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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>AGU Blogosphere</title> <atom:link href="http://blogs.agu.org/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>http://blogs.agu.org</link> <description>A Community of Earth and space science blogs</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:08:28 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4</generator> <item> <title>Fasset Glacier, Alaska Retreats from Tanis Lake</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/fromaglaciersperspective/2017/04/26/fasset-glacier-alaska-retreats-tanis-lake/</link> <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:08:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mauri Pelto]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[alaska glacier retreat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alaska glacier separates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fasset Glacier retreat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Glacier retreat alaska]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tanis Lake Glacier retreat]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://33.20102</guid> <description><![CDATA[Fasset Glacier in 1987 and 2016 Landsat images.  Red arrow indicates glacier front in 1987, pink arrows indicates areas where glacier retreat has exposed rock/bare ground and purple dots indicate snowline. Fasset Glacier drains west from The Brabazon Range near Yakutat and had terminated in Tanis Lake for the entire 20th century.  (Truessel et al 2013) and Truessel et al (2015) note the reapid retreat and thinning of nearby Yakutat Glacier. …]]></description> </item> <item> <title>New study challenges long-held tsunami formation theory (plus video)</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2017/04/26/new-study-challenges-long-held-tsunami-formation-theory-plus-video/</link> <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:06:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[llipuma]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Geohazards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ocean sciences]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tsunami]]></category> <category><![CDATA[natural disasters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[natural hazards]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://15.19213</guid> <description><![CDATA[A new study is challenging a long-held theory that tsunamis form and acquire their energy mostly from vertical movement of the seafloor. The finding validates an approach developed by researchers that uses GPS technology to detect a tsunami’s size and strength for early warnings.]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Pseudocraters at Lake Mývatn, Iceland</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2017/04/26/pseudocraters-lake-myvatn-iceland/</link> <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:20:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Callan Bentley]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[GEODE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gigapan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[iceland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[m.a.g.i.c.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[volcano]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://19.23689</guid> <description><![CDATA[Near the southern end of Lake Mývatn, astride the Mid-Atlantic Rift in northern Iceland, lies a field of "pseudocraters" that result from steam explosions beneath a fresh lava flow. Put on your head-net and join us to check it out!]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Sea level rising faster now than during 1990s, new study shows</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2017/04/26/sea-level-rising-faster-now-1990s-new-study-shows/</link> <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[llipuma]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cryosphere]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Geophysical Research Letters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Greenland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sea Level rise]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://15.19179</guid> <description><![CDATA[Global mean sea level is rising 25 percent faster now than it did during the late 20th century largely due to increased melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a new study shows. Satellites first started measuring sea level rise in 1993. The new study revisits how well these measurements agree with independently observed changes in the various components contributing to sea level rise. ]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Strong earthquake widely filmed in Chile</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/tremblingearth/2017/04/25/strong-earthquake-widely-filmed-chile/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:19:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Austin Elliott]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Earthquake Footage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Earthquake News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category> <category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[footage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hazard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shaking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tsunami]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tsunamiwarning]]></category> <category><![CDATA[warningsiren]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://29.2630</guid> <description><![CDATA[A swarm of magnitude ~5-6 earthquakes offshore Chile on April 23 was punctuated two days later by a much larger M6.9 earthquake yesterday evening. While nobody could have specifically predicted the size and timing of this earthquake, it is a terribly unsurprising event, occurring as it did in the midst of this swarm of heightened seismic activity, and in the highly seismically hazardous region of coastal Chile. As has been pointed out …]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2017/04/25/hidden-figures-margot-lee-shetterly/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:17:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Callan Bentley]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[moon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://19.22476</guid> <description><![CDATA[I haven’t yet seen the blockbuster movie Hidden Figures, but I’ve heard great things about it. This post is about the book it’s based on, also called Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly. It chronicles the work of numerous African-American women at NASA and its predecessor organization, NACA, through the middle of the last century. The book is a robust documentation of these women’s childhoods, educations, motivations, and lives. It …]]></description> </item> <item> <title>The 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal: two years on</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2017/04/25/2015-gorkha-earthquake/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:39:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Petley]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Earthquake-induced landslide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[erathquake]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gorkha]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nepal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wenchuan]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://14.23625</guid> <description><![CDATA[On the second anniversary of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, a recent paper compares the landslide distributions for the Nepal and China earthquakes. The results have profound implications for the understanding of potential landslide distributions from future earthquakes.]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Global fossil groundwater resources—the grandkids like hanging out with the grandparents!!!</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/waterunderground/2017/04/24/global-fossil-groundwater-resources-grandkids-like-hanging-grandparents/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 23:12:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Gleeson]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[contamination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[groundwater]]></category> <category><![CDATA[groundwater; isotopes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[research]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[groundwater depletion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[groundwater flow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[groundwater systems]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://39.1929</guid> <description><![CDATA[Post by Scott Jasechko, University of Calgary Groundwater is the world’s largest family of fresh and unfrozen water, and its members range from young to old. There are toddler groundwaters recharged more recently than the year ~1960. Our earlier research showed that these modern groundwaters make up only a small share of global groundwater stocks (Ref. 1 and Water Canada). But what of ancient ‘fossil’ groundwater—defined as groundwater that first …]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Notes from March for Science, Philadelphia, PA</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/geoedtrek/2017/04/24/philly-march/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 01:54:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Guertin]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[#marchforscience]]></category> <category><![CDATA[#scienceisessential]]></category> <category><![CDATA[#scienceserves]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[March for Science]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://32.7142</guid> <description><![CDATA[Thoughts while marching in Philly... Many people were busy arguing whether we “should” have to March for Science, but it was important for us to remember that we “could” march]]></description> </item> <item> <title>The bizarre world wherein we march for science</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2017/04/24/bizarre-world-wherein-march-science/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:56:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Callan Bentley]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[dc]]></category> <category><![CDATA[policies & politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[science & society]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://19.23609</guid> <description><![CDATA[I marched on Saturday. In spite of the congested conditions in both the local atmosphere and my sinuses, I felt compelled to add my voice and presence to the March for Science, an event that was probably the first of its kind since the Enlightenment, aiming to push back against anti-science attitudes from the current occupant of the White House and his contemporaries on Capitol Hill. I tried to keep …]]></description> </item> <item> <title>An experiment I’m willing to try: Reflections on the CASE workshop</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/thebridge/2017/04/24/experiment-im-willing-try-reflections-case-workshop/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Timia Crisp]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://30.6797</guid> <description><![CDATA[Editor’s note: The following post is written by Rachel Kirpes, a graduate student at University of Michigan and the 2017 AGU-sponsored CASE workshop participant.  Earlier this month I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. for a three-day science policy workshop organized by AAAS – Catalyzing Advocacy for Science and Engineering (CASE). I arrived in D.C. early enough the first day to do some sightseeing before the workshop, …]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Study finds pond expansion a significant factor in loss of Mississippi delta land</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2017/04/24/study-finds-pond-expansion-significant-factor-loss-mississippi-delta-land/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:22:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[llipuma]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Geology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Geophysical Research Letters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[erosion]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://15.19157</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wind-driven expansion of marsh ponds on the Mississippi River Delta is a significant factor in the loss of crucial land in the Delta region, according to new research. The study found 17 percent of land loss in the area resulted from pond expansion, much of it caused by waves that eroded away the edges of the pond. ]]></description> </item> <item> <title>What now? Now we go to work.</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/sciencecommunication/2017/04/24/now-now-go-work/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:56:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[shanlon]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Public outreach]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SciArt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SciComm]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SciComm Action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[science and society]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science in plain English]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Visuals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AGU]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plainspoken scientist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science and art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[science communication]]></category> <category><![CDATA[science outreach]]></category> <category><![CDATA[science policy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sharing Science]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://5.7048</guid> <description><![CDATA[By Shane M Hanlon I’m a scientist who teaches scientists how to talk to non-scientists. I recognized the need for this type of instruction years ago when I was still a graduate student. Even when I first got my position in the Sharing Science program here at AGU, scientists were increasingly aware of the need to be able to effectively communicate their science to broad audiences but many were still …]]></description> </item> <item> <title>The Wellington earthquake landslide problem</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2017/04/24/wellington-earthquake-landslide-problem/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 06:58:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Petley]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Earthquake-induced landslide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category> <category><![CDATA[risk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wellington]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://14.23602</guid> <description><![CDATA[A few days ago a newspaper in New Zealand highlighted the potential Wellington earthquake landslide problem. Research is ongoing into this key issue]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Thousands Stand Up for Mankind’s Greatest Invention- Science</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2017/04/23/thousands-stand-mankinds-greatest-invention-science/</link> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2017 02:52:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Satterfield]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AGU]]></category> <category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[March for Science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[science education]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://20.46988</guid> <description><![CDATA[Thousands of scientists from around the world did something that seemed unimaginable a few years ago. They stood up and made their voices heard in defense of science. Thousands of scientists braved a steady light rain and cool temperatures to gather on the Mall in Washington today and then marched toward the Capitol. The rain was not a surprise because the forecast for the day was nearly spot-on (thanks to …]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Toledo March for Science</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/terracentral/2017/04/22/toledo-march-science/</link> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2017 12:34:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[John Freeland]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lakes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rivers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Water Quality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[great lakes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Langmuir currents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maumee River]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Toledo March for Science]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://12.4784</guid> <description><![CDATA[Off to Toledo to March for Science! Updates later this morning!]]></description> </item> <item> <title>March for Science: Wellington, New Zealand</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2017/04/22/march-for-science-wellington-1/</link> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:39:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Petley]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Photo gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[March for Science]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://14.23529</guid> <description><![CDATA[Today I was honoured to attend, In Wellington, the first of the over 600 March for Science events that are occurring all over the world. ]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Friday (coal)d</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2017/04/21/friday-coald/</link> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 22:34:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Callan Bentley]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[appalachian plateaus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[coal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[folds]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Friday Fold]]></category> <category><![CDATA[west virginia]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://19.23595</guid> <description><![CDATA[Often I feature a fold photo here on Friday, but today I give you a folded coal, so therefore a “coald” – this is from the Pennsylvanian Conemaugh Formation on the Alleghany Plateau in West Virginia, near Bismarck. Photo by Sebastian Andres Kaempfe Droguett.]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Heidi Gottschall, InternView: Putting your path into focus</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/onthejob/2017/04/21/heidi-gottschall-internview-putting-path-focus/</link> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:43:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[AGU Career Center]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Early Career Advice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[InternView]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://42.950</guid> <description><![CDATA[Heidi Gotschall worked as an intern at AGU last fall.  One of the many projects she worked on during her time here was our new Pathfinder Beta tool.  In today’s blog, Heidi reflects on what she learned while working on the project.  You can learn more about Pathfinder Beta at the end of the article. I never knew the answer to the question of what I want to do when …]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Yakutat Glacier Terminus Collapse, 10 km retreat 1987-2016</title> <link>http://blogs.agu.org/fromaglaciersperspective/2017/04/21/yakutat-glacier-terminus-collapse-10-km-retreat-1987-2016/</link> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:31:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mauri Pelto]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[alaska glacier retreat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alaska glacier collapse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yakutat glacier collapse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yakutat glacier retreat]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://33.20062</guid> <description><![CDATA[Landsat images from 1987 and 2016 with terminus indicated by yellow dots. Point A indicates the 1987 terminus location and Point E the 2016 terminus location.  The Yakutat Glacier during the 1894-1895 Alaskan Boundary Survey ended near a terminal moraine on a flat coastal outwash plain. By 1906 the glacier had retreated from the moraine and a new lake was forming. Harlequin Lake. Surveys of the terminus of the glacier indicated …]]></description> </item> </channel> </rss>