EOS.ORG — When huge planetary waves that spawn in the open ocean reach land, they can raise local sea levels along the coast. Could tracking these waves help scientists predict flooding months in advance?
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Jenessa Duncombe
How Forecasting Models Are Changing the Way We Fight Fires
EOS.ORG — As the wildfire season continues to blaze, scientists at the National Weather Service have been turning to satellites and numerical models to aid firefighters on the ground.
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Severe Drought May Have Helped Hasten Ancient Maya’s Collapse
EOS.ORG — For centuries, the Maya people relied on rain to keep them alive. But then, suddenly, the skies went dry.
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Just How Anomalous Is the Vast Baltic Sea Dead Zone?
EOS.ORG — Newly drilled cores from the Baltic Sea reveal 1,500 years of deoxygenation history. The record sheds light on the dire state of the Baltic Sea today.
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July Fourth: A Rock Guide to Fireworks
EOS.ORG — Before a firework was red, it was a strontium salt waiting for its moment.
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Photos from the Field: When the beach is your laboratory
Follow two coastal engineers as they take images of rip currents on beaches using a drone and radar towers.
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Eyes from the Sky
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY — The radar tower stretches into the sky. Walking up the beach, Annika O’Dea and Alex Simpson point it out, a single structure overlooking the dunes.
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Featured Scientist: Marnie Jo Zirbel
WOMEN IN SCIENCE — Marine technician Marnie Jo Zirbel shares her career path from a curious undergraduate in biology to working as a faculty research assistant at OSU for 15 years.
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Science Communication Workshop
This April, I co-led a Science Communication Workshop for Oregon State University researchers. The goal of the workshop was to teach scientists to distill their research into a clear message for specific audiences.
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Shelf Awareness
ELEMENTS — In the last days of summer in 1982, Jack Barth prepared to leave for his first trip out to sea. He was 21 years old, fresh out of his bachelor’s degree program and about to start his graduate studies in physical oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He had traveled from Colorado to the waters of San Francisco Bay to help his soon-to-be graduate advisor collect instruments from a nearby ocean field site.
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