Environment & Geology

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Geotimes April 2006 Margaret Anne Baker	Energy Efforts on Tap Developing gas hydrates as a key domestic energy source remains a long-term plan, compared to near-term return on oil shales and the estimated recoverable oil in ANWR. But with politics in the mix, who knows? Maybe the hydrates will come to market before oil flows from ANWR after all.
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Ann Carpenter: Searching for Gold With domestic minerals becoming more attractive, Nevada's gold deposits have refueled geologic searches there, prompting the return of many mining and exploration geologists to their home turf -- including Carpenter, one of the leading women in a field generally dominated by men.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	Roundabout Way of Profiling Earth's Atmosphere Here's how new methods of measuring temperature, pressure, and humidity using GPS signals should improve weather forecasting.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Earthquake Jostles Iran After an evening of precursory tremors, a magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck western Iran today.
Geotimes March 2006 Megan Sever	Students Sink Into the Edmund Fitzgerald The Edmund Fitzgerald famously sank in bad weather on Nov. 10, 1975. No one knows exactly what sank her, but new model simulations -- being used in a weather and climate class to draw students' interest -- are showing more precisely what conditions the ship may have encountered.
Chemistry World March 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Unexpected Photochemistry Unearthed Soil uses sunlight to produce chemicals that can break down pollutants in the lowest layers of the atmosphere.
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al.	Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales.
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Ice Hunter: Q&A With Lonnie Thompson An interview with glaciologist and Byrd Polar Research Center scientist Lonnie Thompson about what it mean to hunt ice and about some his current work.
Geotimes March 2006 Megan Sever	Gassy Eruption in Oklahoma In December, a normally peaceful creek in Oklahoma became a raging torrent of mud, gas and water, when gas escaped from a blowout at a nearby natural gas reservoir that Chesapeake Energy had just found. The estimated blow to the company is likely in the millions of dollars.
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Great Lakes of Antarctica Two "great lakes," each more than 1,000 square kilometers in area and buried deep under Antarctic ice, are giving scientists a new view of the continent and how such large lakes formed there.
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