Media Releases Archive
March 2010
March 4, 2010
Experts Reaffirm Asteroid Impact Caused Mass Extinction
Responding to challenges to the hypothesis that an asteroid impact caused a mass extinction on Earth 65 million years ago, a panel of 41 scientists…
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Digging Deeper: Craig Fulthorpe Uses Research Vessel to Study Ancient Sea Level
For eight weeks beginning in November 2009, off the coast of New Zealand, an international team of 34 scientists, 92 support staff and crew, and…
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Dinosaurs Might Be Older Than Previously Thought
Paleontologists announced the discovery of a dinosaur-like animal—one that shared many characteristics with dinosaurs but fell just outside of the dinosaur family tree—living 10 million…
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Oil and Water: Passion for Energy, Climate, and Water Unites at EER
As an undergraduate at Stanford University, Emily Grubert discovered her passion in studying climate change and energy. She also discovered that the deeper she gets…
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