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SOLID EARTH SCIENCES ARTICLES

• Educational Outreach Strategy Involves Students in Earthquake Hazard Research [Earth in Space, March, 1999]
• Students Investigate an Environmental Restoration Site in New Mexico [Earth in Space, November, 1998]
• Sensor Tracks Changes in Earth's Environment and Biosphere From Space A few months ago a sensor began delivering colorful pictures that researchers are using to study everything from gas exchange between the ocean and atmosphere to where the fish are biting. [Earth in Space, February, 1998]
• Remote Sensing with Radar: Seeing Earth in a New Way Peering at the Earth below with a new kind of 20/20 vision, scientists are learning more about the planet from afar than they dreamed possible. [Earth in Space, February, 1998]
• Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing Yields Unprecedented View of Earth from Space Infrared images are being taken from space that cut across many scientific disciplines and have many practical applications. [Earth in Space, February, 1998]
• Breakthrough Made in Dating of the Geological Record [Eos, July 15, 1997]
• Viewing the Morphology of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge From a New Perspective [Eos, July 1, 1997]
• Exotic Fluids in the Exosphere: When Hades Meets Apollo [Eos, June 10, 1997]
• Blasts from the Past Indicate Hazard Level at Yucca Mountain - Is it safe to bury nuclear wastes in the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada? Ground magnetic surveys near the site revealed interesting fault patterns and ancient volcanoes buried beneath deep sediments. These findings will help determine whether local volcanic activity could threaten the facility and future residents who live nearby. [Earth in Space, May, 1997]
• Defining the Subsurface Structure in Earthquake Country - In the Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment, researchers employed air-guns and explosions to study earthquake hazards. Setting off small sources of noise from the Pacific Ocean to the Mojave Desert, they measured how sound vibrations penetrate or bounce off faults and substrata and constructed images of the subsurface structure that may lead to better prediction of earthquakes in Southern California. [Earth in Space, May, 1997]
• Pavlof Darkens the Alaskan Sky - In the sparsely populated wilderness of Alaska, you might think volcanic eruptions would have relatively little impact on civilization. But as those who monitor Alaska's volcanoes know, the threat is very real, and not just to people on the ground.[Earth in Space, April 1997]
• Continental Terraces Hold Clues to the Generation and Preservation of the Stratigraphic Record - [Eos, January 7, 1997].
• "Concrete Testimony to Shifting Latitude of the Tropics - The world's tropics and polar regions are shrinking, and the temperate zones are growing due to normal shifts in Earth's obliquity. [Earth in Space, December 1996]
• Volcanic Eruption at a New Zealand Ski Resort Prompts Reevaluation of Hazards - Researchers are reviewing the 1995 event to help ensure that future volcanic eruptions do not take visitors by surprise.[Earth in Space, November 1996]
• Seismograms Offer Insight Into Oklahoma City Bombings - [Eos, October 8, 1996].
• Large Earthquakes in Northern Europe More Likely Than Once Thought - [Eos, October 15, 1996].
• Shock Therapy: How Earth Responds to Impacts From Outer Space - Long after the dust has settled, scientists studying impact craters on Earth's surface are making some "shocking" discoveries.[Earth In Space, October 1996]
• "Roof of the Earth" Offers Clues About How Our Planet Was Shaped - [Eos, October 1, 1996]
• Problem with the "MAGNETIC" Pole Locations on Global Charts - [Eos, September 3, 1996]
• Multi-Use Seismic Stations Offer Strong Deterrent to Clandestine Nuclear Weapons Testing - Seismic monitoring can be an important deterrent to secret nuclear weapons tests. [Eos. July 30, 1996]
• Aeromagnetic Survey Over U.S. to Advance Geomagnetic Research - A proposed high-altitude survey of the United States offers an exciting and cost-effective opportunity to collect magnetic-anomaly data. [Eos. July 9, 1996]
• Filtered Geosat Altimetry as a Tool for Global Bathymetric Chart Development - Now that the Geosat altimetry and precise orbit information collected during the 1985-1986 Geodetic mission is declassified, the Naval Oceanographic Office is releasing its chart of Geosat altimetry of the world's oceans. [Eos. July 9, 1996]
• Portrait of a Scientist–Inventor - The gravity meters Lucien B. LaCoste invented revolutionized geodesy and gave scientists the ability to precisely measure variations in Earth's gravity from land, water, and space. [Earth in Space. May 1996]
• Unexpected Shock Rocks an "Aseismic" Area - A surprise earthquake struck an area in Greece long considered to be "aseismic." In the aftermath, scientists and government officials are taking a new look at how earthquake risk is calculated. [Earth in Space. March 1996]
• International Group Examines Earthquake Ruptures in Mongolia - Last August 22 foreign scientists, hosted by a team of Mongolian scientists, explored the extraordinarily well preserved surface ruptures of two major Mongolian earthquakes. [Eos. January 30, 1996]
• Anticipating the Successor to Mexico's Largest Historical Earthquake - A large earthquake is expected to strike Jalisco, Mexico, in the next few years as pressure builds to the breaking point along a major fault in the region. [Earth in Space. January 1996]
• Taking Petrologic Pathways Toward Understanding Rabaul's Restless Caldera - Volcanic eruptions broke out in Rabaul, New Guinea, last year for the first time since 1943. The recent eruptions were minor, compared with some of the area's past volcanic activity, but nevertheless, they underscore the need to study and plan for future eruptions. [Earth in Space. January 1996]
• Mauna Loa in Technicolor - At the center of the figure is Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano on Earth. [Earth in Space. January 1996]
• Measuring a Moving Glacier - An Alaskan glacier is under study from a unique vantage point: space. A series of satellites that estimate precise positions on Earth from space, the Global Positioning System, are helping scientists study the the movement of ice and Earth at the surging Bering Glacier. [Earth in Space. November 1995]
• Bering Glacier Resumes Its Surge - Bering Glacier started to surge again in April, following a 7-month period of minor retreat and near-stagnation. [Earth in Space. November 1995]
• Pulling the Rug out From Under California: Seismic Images of the Mendocino Triple Junction Region [Eos, September 19, 1995]
• How Are Geomagnetic Reversals Related to Field Intensity? - For the past 2000 years Earth's magnetic field has been weakening. At the going rate of decay, the north-south magnetic dipole—generated within the convecting metallic fluid of Earth's outer core—would totally vanish, perhaps reversing polarity in the next 2000 years. [Earth in Space. July 1995]
• New Maps of Crust Off Tasmania Expand Research Possibilities - Joint Australian-French program documents Tasmania's geological history, the split between Australia and Antarctica, and climatic change over the last 50 m.y., and also defines Australia's Legal Continental Shelf in compliance with the United Nation's Law of the Sea Convention [Eos. May 16, 1995]
• Global Positioning Finds Applications in Geosciences Research - Continuous global positioning satellite tracking networks are providing basic infrastructure for space-age navigation, surveying, science, engineering, and atmospheric sensing. [Eos. May 2, 1995]
• Kobe Earthquake: An Urban Disaster [Eos. February 7, 1995]
• Scientists Get a Closer Look at Mechanism of Deep Bolivian Quake - New Data on Earth Structure [Eos. January 10, 1995]
• Landers Earthquake: Seeing California Move With Global Positioning Satellites [Eos. May 31, 1994]
• Studying Oceanic Plate Motions with Magnetic Data [Eos. February 1, 1994]
• Study of Recent Tsunamis Sheds Light on Earthquakes [Eos. January 4, 1994]

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