I interviewed Thomas Zurburchen, the Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, for AGU’s Narrative StoryCorps initiative.
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Jenessa Duncombe
Artificial Intelligence Can Spot Plankton from Space
Eos — Training an algorithm with satellite images of ocean color reveals the blooms and busts of phytoplankton communities.
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Scientists Praise Urgency, Aggressive Plans in Climate Town Hall
Eos — Democratic candidates detailed their plans to address the “existential crisis” of our time. Climate scientists were happy to have a forum—and happier that it was substantive.
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Forecasting Solar Storms in Real Time
EOS.ORG — Predicting when solar storms will hit Earth remains a tricky business. To help, scientists can now submit their forecasts of coronal mass ejections online as they unfold in real time.
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Devastating Floods Hit India for the Second Year in a Row
EOS.ORG — The deadly floods raise questions of land use and extreme precipitation trends.
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Emissions Rollbacks
Eos — The suit argues that the administration is failing to curb carbon dioxide emissions as required under the Clean Air Act.
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What Wildfire Smoke Tells Us About Nuclear Winter
Eos — A cloud of smoke from 2017 Canadian wildfires was so huge that it self-lofted and stayed in the atmosphere for 8 months. Scientists used it as an example for climate simulations of nuclear warfare.
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Greenland Ice Sheet Beats All-Time 1-Day Melt Record
EOS.ORG — More ice melted from the ice sheet on 1 August 2019 than any other day on record.
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Newly Discovered Fossil Species Named After Star Wars Starship
EOS.ORG — The 500-million-year-old species is a distant relative of today’s crabs, spiders, and insects.
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Fossil Fuels Less Efficient Than Earlier Estimates
EOS.ORG — According to a new analysis, fossil fuel energy return on investment is on par with renewables.
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