Environment & Geology

Magazine articles on environmental science and geology.

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Geotimes February 2007 Richard J. Murnane	Science, Catastrophe Risk Models and Insurance An appreciation of how scientific research is used in the insurance industry's catastrophe risk models provides some insight on the relationship between geoscience and insurance.
Geotimes February 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Susan Cannon: Watching for Flowing Mud This USGS geomorphologist is working both on mapping and developing a landslide warning system for wildfire-stripped regions that have become susceptible to catastrophic debris flows.
Geotimes February 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Geomedia Books: Mining for Information: Q&A with Tom Henry about Following the Boulder Train... Mark Twain's Lost Cement Mine no longer lost?...
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Alberto Enriquez	Early Warning For Earthquakes Although evidence that electromagnetic events precede quakes is mounting quickly, the main theory to explain that evidence has had a gash in it the size of the San Andreas Fault. Teasing out the physics behind radio anomalies.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Glenn Zorpette	Christian Antenor-Habazac: Under The Volcano This technical manager in Guadeloupe is responsible for the design, installation and maintenance of the radio-based sensor networks that monitor the region's seismicity that would give officials warning of impeding volcanic eruptions.
Wired February 2007 Michael Behar	Reservoir Logs A submersible robot called the Sawfish can harvest healthy timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green.
Geotimes January 2007 Sally Adee	Anti-Icers Make Airport Runoff Toxic Researchers examining the environmental harm done by airplane de-icing and anti-icing fluid runoff have found that such runoff from airports located near bodies of water -- including 45 of the 50 busiest airports in the US -- could spell trouble for aquatic ecosystems.
Smithsonian February 2007 Virginia Morell	Ahead in the Clouds The no-nonsense atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon helped patch the ozone hole. Now, as a leader of a major United Nations report -- out this month -- she's going after global warming.
Geotimes January 2007 Lisa Rossbacher	Words, Words, Words Geologists use lots of specialized words, and, befitting a science that covers the entire planet, the words come from all over the globe as well.
Chemistry World January 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Water Surprise for Atmospheric Scientists Lone water molecules can catalyze reactions between atmospheric gases, scientists have confirmed, throwing a wrench in the works of supposedly simple atmospheric chemistry.
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