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In New Jersey’s Ancient Rocks, Hunting for Clues to an Earthquake in 2024 

Geologists are combing the New Jersey countryside for signs of earthquakes past and

Was It an Alien Spacecraft—Or a Delivery Truck? 

A Harvard astronomer says a meteor came from beyond our solar system. A new study questions whether his data includes a more obvious

Repairing Tectonic GNSS in Bangladesh’s Tea Region 

The remainder of my fieldwork focuses on the GNSS (the general term for GPS) instruments in eastern Bangladesh to study the tectonics and earthquake

Girl Talk Is Making Waves 

In honor of International Women’s Day, we highlight a new workshop that engages women of all backgrounds in ocean

High in a Cloud Forest, Tapping Into the Breathing of a Volcanic Beast 

On Costa Rica's active Poás volcano, scientists install geophysical instruments that can monitor the underground in real

A Volcanic Explosion 520,000 Years Ago Dwarfed One That Devastated the Minoan Civilization 

An undersea eruption a half million years ago was much larger than nearly anything recorded in human

Paving the Way for Backpack Climate Science: North Cascades Glacier Climate Project Turns 40 

Forty years after Mauri Pelto began studying the glaciers in northern Washington, much has changed about the glaciers, the project and the people

An Archive of the Stars Is Born 

NASA has designated a group at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory with preserving and making easily accessible data from all the extraterrestrial material curated by the

California Quake Faults Are Highly Sensitive to Solid Earth Tides, Say Scientists 

Oceans have tides, and so does the solid earth. Could they have an effect on earthquake faults? Yes, say scientists, but that doesn't necessarily mean they cause big

Vetlesen Prize Ceremony Honors Two Distinguished Researchers in Earth Sciences 

A celebration held at Columbia University recognized scientists Anny Cazenave and David Kohlstedt as the 2020 and 2023 Vetlesen Prize

New Project Aims to Advance Open and Inclusive Science 

A new CIESIN project funded by NASA's Open Source Science Initiative will produce online learning modules to develop open science literacy for researchers at diverse career stages and from varied

Ivan Tolstoy, Who Elucidated Travels of Sound Through Oceans and Air, and Helped Map Seabeds, Dies at 99 

From beginnings as an exile from the Russian Revolution, a life spent studying geology and long-distance acoustics at sea and in the

Across the Ganges to southwest Bangladesh and the Sundarbans 

Our group of 23 American and Bangladeshi students and professors traveled from the Jamuna River to the Ganges and Gorai Rivers and then down to an embanked island on the edge of the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove

Cutting Confederate Ties, the U.S. Navy Names Ships for a Pioneering Female Oceanographer and a Daring Enslaved Pilot 

Marie Tharp was a marine scientist in a man's world. Robert Smalls was a skilled sailor, but held as a slave. Both are now being honored by the U.S.

Taking my class to Bangladesh 

I am here in Bangladesh with the 10 students and TA in my undergraduate Sustainable Development course for a Spring Break trip to see what they have been learning about. We are accompanied by 2 Dhaka University professors, 8 Bangladeshi students, and Carol Wilson from LSU. We will be touring the country by bus and boat to learn about the environment and people of

Towering Wildfire Clouds Are Affecting the Stratosphere, and the Climate 

Aircraft collecting data from clouds of smoke have revealed surprising effects of wildfires on the

Ancient Eggshell Fragments Crack Giant Elephant Bird’s Life Secrets 

In a region where skeletal fossils are poorly preserved, old eggshells are opening a window into the evolution, diet and distribution of Madagascar's extinct

New Partnership Invites Black Students to Explore the High Seas 

The STEMSEAS program is partnering with historically Black colleges and universities to brainstorm new ideas and networks for increasing diversity in the geosciences and providing opportunities for undergraduate

Explorer of Deep Earth Wins Vetlesen Prize 

Using sophisticated equipment, David Kohlstedt has recreated the pressure, temperature and chemical conditions in the Earth's mantle, which humans cannot observe directly. His findings have laid the basis for understanding many of the processes that drive the planet's

Google Doodle Celebrates Marie Tharp, Who Mapped the Ocean Floor 

Tharp co-published the first world map of the ocean floors and helped prove the theory of continental