Mountain Beltway | 21 January 2023
Plate Tectonics: a very short introduction, by Peter Molnar
Callan Bentley
This slim volume (130 pages of ~10 point type) is the 425th in Oxford University Press's vast series of dense little...
AGU Fall Meeting 2021 | 15 December 2021
Plume spreading test case for ocean models
Vera Fofonova + Burchard + Sidorenko ...
We present a test case of river plume spreading to evaluate numerical methods used in ocean modeling. It includes an estuary-shelf system whose dynamics combine nonlinear...
AGU Fall Meeting 2021 | 15 December 2021
BALBOA First Test Flight – Experience and Lessons
Xiaoyan Zhou + Alexander M Czajka + Christopher Geach ...
BALBOA (BALloon‐Based Observations for Sunlit Aurora) is a NASA-supported balloon project for auroral investigation. The project is a pathfinder mission to explore auroral...

From The Prow | 9 June 2022
AGU and the Seismological Society of America update comprehensive nuclear-test ban treaty position
In April, AGU’s Board approved minor updates to the position statement entitled, “The capability to monitor the comprehensive...
AGU Fall Meeting 2021 | 16 December 2021
Testing Physics and Statics Based Hybrid ETAS Models
Shubham Sharma + Nandan + Sebastian Hainzl
Currently, the Epidemic Type Aftershock Sequence (ETAS) model is state-of-the-art for forecasting earthquakes. In most of its applications, aftershocks are isotropically distributed...