"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

Climate-addled jet streams boost drought, flood: study | AFP.com Featured Research Article : Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance  and Extreme Weather Events (MANN et al. , 2017) http://www.nature.com/articles/srep45242.pdf

Top British universities found producing ‘fake research’ : Hundreds of allegations of “fake research” conducted at some of the UK’s top universities were reported between 2011 and 2016, figures show. Selected Research Articles: Researchers' Individual Publication Rate Has Not Increased in a Century (FANELLI and LARIVIÈRE, 2016) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149504&type=printable Scientific Misconduct  (GROSS, 2016) http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~kalas/ethics/documents/introduction/gross15a.pdf Plagiarism in Scientific Publishing (MASIC, 2012) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558294/

USGS study finds new evidence of San Andreas Fault earthquakes | Temblor.net (David JACOBSON, Temblor ; March 3, 2017)

University of Alberta study looks at volume of urine in pools : If you’ve ever wondered how often people might be peeing in your local swimming pool, a new University of Alberta study has the answer.And the results are not pleasant.Researchers behind the study estimate that in one instance, swimmers had released nearly 75 litres of urine into a 833,000-litres pool, which is about one-third the size of an Olympic... (Keith GEREIN, Toronto Sun ; March 1, 2017) How Much Pee Is In That Pool? (Erika ENGELHAUPT, NPR News ; March 1, 2017) http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/01/517785902/just-how-much-pee-is-in-that-pool Research Article: Sweetened Swimming Pools and Hot Tubs (BLACKSTOCK et al. , 2017) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00043

NASA Data shows California's San Joaquin Valley Still Sinking (News, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; February 28, 2017) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6761 Selected Publications: Progress Report:  Subsidence in Central California March 2015 - September 2016 ( FARR et al. , 2016) http://www.water.ca.gov/waterconditions/docs/2017/JPL%20subsidence%20report%20final%20for%20public%20dec%202016.pdf Water Availability and Land Subsidence in Central Valley, California, USA ( FAUNT et al. , 2015) https://ca.water.usgs.gov/pubs/2015/FauntEtAl2015.pdf