Tag: Department
January 2, 2013
Untangling Knots: Whitney Behr Tackles Some Tough Structural Problems
It’s the nightmare scenario: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake begins at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault and the rupture continues moving northwest 200…
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How to Build a Smarter Rock
Joel Johnson of the Jackson School has crafted metal rocks to mimic a natural stone’s shape and density, and then inserted custom-made electronics to measure…
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Captain Geo: Leon Long’s Five Decades as Teacher, Scientist, and Mentor
The crowd of about 75 people milled about beneath the giant Texas pterosaur skeleton in the stately polished marble main hall of the Texas Memorial…
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El Tatio: Science for Society
Last year, Suzanne Pierce was selected as one of the first 20 Fulbright Nexus Scholars, a group of early to mid-career experts working to bridge…
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Eavesdropping on the Secret Lives of Fish
Marine scientists are using “earthstones” from Southern flounder to determine the age, growth history and migration patterns of fish. Nate Miller’s geochemical analyses are a…
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Linking Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change
Hurricane Sandy was dubbed a “Super storm” for its unusual formation. Kerry Cook, a climate scientist at the Jackson School, calls it a hybrid that…
Read MoreSeptember 11, 2012
Stress Test: Five Key Lessons (and Challenges) from the Great Texas Drought
Perhaps the only positive thing about the 2011 drought in Texas, the state’s worst single-year drought in history, is that it ended up being the…
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Saving the Delta: Research generates new optimism about saving the Mississippi Delta from erosion
With the rapid disappearance of its protective buffer of wetlands, New Orleans is becoming more vulnerable to storms every year. But recent research has revealed…
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Dr. Bayani Cardenas – Hot Springs
Academic Minute (WAMC in Albany, NY), June 12, 2012 Featuring: Bayani Cardenas
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Tiny remnants of war found in Omaha Beach sand
Reuters, LiveScience, Wall Street Journal (blog), Daily Mail (UK), Alcalde, May 26-June 6, 2012 Featuring: Earle McBride
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