity
The anatomy of a planet
ETH researchers analyse marsquakesCredit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Since early 2019, researchers have been recording and analysing marsquakes as part of ...
RAS launches new multi-disciplinary journal
Credit: J. Tennyson The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first new journal in ...
Solar radio signals could be used to monitor melting ice sheets
Credit: Image credit: Sean Peters The sun provides a daunting source of electromagnetic disarray - chaotic, random energy emitted by ...
Physicists describe sun’s electric field
Credit: Jasper Halekas lab, University of Iowa As the Parker Solar Probe ventures closer to the sun, we are learning ...
Sea-level rise may worsen existing Bay Area inequities
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Rather than waiting for certainty in sea-level rise projections, policymakers can plan now for future coastal flooding ...
Continental pirouettes
Supervolcano fed from Earth's mantle caused crustal plates to rotateCredit: Alisha Steinberger The plates of the Earth's crust perform complicated ...
Q-CTRL awarded $3.5 million grant from Australian government for space-based quantum sensors
Company to expand the development and manufacture of advanced sensors for climate data monitoring, mining, defense applications and moreCredit: Q-CTRL ...
New study helps explain ‘silent earthquakes’ along New Zealand’s North Island
Seamounts offer clue to solving a tectonic puzzleCredit: Christine Chesley, using GeoMapApp and data from William Ryan et al., Geochemistry, ...
Changes in Earth’s orbit enabled the emergence of complex life
Credit: University of Southampton Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that changes in Earth's orbit may have allowed ...
Underground fiber optic sensors record sounds of COVID lockdown, reopening
Credit: Patrick Mansell, Penn State In March 2020, daily life in the United States changed in an instant as the ...
Boring to study slow earthquakes
Data from boreholes in plate boundaries could explain slow earthquakesCredit: © 2021 JAMSTEC-IODP Slow earthquakes are long-period earthquakes that are ...
Research shows Alaska infrastructure at risk of earlier failure
Credit: Drone photo by Soraya Kaiser; illustration distributed under Creative Commons 4.0 International Roads, bridges, pipelines and other types of ...
Crustal block tectonics offer clues to Venus’ geology, study finds
New study that includes contributions by Baylor planetary geophysicist Peter James, identifies previously unrecognized pattern of tectonic deformation on VenusCredit: ...
Numerical study first to reveal origin of ‘motion of the ocean’ in the straits of Florida
Scientists identify mechanisms of instability responsible for the formation of sub-mesoscale eddiesCredit: Florida Atlantic University/Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Ocean currents ...
Subsurface geophysics is key to geological carbon dioxide storage
Using unique 3D imaging technology to find a negative carbon solutionCredit: University of Houston A crucial step in sequestering carbon ...
Balanced rocks set design ground motion values for New Zealand dam
Credit: Mark Stirling For the first time, researchers have used precariously-balanced rocks to set the formal design earthquake motions for ...
CAPPA students win national environmental design challenge
UTA student teams take first place, honorable mention in EPA competitionCredit: UT Arlington Student teams from The University of Texas ...
Machine learning model doubles accuracy of global landslide ‘nowcasts’
Credit: Credits: NASA Every year, landslides - the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope - cause thousands ...
The rocky road to accurate sea-level predictions
Dirt and water under Greenland control future seaCredit: Henning Åkesson The type of material present under glaciers has a big ...
