BOULDER, Colorado, Aug. 26 (TNSres) -- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences issued the following news: * * * New Fellow uses data science and qualitative methods to understand global change processes * * * CIRES is excited to welcome a new Fellow: Katherine Siegel, an interdisciplinary environmental scientist and assistant professor in the Department of Geography, where she'll teach courses in the Earth Data Analytics certificate program. Siegel's research examine  more

BOULDER, Colorado, Aug. 29 -- Geology, a peer-reviewed journal from the Geological Society of America that says it covers all earth-science disciplines, published research articles on the following topics in its Sept. 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 52, No. 9): * Turbidity currents regulate the transport and settling of microplastics in a deep-sea submarine canyon * Fingerprinting enhanced floodplain reworking during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Southern Pyrenees (Spain): Implications fo  more

BOULDER, Colorado, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research issued the following news release: * * * New research may lead to more accurate forecasting of active hurricane periods * * * More accurately predicting periods of increased hurricane activity weeks in advance may become possible due to new research published this month. The study, led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), shows that twice as many hurric  more