Media Releases
January 1, 2008
Seismic Images Show Dinosaur-Killing Meteor Made Bigger Splash
The most detailed three-dimensional seismic images yet of the Chicxulub crater, a mostly submerged and buried impact crater on the Mexico coast, may modify a…
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December 7, 2007
Ringside Seat
For 20 years, Fred Taylor has done fundamental research in the Solomons, an island arc in the famous Pacific Ring of Fire. The islands trace…
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December 7, 2007
Rapid Response Mission Helps Assess Earthquake Risk in South Pacific
On Monday morning, April 2, 2007, residents of Gizo, a small fishing town in the Solomon Islands, were shaken by a massive earthquake originating 40…
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November 29, 2007
Law of the Sea: Institute Researcher Helps Map Arctic Seafloor
This past summer, a team of Russian explorers piloted two submersibles to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole and dropped a…
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November 15, 2007
‘Ultrasound’ of Earth’s Crust Reveals Inner Workings of a Tsunami Factory
Research announced this week by a team of U.S. and Japanese geoscientists may help explain why part of the seafloor near the southwest coast of…
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November 5, 2007
Crystal Ball: Scientists Race to Foretell West Antarctica’s Unclear Future
Polar ice experts once thought Antarctica’s ice sheets were mostly immune to climate change. Research findings of the past decade have started to melt away…
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November 1, 2007
Coastal Oceanography: Mead Allison studies areas where large rivers such as the Mississippi discharge into the oceans to better understand ancient delta systems and to reconstruct paleoclimate
Mead Allison joined the Institute for Geophysics as a senior research scientist in August 2007. Allison’s research focuses on coastal geological oceanography, including both the…
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October 24, 2007
Science Online: Aaron Averett develops internet applications that incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in support of several Bureau projects
Aaron Averett joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research scientist associate in May 2006. Averett develops internet applications that incorporate Geographic Information Systems…
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September 24, 2007
Petroleum Petrophysics: Raymond Eastwood applies modern computer models to old well log data to help small, independent oil and gas companies determine reservoir potentials
Raymond Eastwood joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research fellow in October 2006, where he works in the State of Texas Advance Resource…
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September 23, 2007
His Fault: Faults, as Nick Hayman will tell you, are hazardous. They can also tell us about fundamental planetary processes such as plate tectonics
Nick Hayman joined the Institute for Geophysics as a research associate in September 2007. Hayman’s research interests include structural geology and geodynamics. He is working…
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January 1, 2008
Seismic Images Show Dinosaur-Killing Meteor Made Bigger Splash
The most detailed three-dimensional seismic images yet of the Chicxulub crater, a mostly submerged and buried impact crater on the Mexico coast, may modify a…
Read MoreDecember 7, 2007
Ringside Seat
For 20 years, Fred Taylor has done fundamental research in the Solomons, an island arc in the famous Pacific Ring of Fire. The islands trace…
Read MoreDecember 7, 2007
Rapid Response Mission Helps Assess Earthquake Risk in South Pacific
On Monday morning, April 2, 2007, residents of Gizo, a small fishing town in the Solomon Islands, were shaken by a massive earthquake originating 40…
Read MoreNovember 29, 2007
Law of the Sea: Institute Researcher Helps Map Arctic Seafloor
This past summer, a team of Russian explorers piloted two submersibles to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole and dropped a…
Read MoreNovember 15, 2007
‘Ultrasound’ of Earth’s Crust Reveals Inner Workings of a Tsunami Factory
Research announced this week by a team of U.S. and Japanese geoscientists may help explain why part of the seafloor near the southwest coast of…
Read MoreNovember 5, 2007
Crystal Ball: Scientists Race to Foretell West Antarctica’s Unclear Future
Polar ice experts once thought Antarctica’s ice sheets were mostly immune to climate change. Research findings of the past decade have started to melt away…
Read MoreNovember 1, 2007
Coastal Oceanography: Mead Allison studies areas where large rivers such as the Mississippi discharge into the oceans to better understand ancient delta systems and to reconstruct paleoclimate
Mead Allison joined the Institute for Geophysics as a senior research scientist in August 2007. Allison’s research focuses on coastal geological oceanography, including both the…
Read MoreOctober 24, 2007
Science Online: Aaron Averett develops internet applications that incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in support of several Bureau projects
Aaron Averett joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research scientist associate in May 2006. Averett develops internet applications that incorporate Geographic Information Systems…
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2007
Petroleum Petrophysics: Raymond Eastwood applies modern computer models to old well log data to help small, independent oil and gas companies determine reservoir potentials
Raymond Eastwood joined the Bureau of Economic Geology as a research fellow in October 2006, where he works in the State of Texas Advance Resource…
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2007
His Fault: Faults, as Nick Hayman will tell you, are hazardous. They can also tell us about fundamental planetary processes such as plate tectonics
Nick Hayman joined the Institute for Geophysics as a research associate in September 2007. Hayman’s research interests include structural geology and geodynamics. He is working…
Read More