"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

Deepest water found 1000km down, a third of way to Earth's core : Water identified far below the surface suggests Earth may contain many oceans’-worth of hidden water throughout the mantle (Andy COGHLAN, New Scientist ; November 23, 2016)

This 3-minute animation will change the way you see the Universe  (Alex KUZOIAN, Business Insider ; November 21, 2016) http://www.businessinsider.com/animated-scale-universe-atom-human-earth-galaxy-polaris-2016-11

M7.8 Kaikoura Quake:  Future Scenarios and Aftershock Forecasts ( GeoNet ; Update 20/11/2016) http://info.geonet.org.nz/display/quake/2016/11/14/M7.8+Kaikoura+Quake%3A+Future+Scenarios+and+Aftershock+Forecasts New Zealand's earthquake was so powerful the seafooor fitted TWO METRES and exploded through the sand (Kate DARVALL, Daily Mail Australia ; November 16 and 18, 2016) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3940782/New-Zealand-earthquake-lifts-seabed-METRE.html New Zealand quake:  The geological impact of a 'complex' tremor ( BBC News Asia ; 18 November 2016) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37996276 Video: Where Two Tectonic Plates Collide ( GNS Science ; October 17, 2012) Website: Major Faults in New Zealand ( GNS Science ) https://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Learning/Science-Topics/Earthquakes/Major-Faults-in-New-Zealand

Migrations in Motion:  Visualizing Species Movement due to Climate Change (Justine E. HAUSHEER, The Nature Conservancy ; August 19, 2016) http://blog.nature.org/science/2016/08/19/migration-in-motion-visualizing-species-movements-due-to-climate-change/ Migrations in Motion Interactive Map - North and South America  ( The Nature Conservancy ) http://maps.tnc.org/migrations-in-motion/#4/11.35/-78.62 Plus... Species on the Move:  Mapping Barriers for Wildlife in a Warming World (Justine E. HAUSHEER, Cool Green Science ; June 29, 2016) https://blog.nature.org/science/2016/06/29/species-on-the-move-mapping-barriers-for-wildlife-in-a-warming-world/?utm_source=cgs&utm_medium=alsoin&utm_campaign=migrations Wildlife in a Warming World ( National Wildlife Federation - U. S. Forest Service ; 2013) https://www.nwf.org/~/media/PDFs/Global-Warming/Reports/NWF_Wildlife-Warming-World_Report_web.pdf

November's Supermoon Is Closest Since 1948: 5 Surprising Facts (Elizabeth HOWELL, Space.com ; November 10, 2016)

The sweet scent of plastic lures seabirds to a dangerous snack : Plastic beads left to marinate in the ocean develop the same smell that some birds seek out when foraging for food (Emily BENSON, New Scientist ; November 9, 2016) Las aves marinas se atiborran de plástico atraídas poor su olor (Nuño DOMÍNGUEZ, El País ; 9 Noviembre 2016) http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/08/ciencia/1478633168_389591.html#?ref=rss&format=simple&link=link Selected Research Publications: Seabirds, gyres and global trends in plastic pollution (VAN FRANEKER and LAW, 2015) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749115001104/pdfft?md5=6783d07ef1d320d99940fe0974db12a3&pid=1-s2.0-S0269749115001104-main.pdf Prevalence of marine debris in marine birds from the North Atlantic (PROVENCHER et al. , 2014) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f76b/c9206028518fa6bcc677a70b8bf4b95a93de.pdf A comparison of plastic and plankton in the North Pacific central gyre (MOORE et al. , 2001...

Minister Announces Canada’s Oceans Protection Plan in Eastern Canada ( Navigator News ; November 8, 2016) Prime Minister announces $1.5B ocean protection plan in Vancouver ( Global BC ; November 7, 2016) http://globalnews.ca/video/3053021/prime-minister-announces-1-5b-ocean-protection-plan-in-vancouver

LOOK: Space Station Could Be Seen From Earth Using New Interactive Map : A new interactive map makes it easier for people to spot the International Space Station from Earth and connect with astronauts in the orbiting lab. (Jamie AYQUE, Nature World News ; November 4, 2016)

Northern Australia: Video:  Flinders Ranges Rock Shelter was site of Australia's earliest known tool makers and painters, dating 49,000 years ago (Clare PEDDIE, The Advertiser ; November 2, 2016) http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/technology/science/video-flinders-ranges-rock-shelter-was-site-of-australias-earliest-known-tool-makers-and-painters-dating-49000-years-ago/news-story/949fd5632e1f0d3e181e1c3e0135632e Western Australia: World's oldest known ground-edge stone axe fragments found in Western Australia (Dani COOPER, ABC News Australia ; May 10, 2016) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-11/world's-oldest-known-ground-edge-stone-axe-fragments-found/7401728 N. B.:  Research publication PDF link available at the end of the aformentioned ABC News Australia article.

Alerte à la fraude scientifique! (Olivia RECASENS, Le Point.fr ; 19/10/2016) http://www.lepoint.fr/science/alerte-a-la-fraude-scientifique-19-10-2016-2077093_25.php Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie about their data (Bjorn CAREY, Stanford News : November 16, 2015) http://news.stanford.edu/2015/11/16/fraud-science-papers-111615/ Selected Research Articles: Fraud Triangle and Ethical Leadership Perspectives on Detecting and Preventing Academic Research Misconduct ( ARIAIL and CRUMBLEY , 2016) http://web.nacva.com/JFIA/Issues/JFIA-2016-No3-6.pdf The Changing Publication Practices in Academia:  Inherent Uses and Issues in Open Access and Online Publishing and the Rise of Fraudulent Publications ( MCNAUGHT, 2015) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0018.308?view=text;rgn=main The White Bull effect:  abusive co-authorship and publication parasitism ( KWOK , 2004) http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/9/554.full.pdf+html

Missing link between Hayward and Rodgers Creek faults (WATTS et al. , 2016) http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/2/10/e1601441.full.pdf U. S. Geological Survey Soil Type and Hazard in the San Francisco Bay Area http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/soiltype/ N. B.:  Interactive Map available on the aforementioned USGS Earthquake website. Geologic Map of the San Francisco Bay Region http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/sfgeo/geologic/images/sfbr-Geologyposter-100.jpg Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Seismic Monitor Interactive Map http://ds.iris.edu/seismon/

Killer Clothing Was All the Rage in the 19th Century (Becky LITTLE, National Geographic ; October 17, 2016) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/dress-hat-fashion-clothing-mercury-arsenic-poison-history/ The 7 Deadliest Fashion Trends of All Time (Ria MISRA, iO9 ; June 24, 2014) http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-7-deadliest-fashion-trends-of-all-time-1595312875 The Most Dangerous Beauty Through the Ages (Cheryl WISCHHOVER,  New York Magazine ; December 17, 2013) http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/12/most-dangerous-beauty-through-the-ages.html

Astronomers may now fully understand why the sky is dark at night (Dave MOSHER, Business Insider ; October 13, 2016) https://amp.businessinsider.com/hubble-number-galaxies-space-universe-2016-10?ref=yfp Selected Research Articles: On Olbers' Paradox   ( BONNER , 1964) http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/128/1/33.full.pdf+html Why the sky is dark at night ( HARRISON , 1974) http://www.if.ufrj.br/~orca/intcosmo/122/Harrison_PhysToday_27_30_1974_Why_the_sky_is_dark_at_night.pdf Impact of galactic and intergalactic dust on the stellar EBL ( VAVRYČUK , 2016 ) http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10509-016-2785-1.pdf Video: Why is it Dark at Night?   ( MinutePhysics ; September 30, 2012)

Great ShakeOut:  Earthquake Drills ( shakeout.org ) http://www.shakeout.org/ Recommended Earthquake Safety Actions ( shakeout.org ) http://www.earthquakecountry.org/downloads/ShakeOut_Recommended_Earthquake_Safety_Actions.pdf

Exclusive:  Deepest Underwater Cave Discovered (Kat LONG, National Geographic ; September 29, 2016) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/activities/caving-and-canyoneering/deepest-underwater-cave-discovered/ World's deepest underwater cave found in Czech Republic (Monica SCISLOWSKA, Phys.org ; September 30, 2016) http://phys.org/news/2016-09-explorer-deepest-underwater-cave.html Have These Divers Found the World's Deepest Underwater Cave? (Mark M. SYNNOTT, National Geographic ; September 4, 2015) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150904-cave-dive-czech-polish-deepest-flooded-adventure/ N. B.:   The aforementioned article contains an embedded  video of  Hranická Propast . Other Notable Deep Underwater Caves/Sinkholes Il Pozzo del Merro (Italy) - Documentary originally made for RAI tv  ( N. B. :   In Italian! ) Acqua e fuoco 1.wmv ( BLUSUB ; March 17, 2011) Acqua e fuoco 2.wmv ( BLUSUB ; March 17, 2011) ...

Scientists may have solved a key riddle about Antarctica - and you're not going to like the answer   (Chris MOONEY, Washington Post ; September 20, 2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/20/scientists-may-have-just-solved-a-riddle-about-antarctica-and-youre-not-going-to-like-the-answer/?utm_term=.fdbfbec7aeb8 The Sirius Debate - Antarctic Glaciers (HAMBREY, 2014) http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacial-geology/the-sirius-debate/ Selected Publications: Wind blown Pliocene diatoms and East Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat (SCHERER et al. , 2016) http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12957.pdf The Mount Feather Diamicton of the Sirius Group:  an accumulation of indicators of Neogene Antarctic glacial and climatic history (WILSON et al., 2002) http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=geosciencefacpub Antarctic Neogene Landscapes - In Refrigerator or in Deep Freeze ( GSA Today ; April 1998) http://ww...

Number sickened in Hep A outbreak linked to scallops hits 252 ( Hawaii News Now Staff ; Update - September 7, 2016) http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/32680042/number-sickened-in-hep-a-outbreak-linked-to-scallops-hits-241 Hepatitis A Outbreak sickens 70; linked to imported frozen strawberries ( Healio Infectious Disease News ; September 2, 2016) http://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/gastrointestinal-infections/news/online/%7Ba127d24c-6b43-4201-8684-80ca14874325%7D/hepatitis-a-outbreak-sickens-70-linked-to-imported-frozen-strawberries Selected Research Articles: Processing Strategies to Inactivate Hepatitis A Virus in Food Products:  A Critical Review (SÁNCHEZ, 2015) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/1541-4337.12154/asset/crf312154.pdf?v=1&t=istxcb79&s=6d5488103c2ec769d96b322a8625ef3a77c755fb Large and Prolonged food-borne multistate Hepatitis A outbreak in Europe associated with the consumption of frozen berries, 2013 to 2014 (SEVERI et al. ...

An unexplained event occurred in Earth's stratosphere for first time since records began (Aristos GEORGIOU, International Business Times UK ; September 5, 2016) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/unexplained-event-occurred-earths-stratosphere-first-time-since-records-began-1579734 Mysterious Anomaly Interrupts Stratospheric Wind Pattern (Sarah STANLEY,  EOS ; September 2, 2016) https://eos.org/research-spotlights/mysterious-anomaly-interrupts-stratospheric-wind-patter n Why the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation matters [Media Center, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ; March 26, 2015] http://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2015/why-quasi-biennial-oscillation-matters Selected Research Articles: The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (BALDWIN et al ., 2001) https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/related_files/baldwin0101.pdf The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO):  Some Points about the Terrestrial QBO and the Possibility of Related Phenomena in the So...

Scientists find 3.7 billion-year-old fossil, oldest yet (Seth BORENSTEIN, Associated Press ; August 31, 2016) http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f8406b09b59946d9a4a95ecc768dd757/scientists-find-37-billion-year-old-fossil-oldest-yet Scientists find signs of life in Australia dating back 3.48 billion years (Greg BOTELHO, CNN ; November 14, 2013) http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/13/world/asia/australia-ancient-life/ Selected Research Articles: Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures Recording an Ancient Ecosystem in the ca. 3.48 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia (NOFFKE et al , 2013) http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/ast.2013.1030 Morphological record of oxygen photosynthesis in conical stromatolites (BOSAK et al , 2009) http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10939.full.pdf Evidence of Archean Life:  Stromatolites and Microfossils (SCHOPF et al , 2007) http://www.cornellcollege.edu/geology/courses/greenstein/paleo/schopf_07.pdf ...

Update: New!   Reef 'sun shield' trials show promise to prevent coral bleaching (Media Release, Great Barrier Reef Foundation ; 27 March 2018) https://www.barrierreef.org/latest/news/reef-sun-shield-trials-show-promise-to-prevent-coral-bleaching Videos: Coral Bleaching Caught on Camera  ( Queensland University of Technology/WSJ; August 16, 2016) Coral Bleaching Animation - HHMI BioInteractive Video (November 4, 2014)

US taps NCAR Technology for New Water Resources Forecasts [ University Corporation of Atmospheric Research (UCAR) - National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); August 16, 2016] http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/122342/us-taps-ncar-technology-for-new-water-resources-forecasts Websites: WRF-Hydro Modeling System [ NCAR-UCAR Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) ] https://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/wrf_hydro Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc .  ( CUAHSI ) https://www.cuahsi.org/

An Emergent Clean Energy Field:  Virtual Power Plants ( Climate Action Programme - UNEP ; August 15, 2016) http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/news/an_emergent_clean_energy_field_virtual_power_plants?utm_source=Feeds&utm_campaign=News&utm_medium=rss Virtual Power Plants get Around Solar Power's Intermittency Problem (Richard MARTIN, MIT Technology Review ; June 14, 2016) https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601695/virtual-power-plants-get-around-solar-powers-intermittency-problem/ Virtual Power Plants:  A New Model for Renewables Integration (Tilde BAYAR, Renewable Energy World ; September 30, 2013) http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/print/volume-16/issue-5/solar-energy/virtual-power-plants-a-new-model-for-renewables-integration.html Video:  Learn Where Energy Comes From (National Grid; 3BL Media ) Video: Learn Where Energy Comes From | National Grid from 3BL Media on Vimeo .

Perseid Lore:  The Legend and Science Behind the Epic Meteor Shower (Joe RAO, Space.com; August 11, 2016) http://www.space.com/33706-perseid-meteor-shower-legend-science.html N. B.:   Aforementioned article provides link to the SLOOH Community Observatory  website for live webcast viewing of this annual August astronomical event. Selected Publications: The Perseid Meteor Shower ( HUGHES , 1995) http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1995EM%26P...68...31H/0000032.000.html Meteorites and meteors ( PICKERING , 1919) http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1919PA.....27..203P/0000203.000.html

Website: Earth Overshoot Day 2016 http://www.overshootday.org/

Ancient Babylonians Astronomers used Calculus to find Jupiter 1,400 years before Europeans (Stuart GARY, ABC News Australia ; January 28, 2016) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-29/ancient-babylonian-text-earliest-use-of-calculus-for-astronomy/7121548 What is Algebra? (Robert COOLMAN, LiveScience ; March 26, 2015) http://www.livescience.com/50258-algebra.html Who Invented Zero? (Jessie SZALAY, LiveScience ; June 28, 2013) http://www.livescience.com/27853-who-invented-zero.html Selected Research: Ptolemy's Longitudes and Eratosthenes' Measurement of the Earth's Circumference (RUSSO, 2013) http://msp.org/memocs/2013/1-1/memocs-v1-n1-p04-p.pdf A Tutorial History of Least Squares with Applications to Astronomy and Geodesy (NIEVERGELT, 2000) http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0377042700003435/1-s2.0-S0377042700003435-main.pdf?_tid=fb591512-57e9-11e6-b46b-00000aacb361&acdnat=1470057493_013b43b973b3d3bc272e89f9fd89657d The Growth of an Empirical Cartography in Hel...

100% of the women of color interviewed in STEM study experienced gender bias (Yohana DESTA, Mashable ; January 26, 2015) http://mashable.com/2015/01/26/women-of-color-stem-research/#NLqVZApt_8qH These Shocking Charts Show How Hard it is for Black Women in Science (John LEVINE,  Mic Daily ; July 15, 2015) https://mic.com/articles/122185/stem-black-women#.A2YoosBRQ Amazing STEM heroes of #BlackWomenDidThat (Carmen TRIOLA, Mashable ; July 29, 2016) http://mashable.com/2016/07/29/black-women-stem-hashtag/#_F5RsBdXhSqt " Prove-It-Again is more common for Black women than for the other three groups of women : Black women (76.9%) were more likely than other women to report having to provide more evidence of competence than others to prove themselves..." Excerpt from " Double Jeopardy? Gender Bias Against Women of Color in Science"; page 7. Also... Where Are the Black Women in STEM Leadership? (Erika JEFFERSON, Scientific American ; April 23, 2...

Lake Urmia:  how Iran's most famous lake is disappearing (Ali MIRCHI, Kaveh MADANI and Amir AGHAKOUCHAK, The Guardian ; January 23, 2015) https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2015/jan/23/iran-lake-urmia-drying-up-new-research-scientists-urge-action 'Blood Red' Lake Blooms in Iran (Mindy WEISBERGER, LiveScience ; July 26, 2016) http://www.livescience.com/55548-blood-lake-blooms-in-iran.html The blood lake in Iran revealed:  Stunning satellite images show how tiny bugs transform salt water into a brilliant red that can be seen from space (Sarah GRIFFITHS, Daily Mail UK ; July 27, 2016) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3710601/The-blood-lake-Iran-revealed-Stunning-satellite-image-shows-tiny-bugs-transform-salt-water-brilliant-red.html Iran's 'dying' saltwater giant Lake Urmia turns blood red (Photos, Video) ( RT.com ; July 29, 2016) https://www.rt.com/viral/353940-urmia-lake-drought-red/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_c...

Great Barrier Reef Undergoing a 'Complete Ecosystem Collapse', Scientists Say (Ada CARR, The Weather Channel ; July 22, 2016) https://weather.com/science/environment/news/great-barrier-reef-queensland-australia-coral-bleaching-complete-ecosystem Best Protected Barrier Reef Corals are now Dead (John Upton, ClimateCentral ; June 1, 2016) http://www.climatecentral.org/news/great-barrier-reef-corals-now-dead-20403 Great Barrier Reef:  Half of Natural Wonder is 'dead or dying', and it is on the brink of extinction, Scientists say (Andrew GRIFFIN, Independent;  April 20, 2016) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/great-barrier-reef-half-of-natural-wonder-is-dead-or-dying-and-it-is-on-the-brink-of-extinction-a6992411.html Great Barrier Reef an 'unfolding disaster' as World Heritage Site is on brink of collapse (Hannah OSBORNE, International Business Times ; March 19, 2015) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/great-barrier-reef-unfolding-disaster-world-heritage-...

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