"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

Scientists ID Three Causes of Earth's Spin Axis Drift : NASA has identified three processes responsible for wobbles in Earth's axis of rotation: water mass loss primarily in Greenland, glacial rebound, and mantle convection. (Esprit SMITH, JPL - NASA ; September 19, 2018) Research Articles: What drives 20th century polar motion? (ADHIKARI et al. , 2018) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X18305314?dgcid=rss_sd_all N. B.:   Article Abstract only! Climate driven polar motion:  2003 - 2015 (ADHIKARI et al. , 2016) http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/2/4/e1501693.full.pdf Geodetic vertical velocities by recent rapid changes in polar motions (KING and WATSON, 2014) https://academic.oup.com/gji/article-pdf/199/2/1161/6049101/ggu325.pdf The excitiation of the Chandler wobble (GROSS, 2000) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2000GL011450 Climate driven polar motion (CELAYA et al. , 1999) https://onlinel...

New!  Scientists debate planet definition, status of Pluto (Laurel KORNFELD, SpaceFlight Insider ; May 5, 2019) https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/solar-system/scientists-debate-planet-definition-status-of-pluto/ Pluto a Planet?  New Research for UCF Suggests Yes (Robert H. WELLS, UCF Today ; September 6, 2018) https://today.ucf.edu/pluto-planet-research/ Featured Research Article: The Reclassification of Asteroids from Planets to Non-planets (METZGER et al ., 2018) https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1805/1805.04115.pdf Artist Impression of Pluto and Charon ( NASA , 1992) Additional Selected Publications : Pluto’s Classification (BANE, 2019) https://firescholars.seu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=ccplus A Quantitative Criterion for Defining Planets (MARGOT, 2015) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.06300 Website: International Astronomical Union (IAU) https://www.iau.org/

Improving soil quality can slow global warming (Robert SANDERS, Berkeley News ; August 29, 2018) http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/08/29/improving-soil-quality-can-slow-global-warming/ Featured Research Article: The potential of agricultural land management to contribute to lower global surface temperatures (MAYER et al. , 2018) http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaaq0932.full.pdf Website: Soil Carbon Storage (ONTL et al. , 2012) https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/soil-carbon-storage-84223790