This Week From AGU

A weekly selection from AGU’s blogs, scientific journals and Eos, the newspaper of the Earth and space sciences. Members of the news media may sign up for complimentary access to all AGU journal papers and Eos here.

Posts before June 24, 2014 only include summaries of AGU journal articles (“journal highlights”).

From AGU’s blogs: Gorkha earthquake in Nepal: a landslide map and update on the landslide hazard
From Eos.org: What Can We Learn About Disaster Preparedness from Nepal’s Quake?
From AGU’s journals: Could Amazonian Deforestation Increase Cloudiness and Rain?

From AGU’s blogs: Lucky break kept major hurricanes offshore since 2005
From Eos.org: Scientists Hope to Learn Lessons from Nepal Earthquake
From AGU’s journals: Deep Atlantic Conduit Boasts Longest Billow Train

From AGU’s blogs: Volcanic soundscapes reveal differences in undersea eruptions (+ video)
From Eos.org: Is the Shale Boom Reversing Progress in Curbing Ozone Pollution?
From AGU’s journals: When the Sun Goes Quiet, Titan Gets Gassy

From AGU’s blogs: The surprising strength of ‘rainpower’
From Eos.org: Why Does the Aurora Flare Up?
From AGU’s journals: Dry Minerals in the Lower Mantle

From AGU’s blogs: New study explains source of Earth’s mysterious ringing
From Eos.org: Fire in the Hole: Recreating Volcanic Eruptions with Cannon Blasts
From AGU’s journals: Ozone Hole to Remain Large During Cold Years

From AGU’s blogs: Shell-shocked: Ocean acidification likely hampers tiny shell builders in Southern Ocean
From Eos.org: Exploring Natural Hazard Policies with Bike Helmets and Bus Fares
From AGU’s journals: Radar Shows Where Water and Ice Occur in Large Storms

From AGU’s blogs: Q&A with journalist-turned-geologist Rex Buchanan
From Eos.org: Changing of the Guard: Satellite Will Warn Earth of Solar Storms
From AGU’s journals: Underground Aquifers Spew More Pollution Into Oceans Than Rivers

From AGU’s blogs: U.S. hurricanes begin in western Africa’s atmosphere
From Eos.org: Water Levels Surge on Great Lakes
From AGU’s journals: Glacial Debris Hints at Ancient Climate Change

From AGU’s blogs: More urban heat; less summer fog, on California coast
From Eos.org: Increasing Diversity in the Geosciences

From AGU’s blogs: Study of atmospheric ‘froth’ may help GPS communications
From Eos.org: Keeping Watch Over Colombia’s Slumbering Volcanoes
From AGU’s journals: Salish Sea a Key Source of Regional Marine Nutrients

24 February 2015

From AGU’s blogs: Saharan dust feeds Amazon rainforest just enough to replace lost nutrient
From Eos.org: Human and Robotic Missions: To the Moon Again and Beyond
From AGU’s journals: What drove sea surface temperature change during the Pleistocene?

17 February 2015

From AGU’s blogs: Earthquake faults identified in surge of Oklahoma quakes
From Eos.org: Earthquake Monitoring Gets Boost from New Satellite
From AGU’s journals: How Do Tiny Ice Crystals Help Sea Ice Stay Thick?

10 February 2015

From AGU’s blogs: Are dinosaurs going extinct in museums?
From Eos.org: Counting the Ocean’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
From AGU’s journals: Radio Blackout! Ham Radio as an Operational and Scientific Instrument

3 February 2015

From AGU’s blogs: Wind pattern behind California’s drought also struck at ocean food chain
From Eos.org: Reading History From Afar
From AGU’s journals: Changing patterns in U.S. air quality

27 January 2015

From AGU’s blogs: Distinctive sounds announce iceberg births (+ video)
From Eos.org: Underground Water Reserves Found in Hawaii’s High Country
From AGU’s journals: “Knobby terrain” a sign of Mars’s explosive past

20 January 2015

From AGU’s blogs: Mountain monitoring system artificially inflates temperature increases at higher elevations
From Eos.org: Common Ground with New Congress Sought by Interior Secretary
From AGU’s journals: Reduced Emissions Lead to Clearer Skies Over Alabama

13 January 2015

From AGU’s blogs: Not just rain: thunderstorms also pour down ozone
From Eos.org: Urbanization and Air Pollution: Then and Now

From AGU’s blogs: The Scorciavacche Viaduct in Sicily: an earthworks failure that has become a national scandal
From Eos.org: Climate Change Predicted to Worsen Spread of Cholera

30 December 2014

From AGU’s blogs: GeoSpace: Blog posts from the AGU Fall Meeting
From Eos.org: Miners Left a Pollution Trail in the Great Lakes 6000 Years Ago
More from Eos: Robot Explores Under-Ice Habitats in the Arctic

23 December 2014

From AGU’s blogs: GeoSpace: Blog posts from the AGU Fall Meeting
From Eos.org: Elders Recall an Earlier Tsunami on Indian Ocean Shores
From AGU’s journals: Mantle below North American plate newly modeled

16 December 2014

From AGU’s blogs: Growing forests with fire
From Eos.org: Coastal Fog, Climate Change, and the Environment
From AGU’s journals: Seismic wave modeling goes local

9 December 2014

From AGU’s blogs: Beware the Juice of Freshly Pickled California Cherries
From Eos.org: Streamlining Field Data Collection with Mobile Apps
From AGU’s journals: Exploring how wind blows sand on dunes

2 December 2014

From AGU’s Blogs: Mixing waters up in the Southern Ocean
From this week’s Eos: Magnetic Storms and Induction Hazards
From AGU’s journals: Affluent arid regions import tap water

25 November 2014

From AGU’s blogs: Fountain of youth underlies Antarctic mountains
From this week’s Eos: Rapid coordination Extends Space-Based Sun-Climate Record
From AGU’s journals: Foreshocks might predict what comes next

18 November 2014

From AGU’s blogs: Satellite nightlight images show flood exposure increasing worldwide
From this week’s Eos: Time-Lapse Imaging in Polar Environments
From AGU’s journals: Isotopes in ancient corals offer a record of past ocean variability

11 November 2014

From this week’s Eos: Scientists Engage With the Public During Lava Flow Threat
From AGU’s journals: El Niño fades without westerly wind bursts
More from this week’s Eos: Drilling a Small Basaltic Volcano to Reveal Potential Hazards

4 November 2014

From this week’s Eos: Crowdsourcing Digital Maps Using Citizen Geologists
From AGU’s journals: A dearth of hurricanes cannot explain Maya collapse
From AGU’s blogs: Doodling in Science Class: Using Stick Figure Animations to Explain Complex Science at Stanford University

28 October 2014

From AGU’s blogs: Hurricane Sandy restoration saves shorebirds, ‘living fossils’ they rely on
From this week’s Eos: Studying the Atmosphere Using Global Navigation Satellites
From AGU’s journals: Epidemiology can help predict urban water system failures

21 October 2014

From AGU’s blogs: How rain falls – not just how much – may alter landslide risk
From this week’s Eos: Toward Another Lava Lake in the Virunga Volcanic Field?
From AGU’s journals: Changing winds cause melting of coastal Antarctic glaciers

14 October 2014

From AGU’s blogs: Health check reveals how glacier is declining due to warming climate
From this week’s Eos: Higher-Resolution World Ocean Atlas to Aid Climate Studies
From AGU’s journals: Cultivating salt-loving microbes on Mars

From AGU’s blogs: Detecting avalanches from sounds we can’t hear
From this week’s Eos: A Community-Driven Framework for Climate Reconstructions
From AGU’s journals: Tapti Fault in central India: A serious seismic hazard

30 September 2014

From AGU’s blogs: Scientists use fiber-optic cables to measure ice loss in Antarctic
From this week’s Eos: New Indian Ocean Program Builds on a Scientific Legacy
From AGU’s journals: Oregon earthquakes increase local landslide risk

23 September 2014

From this week’s Eos: The New Geologic Map of Mars: Guiding Research and Education
From AGU’s journals: History of storm surge in Florida strongly underestimated

16 September 2014

From AGU’s blogs: First results from Rosetta landing expected to be unveiled at AGU Fall Meeting
From this week’s Eos: Crop Residue Burning: A Threat to South Asian Air Quality
From AGU’s journals: Mountain ranges hold new clues to understanding how Pangaea formed

9 September 2014

From AGU’s blogs: Global food trade may not meet all future demand, new study indicates
From this week’s Eos: Next-Generation Forecasting of High-Impact Weather
From AGU’s journals: Europe supplies substantial aerosol phosphorus to the Mediterranean

2 September 2014

From AGU’s blogs: Earthquake rupture through a U.S. suburb
From this week’s Eos: Future Mars Rovers: The Next Places to Direct Our Curiosity
From AGU’s journals: Models of ozone changes do not agree with real measurements

From AGU’s blogs: Heating up the fishbowl: Climate change threatens endangered Devils Hole pupfish
From this week’s Eos: Cold Water and High Ice Cover on Great Lakes in Spring 2014
From AGU’s journals: Local model better describes lunar gravity

From this week’s Eos: Long-Term Ecological Research and Network-Level Science
From AGU’s journals: A model to predict when a cholera outbreak might hit the Congo

From AGU’s journals: Atmospheric forces drive development of superrotation
From this week’s Eos: Exploratory Modeling: Extracting Causality From Complexity

From AGU’s blogs: Sea-level spikes can harm beaches worse than hurricane
From this week’s Eos: Assessing Volcanic Risk in Saudi Arabia: An Integrated Approach
From AGU’s journals: Large volcanic eruptions cause drought in eastern China

From AGU’s blogs: Dropped cell phone calls become rain gauges in West Africa
From AGU’s journals: Lightning channel current persists between strokes
From this week’s Eos: Where Local Matters: Impacts of a Major North Sea Storm Surge

From AGU’s blogs: Oso disaster had its roots in earlier landslides
From this week’s Eos: Reducing Rockfall Risk in Yosemite National Park
From AGU’s journals: A new earthquake model may explain discrepancies in San Andreas fault slip

From AGU’s blogs: Global climate models fail to simulate key dust characteristics
From AGU’s journals: Surface waves contribute to ice retreat in Beaufort Sea
From this week’s Eos: How Does Climate Impact Floods? Closing the Knowledge Gap

From AGU’s blogs: Livestock digestion released more methane than oil and gas industry in 2004
From AGU’s journals: Electron temperature in Mars ionosphere is not dependent on solar zenith angle
From this week’s Eos: Another Drop in Water Vapor

From AGU’s blogs: Cold War era samples reveal sharp drop in major global warming agent in part of Arctic
From AGU’s journals: Using lunar craters to date the South Pole-Aitken basin
From this week’s Eos: 3-D Seismic Surveys Explore Petrothermal Reserves in Germany

From AGU’s blogs: The risky business of climate change
From AGU’s journals: Aerosols from Sahara weaken cyclogenesis
From this week’s Eos: The Exoplanet Opportunity: Top-Down Planetary Science

Polar hexagon-shaped jet stream could reveal Saturn’s rotational period
Antarctica’s Whillans Ice Plain ice flows are highly variable
Climate change, water rights, and agriculture: A case study in Idaho
Low impact development boosts groundwater recharge
Beaufort Gyre sea ice thins in recent decades, impacts climate
New model describes toppling of salt marsh banks

4 February 2014