by admin | Mar 15, 2023 | News
It’s summer right now in Antarctica. So, you might expect there to be less sea ice (the ice that freezes in the ocean). And indeed, there is. But this year is exceptional in that winds and warmer air and water have reduced sea ice extent to its lowest amount since...
by admin | Feb 15, 2023 | News
“February 2023 will be a moment in time of a gathering of great minds for commitments to resolve what it takes, to move from where we are now to get to a better future. This can be Your Legacy; you can help change the current course from a catastrophic outcome to a...
by admin | Feb 8, 2023 | News
Diet fads come and go, and, in the long run, don’t actually do much to help people keep off the weight that they may initially lose. So, what can potentially work, aside from exercise and eating healthy, like we talked about a few weeks ago? Do we really need three...
by admin | Feb 2, 2023 | News
At Taum Sauk Mountain, Missouri’s highpoint (1,772 feet), a light-colored rock can be found along the ground. Upon closer inspection, it is not a sedimentary rock, like one might expect in the middle of the contiguous United States. Instead, it is an igneous volcanic...
by admin | Feb 2, 2023 | News
As we’re at the International Blues Challenge this week, it follows that this week’s Science Wednesday is about music! Pitch is based on frequency relationships among sounds. The basic pitch structure is an interval, or a pair of frequencies presented melodically...
by admin | Jan 18, 2023 | News
A parade of strong storm systems has brought much needed relief to drought-stricken California over the last month. However, this is turning into a case of “too much of a good thing” as atmospheric rivers – long, narrow currents of exceptionally wet air – are...
by admin | Jan 11, 2023 | News
We hear about “healthy eating” all the time, but how does that actually transform into tangible and tasty meals when it comes time to eat? Healthy eating is much more about eating nutrient-dense foods than simply restricting calories. Just because a food is high in...
by admin | Jan 4, 2023 | News
It’s that time again – when resolutions are made for the New Year – when we’re extra motivated to tackle goals and put past failures behind us. But for the majority of people, these pledges last only a few weeks into the New Year. A research study dating back to the...
by admin | Jan 2, 2023 | News
Extreme weather events from 2022, ranging from heat waves to historic low river water levels to drought and wildfire, highlight a destabilized climate and a precursor of what’s to come in the future. The last few years have experienced cooling due to the La Niña...
by admin | Jan 2, 2023 | News
Some people – especially cruise-goers – may know the “polar plunge” as taking a dip in the frigid waters (like the Arctic or Antarctic Ocean). But another polar plunge, resulting in air temperatures 30 – 50 degrees lower than normal in some regions, is coming to the...
by admin | Jan 2, 2023 | News
Splitting and combining atoms both produce heat and energy. We’re already familiar with fission, as this is the process used in nuclear reactors and atomic bombs. It involves a large atom splitting into two or more smaller ones. Fusion, just as its name implies,...
by admin | Nov 30, 2022 | News
A few weeks ago, Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, situated on the island of Hawaii showed signs of activity such as low-magnitude earthquakes and inflation of the ground, testament to underground magma on the move. Just this weekend, the 74-mile behemoth...
by admin | Nov 23, 2022 | News
The Artemis I mission took off spectacularly last week and made a close approach to the Moon this week, inspiring hope for the next phase of planetary exploration. This includes a return of humans to the Moon and building a lunar base. Given the exposure to radiation...
by admin | Nov 23, 2022 | News
Over the last 200 million years, Antarctica’s climate has changed from a long-lived warm period during the age of the dinosaurs, when lush forests covered the land, to progressively cooler climates, to the ice-covered landscape we see today. Antarctica is also home to...
by admin | Nov 23, 2022 | News
We’re currently in the southernmost Argentine province, named Tierra del Fuego. The first Europeans (Spaniards during Magellan’s 1520 expedition) who came to explore the southern tip of South America saw the campfires of the native inhabitants of the area (the...
by admin | Nov 2, 2022 | News
Imagine walking down a beach and then suddenly seeing thousands of mismatched pairs of shoes – Nike shoes – washed up ashore. This actually happened in November 1990 along Oregon’s coast. Six months earlier, in May 1990, a storm struck a carrier en-route to the United...
by admin | Oct 26, 2022 | News
This week I’m at the National Adaptation Forum in Baltimore, Maryland, representing the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (University of Colorado Boulder). The Forum gathers the adaptation community to foster knowledge exchange, innovation, and mutual...
by admin | Oct 19, 2022 | News
It’s Science Wednesday! A few weeks ago, we heard about the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission that managed to successfully impact its target asteroid, Dimorphos. It was a first-of-its-kind mission, demonstrating usage of asteroid deflection technology in...
by admin | Oct 12, 2022 | News
While here in Albuquerque for an Early Career Workshop with the regional climate adaptation science centers, I fit in a trail run with friends and colleagues at the Piedras Marcadas Canyon. It offers a unique and beautiful insight into the geologic, cultural, and...
by admin | Oct 5, 2022 | News
This season has seen an active Atlantic, most recently with hurricanes Fiona and Ian, leading to loss of lives and causing billions of dollars of destruction in Puerto Rico, Cuba and Florida. Strong tropical cyclones, called hurricanes in the Atlantic, typhoons in the...
