Check out this picture and article from the New York Times. Yes, a degree in geosciences can have you studying stuff in space too
NASA Detects Planet Dancing with a Pair of Stars, NY Times, Sept. 15, 2011.
Interesting Science 1: Monitoring Groundwater from Space
Geoscientists do really cool things.
A scientific idea, born at the University of Texas, has come to fruition in an long term study that monitors the depletion of groundwater by using satellites that detect small changes in the earth’s gravitational field. This is high tech geology, folks, and it is applied to something really important. The availability of fresh water dictates where people can live and grow crops. It is the one thing that people absolutely must have to survive. Click on the link to read the whole article.
Groundwater Depletion is Detected from Space Felicity Barringer, New York Times, May 30, 2011.
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GeoFORCE Featured in Opportunity Houston
GeoFORCE was featured in Opportunity Houston in the Fall of 2009. Click to download the PDF: Opportunity Houston-GeoFORCE Article Fall 2009 [5.1M PDF].
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Interesting Science 3: Video of Earth
Check out this video, posted by Scientific American, of timelapse photos taken from the international space station. You can see cities, roads, the Aurora, and lightening storms. Pretty cool. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/14/the-best-video-of-earth-from-space-ever-made/