Media Releases
October 29, 2012
Alumnus Creates “Generation Anthropocene” Podcast
As a PhD student in isotope geochemistry at Stanford University, Mike Osborne (BS ’07) found himself working alone in the lab a lot. He spent…
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October 25, 2012
AGI Announces Sharon Mosher as its 2013 President
Alexandria, VA – The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce Dr. Sharon Mosher as its 2013 President. She will be inducted at the…
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September 19, 2012
CT Scan and 3-D Print Help Scientists Reconstruct an Ancient Mollusk
Using a combination of traditional and innovative model-building techniques, scientists in the U.S. and a specialist in Denmark have created a lifelike reconstruction of an…
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September 13, 2012
Recap: “Hasta La Vesta” Online Event
On September 8, 2012, NASA’s Dawn mission held Hasta La Vesta, a celebration of the successful exploration of giant asteroid Vesta. As part of the…
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September 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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August 6, 2012
Study Finds Correlation Between Injection Wells and Small Earthquakes
Most earthquakes in the Barnett Shale region of North Texas occur within a few miles of one or more injection wells used to dispose of…
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August 6, 2012
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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July 13, 2012
Field Update: Drilling Through the Japan Earthquake Fault
After successfully reentering the wellhead 4.3 miles below the ship, we began drilling towards the fault that unleashed the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
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July 13, 2012
Field Update: Like Threading a Needle from 7 kilometers away
How do you insert a drill bit into a 20-inch well head 7 kilometers below your ship? Read Patrick Fulton’s second post from aboard the…
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July 10, 2012
Field Update: Return to the Japan Trench
Greetings from the scientific deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu. Our focus is to quickly drill into and study the fault that caused the March 2011 Japan Earthquake and…
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October 29, 2012
Alumnus Creates “Generation Anthropocene” Podcast
As a PhD student in isotope geochemistry at Stanford University, Mike Osborne (BS ’07) found himself working alone in the lab a lot. He spent…
Read MoreOctober 25, 2012
AGI Announces Sharon Mosher as its 2013 President
Alexandria, VA – The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce Dr. Sharon Mosher as its 2013 President. She will be inducted at the…
Read MoreSeptember 19, 2012
CT Scan and 3-D Print Help Scientists Reconstruct an Ancient Mollusk
Using a combination of traditional and innovative model-building techniques, scientists in the U.S. and a specialist in Denmark have created a lifelike reconstruction of an…
Read MoreSeptember 13, 2012
Recap: “Hasta La Vesta” Online Event
On September 8, 2012, NASA’s Dawn mission held Hasta La Vesta, a celebration of the successful exploration of giant asteroid Vesta. As part of the…
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…
Read MoreAugust 6, 2012
Study Finds Correlation Between Injection Wells and Small Earthquakes
Most earthquakes in the Barnett Shale region of North Texas occur within a few miles of one or more injection wells used to dispose of…
Read MoreAugust 6, 2012
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…
Read MoreJuly 13, 2012
Field Update: Drilling Through the Japan Earthquake Fault
After successfully reentering the wellhead 4.3 miles below the ship, we began drilling towards the fault that unleashed the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Read MoreJuly 13, 2012
Field Update: Like Threading a Needle from 7 kilometers away
How do you insert a drill bit into a 20-inch well head 7 kilometers below your ship? Read Patrick Fulton’s second post from aboard the…
Read MoreJuly 10, 2012
Field Update: Return to the Japan Trench
Greetings from the scientific deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu. Our focus is to quickly drill into and study the fault that caused the March 2011 Japan Earthquake and…
Read More