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List of works by Richard A. Kerr

'Mammoth-Killer' Nothing More Than Fungus and Bug Poop ⬇️

2010 Science news article by Richard A. Kerr

2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Salt fingers mix the sea

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

A Better Fit for the Plate Tectonic Puzzle: Reanalysis of geophysical data helps reconcile estimates of San Andreas fault motion and reduces the earthquake hazard

scientific article

A New Way to Ask the Experts—Rating Radioactive Waste Risks

scientific article published in Science

A New Way to Forecast Next Season's Climate: A new mathematical technique that makes 90-day climate forecasts by searching the historic record does as well as humans

scientific article published in April 1989

A Passion for the Little Things Among the Planets: The Poor Man's Grand Tour of the Solar System

scientific article published in November 1989

A Wizard of Middle Earth Under Fire: For 10 years Raymond Jeanloz has been shaking up mineral physics; now he is facing some major tests himself

scientific article published in November 1989

A job well done at pinatubo volcano

scientific article

A lunar meteorite and maybe some from Mars

scientific article published on April 1983

A roller-coaster plunge into martian water--and life?

scientific article published in December 2010

A stronger IPCC report

scientific article

A warmer Arctic means change for all

scientific article published in Science

A wetter, younger Mars emerging

scientific article published in August 2000

AAS Division for Planetary Sciences. An even drier-looking moon

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

AAS Division for Planetary Sciences. Snapshots from the meeting

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

AAS Division for Planetary Sciences. The Kuiper belt loses some of its mystery

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

AAS Division for Planetary Sciences. Titan lives--geologically, at least

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: Pollute the Planet for Climate's Sake?

scientific article published in Science

Adaptation to climate change. Time to adapt to a warming world, but where's the science?

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

African lakes as alternative oceans

scientific article

After Loma Prieta, Uncertainty Remains: The forecasting of last fall's Loma Prieta earthquake has reemphasized the vagaries of quake prediction

scientific article published on August 1990

American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. Ocean warming model again points to a human touch

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

American Geophysical Union meeting. A lively core turns Mercury into an enormous electromagnet

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

American Geophysical Union meeting. An early start for greenhouse warming?

scientific article published in Science

American Geophysical Union meeting. An ill-mannered San Andreas?

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

American Geophysical Union meeting. Climate tipping points come in from the cold

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

American Geophysical Union meeting. Getting a quick read on the biggest tsunami earthquakes

scientific article published in Science

American Geophysical Union meeting. Of Mars water, old cold, and deep talk

scientific article published in June 2002

American Geophysical Union meeting. Of ocean weather and volcanoes

scientific article published in January 2002

American Geophysical Union meeting. Scary Arctic ice loss? Blame the wind

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

American Geophysical Union meeting. Snapshots from the meeting

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

American Geophysical Union meeting. Vicissitudes of ancient climate

scientific article published in January 2004

American Geophysical Union meeting. What's going on in Saturn's E ring?

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

American Geophysical Union. A new recipe for cooking up a 'mini solar system'

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

American Geophysical Union. Another way to take the ocean's pulse

scientific article

American Geophysical Union. Predicting Icelandic fire and shakes

scientific article published in January 2001

American Geophysical Union. Snapshots from the meeting

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

American Geophysical Union. Tectonic blow ended mountain building, fired up volcanoes

scientific article published in January 2011

American Geophysical Union. Volcanic blasts favor El Niño warmings

scientific article published in January 2003

American Geophysical Union. What heated up the Eocene?

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

American Geophysical Union. Worry but don't panic over glacial losses

scientific article published in January 2011

An Early Glacial Two-Step?: The most recent ice age seems to have exited in two steps, the earlier one perhaps coming sooner than had been thought possible

scientific article published in July 1983

An Encouraging Long-Term Quake "Forecast": The anticipation of the size and location of last April's Morgan Hill earthquake was two-thirds of a prediction; predicting a precise time remains out of reach

scientific article published in July 1984

An about-face found in the ancient ocean

scientific article published in September 1991

An erythrocyte transketolase isoenzyme pattern associated with the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

scientific article

An impact but no volcano

scientific article published on May 1984

An unnerving preview of a northern california quake?

scientific article published in January 1995

Ancient and modern, rock and fluid meet in san francisco

scientific article published in January 1993

Ancient river system across Africa proposed

scientific article published in August 1986

Ancient rocks, rhythms in mud, a tipsy venus: magellan finds a flock of venusian volcanoes

scientific article

Ancient tropical climates warm San Francisco gathering

scientific article published in January 1994

Another Try at Forecasting El Nino: There are signs in the Pacific Ocean, and in some mathematical models, that an El Nino is on the way, but most experts remain cautious

scientific article published on April 1986

Another california seismic hot spot

scientific article published in August 1989

Another panel rejects nevada disaster theory

scientific article published on April 1992

Antarctic glacier off its leash

scientific article published in January 2010

Archaeology: Sea-Floor Dust Shows Drought Felled Akkadian Empire

scientific article published in Science

Arctic drilling. A modest drop in a big bucket

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Are we alone in the universe?

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Asian tsunamis. Model shows islands muted tsunami after latest Indonesian quake

scientific article published in Science

Asteroid Impact Gets More Support: The global distribution of shocked quartz at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary argues for an asteroid or comet impact and against a volcano as a cause of the mass extinction

scientific article

Astrobiology science conference 2006. Diversity before life

scientific article published in April 2006

Astrobiology science conference 2006. Life slow enough to live on radioactivity

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Astrobiology. Are Martian 'pearl chains' signs of life?

scientific article published in March 2001

Astrobiology. In the hunt for the red planet's dirtiest secret

scientific article published in August 2012

Astronomy. Alien planetary system looks a lot like home

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Astronomy. Priorities nearer to home in need of better cost estimates

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Astronomy. Why is the solar system so bizarre?

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Astronomy. Why is the sun's corona so hot?

scientific article published in June 2012

Astrophysics. Deep ringing of the sun hints at a speedy core

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Atmospheric evolution. New look at ancient mineral could scrap a test for early oxygen

scientific article

Atmospheric science. Changes in the sun may sway the tropical monsoon

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Atmospheric science. Global warming may be homing in on Atlantic hurricanes

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Atmospheric science. Is Katrina a harbinger of still more powerful hurricanes?

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Atmospheric science. Making clouds darker sharpens cloudy climate models

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

Atmospheric scientists puzzle over high-altitude flashes

scientific article

Boom and bust at jupiter

scientific article published on February 1992

Breakthrough of the year. A disaster and a warning--but of what?

scientific article published on December 2011

Breakthrough of the year. Doing science remotely

scientific article published in December 2004

Breakthrough of the year. Global warming, hotter than ever

scientific article published in Science

Breakthrough of the year. On Mars, a second chance for life

scientific article

CLIMATE CHANGE: Big El Niños Ride the Back of Slower Climate Change

scientific article published in Science

CLIMATE CHANGE: Politicians Attack, But Evidence for Global Warming Doesn't Wilt

scientific article published in Science

CLIMATE: Ice, Mud Point to CO2 Role in Glacial Cycle

scientific article published in September 2000

CLIMATOLOGY: Does a Climate Clock Get a Noisy Boost?

scientific article published on October 2000

California's Quakes Forecasted: The first official earthquake forecast for California emphasizes the broad extent of the hazard and the uncertainties involved in predicting the next quakes

scientific article published in July 1988

Capturing El Nino in Models: The physical mechanism that makes a model produce El Ninos is an oscillator in the tropical Pacific; whether the models and reality coincide remains unclear

scientific article published on December 1987

Carbon Dioxide and a Changing Climate: A National Research Council view of the carbon dioxide greenhouse includes inevitable climatic warming but no certain disasters

scientific article published on November 1983

Carbon trading. House vote seen as big step toward cooling the greenhouse

scientific article published in Science

Case of von Recklinghausen's Disease (Neuro-fibromatosis).

scientific article published on January 1921

Chilly ice-age tropics could signal climate sensitivity

scientific article published on February 1995

Climate Modeling's Fudge Factor Comes Under Fire

scientific article published in September 1994

Climate change. 'Arctic armageddon' needs more science, less hype

scientific article published on August 2010

Climate change. A bit of icy Antarctica is sliding toward the sea

scientific article published in Science

Climate change. A far-south start for ice age's end

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Climate change. A few good climate shifters

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Climate change. A perfect ocean for four years of globe-girdling drought

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Climate change. A single climate mover for Antarctica

scientific article published in Science

Climate change. A worrying trend of less ice, higher seas

scientific article

Climate change. Amid worrisome signs of warming, 'climate fatigue' sets in

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Climate change. Another global warming icon comes under attack

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Climate change. Atlantic climate pacemaker for millennia past, decades hence?

scientific article

Climate change. Atlantic current can shut down for centuries, disrupting climate

scientific article published in February 2014

Climate change. Both of the world's ice sheets may be shrinking faster and faster

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Climate change. Chinese cave speaks of a fickle sun bringing down ancient dynasties

scientific article published in November 2008

Climate change. Clouds appear to be big, bad player in global warming

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Climate change. Confronting the bogeyman of the climate system

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Climate change. El Niño lends more confidence to strong global warming

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Climate change. El Niño or La Niña? The past hints at the future

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Climate change. Global warming coming home to roost in the American West

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Climate change. Global warming is changing the world

scientific article published in Science

Climate change. Hedging your climate-change bets

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Climate change. Humans and nature duel over the next decade's climate

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Climate change. Humans are driving extreme weather; time to prepare

scientific article published in Science

Climate change. Humans fueled global warming millennia ago

scientific article published on 01 November 2013

Climate change. In the hot seat

scientific article

Climate change. Is a thinning haze unveiling the real global warming?

scientific article

Climate change. Is battered Arctic Sea ice down for the count?

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Climate change. Joining forces to pump up a variable sun's climate effects

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Climate change. Major challenges for Bush's climate initiative

scientific article published in July 2001

Climate change. More science and a carrot, not a stick

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Climate change. NRC reports strongly advocate action on global warming

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Climate change. Panel gives U.S. program mixed grades

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Climate change. Pollutant hazes extend their climate-changing reach

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Climate change. Pushing the scary side of global warming

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Climate change. Record U.S. warmth of 2006 was part natural, part greenhouse

scientific article published in Science

Climate change. Reducing uncertainties of global warming

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Climate change. Scientists tell policymakers we're all warming the world

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Climate change. Sea change in the Atlantic

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Climate change. Study challenges cosmic ray-climate link

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Climate change. Three degrees of consensus

scientific article

Climate change. U.S. policy: a permanent sea change?

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Climate change. Warming Indian Ocean wringing moisture from the Sahel

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

Climate change. What happened to global warming? Scientists say just wait a bit

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Climate change. Yes, it's been getting warmer in here since the CO2 began to rise

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Climate prediction. Seasonal-climate forecasts improving ever so slowly

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Climate prediction. Signs of success in forecasting El Niño

scientific article published in July 2002

Climate research. Right direction, but a long way to go for Bush's plan

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Climate science. The IPCC gains confidence in key forecast

scientific article published in October 2013

Climate. A surprise La Niña

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Climate. Little girl lost

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Climatologists Feel the Heat As Science Meets Politics ⬇️

scientific article published on December 17, 2010

Climatology. A tempestuous birth for hurricane climatology

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Climatology. Latest forecast: stand by for a warmer, but not scorching, world

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Comets Appear to Be Rosetta Stones: After their closest look yet, astronomers are increasingly hopeful that comets are largely unaltered since the formation of the solar system and perhaps even earlier

scientific article

Commotion over Caribbean impacts

scientific article

Compact Discs Shrinking Data Storage Costs: The CDs that offer 75 minutes of unsurpassed Bach are now providing 600 megabytes of geophysical data at bargain prices

scientific article

Computer Models Gaining on El Nino: Simulations of the ocean and of the atmosphere during an El Nino give hope for models coupling the two and hint at why mid-latitude effects are so variable

scientific article published in July 1984

Curricular integration to enhance educational outcomes

scientific article published in October 2000

Dancing with death at unzen volcano

scientific article

Darker clouds promise brighter future for climate models

scientific article published on January 1995

Deep life in the slow, slow lane

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Deep rocks stir the mantle pot.

scientific article published in May 1991

Deep-sea drilling. Same crew to run new program

scientific article published in Science

Deep-sea drilling. Scientific drill ship to be reborn

scientific article published in Science

Did Darwin get it all right?

scientific article published in March 1995

Did a burst of volcanism overheat ancient Earth?

scientific article published in February 1991

Did the Tropical Pacific Drive The World's Warming?

scientific article published on October 1994

Did the mammoth slayer leave a diamond calling card?

2009 news article by Richard Kerr published in Science

Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. Amazing shrinking Kuiper belt objects

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. Did Jupiter and Saturn team up to pummel the inner solar system?

scientific article

Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. Hydrocarbon seas of Titan gone missing

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. Snapshots from the meeting

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Do California Quakes Portend a Large One?: Far from the San Andreas fault, three lines of evidence hint at a large earthquake striking within the next decade

scientific article published in September 1986

Do NASA Images Create Fantastic Voyages?

scientific article published on March 1992

Do we have the energy for the next transition?

scientific article published in August 2010

Does california bulge or does it jiggle?

scientific article

Domesday Book of the World's Volcanoes

scientific article published on August 1981

Drilling into Surprises Beneath an Inyo Crater: Volcanologists got a shock recently when they drilled through a volcano; it had not erupted the way they thought

scientific article

E.T. search. No din of alien chatter in our neighborhood

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

EARTH SCIENCE: Did Volcanoes Drive Ancient Extinctions?

scientific article

Earliest animals growing younger?

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Early climate data questioned

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Early life thrived despite earthly travails

scientific article published in June 1999

Earth science. A better atmosphere for life

scientific article published in June 2005

Earth science. The story of O2.

scientific article published in June 2005

Earth scientists assemble atop an ancient rift

scientific article published in November 1992

Earth's Surface May Move Itself

scientific article

Earthquake Prediction: After the Quake, in Search of the Science--or Even a Good Prediction

scientific article published in Science

Earthquake prediction. A quake may have hinted that it was on the way

scientific article published in Science

Earthquakes: prediction proving elusive

scientific article

East coast mystery booms: mystery gone but booms linger on.

scientific article published in January 1979

El chichon forebodes climate change

scientific article

Energy supplies. Bumpy road ahead for world's oil

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Energy supplies. If not cheap oil ...

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Energy supplies. Peak oil production may already be here

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Energy. Gas hydrate resource: smaller but sooner

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Energy. Natural gas from shale bursts onto the scene

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Energy. Not under my backyard, thank you

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Energy. World oil crunch looming?

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Environment. First detection of ozone hole recovery claimed

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

European Deep Drilling Leaves Americans Behind: Ambitious American plans to compete in the race to inner Earth have fallen prey to budget cuts and shifting motivations

scientific article published in August 1989

European climate. Mild winters mostly hot air, not Gulf Stream

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Evolution. A trigger for the Cambrian explosion?

scientific article published in November 2002

Evolution. Could poor nutrition have held life back?

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Evolution. Did an asteroid shower kick-start the great diversification?

scientific article published in December 2007

Evolution. Did an impact trigger the dinosaurs' rise?

scientific article published in May 2002

Evolution. Evolutionary pulse found, but complexity as well

scientific article published in September 2001

Evolution. Putting limits on the diversity of life

scientific article

Evolution. Stretching the reign of early animals

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Evolution. When fittest survive, do other animals matter?

scientific article

Exoplanetary science. First Goldilocks exoplanet may not exist

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

Exoplanets. Jupiter's brother joins the family

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Exoplanets. Kepler snags super-Earth-size planet squarely in a habitable zone

scientific article published in April 2013

Exoplanets. Winking star unveils planetary birthplace

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Experts find no evidence for a mammoth-killer impact

news article published in March 2008

Extrasolar planetology. Jupiters like our own await planet hunters

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Extrasolar planets. I spy...a cold, little planet

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Facing a Final Exam at Neptune: Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus have taught many lessons about the outer planets; but will they apply to Voyager 2's last port-of-call, the still mysterious planet Neptune?

scientific article published on August 1989

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 14-18 December 2009, San Francisco, California. Magnetics point to magma 'ocean' at Io.

scientific article

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 5-9 December 2011, San Francisco, California. Megaquake heightened the risk to Tokyo

scientific article published in December 2011

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Buildup to quakes spied in both model and real world

scientific article published on 01 December 2012

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Could mother nature give the warming Arctic a reprieve?

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Galloping glaciers of Greenland have reined themselves in

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. No lake mud for Curiosity rover to investigate?

scientific article published on 01 December 2012

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Snapshots from the meeting

scientific article published in Science

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Snapshots from the meeting

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Snapshots from the meeting

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Tang hints of a watery interior for Enceladus

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The earthquake that will eat Tokyo

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Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The many dangers of greenhouse acid

scientific article published in January 2009

Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Tying megaeruptions to a mass extinction long after the fact

scientific article published in December 2012

Fathers and children profile. Inheriting the family science

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Fifteen Years of African Drought: The well-publicized 1972 sub-Saharan drought never went away, but, despite its magnitude and persistence, it is neither a human creation nor unique

scientific article published on March 1985

Flows on Mars but no water

scientific article presented at Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 14-18 December 2009, San Francisco, California.

Forecasting of Severe Storms Improved: A combination of sophisticated technology and human skills can improve short-term forecasting of severe thunderstorms

scientific article published on February 1984

Forecasting pushed too far.

scientific article published on June 1989

Forecasting the Weather a Bit Better: A new computer model provides a distinct improvement in short-range forecasting, but you may not notice much of a difference by looking out the window

scientific article published on April 1985

Fossils tell of mild winters in an ancient hothouse

scientific article published in August 1993

From One Coral Many Findings Blossom: Old coral from drowned Barbados reefs is yielding measures of everything from glacial ice to Earth's magnetic field

scientific article published in June 1990

GEODYNAMICS: A Lively or Stagnant Lowermost Mantle?

scientific article published in Science

GEODYNAMICS:A Lava Lamp Model for the Deep Earth

scientific article published in Science

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING: Geologists Pursue Solar System's Oldest Relics

scientific article published on December 2000

GEOPHYSICS MEETING: Scientists Ponder Deep Slabs, Small Comets, Hidden Oceans

scientific article published in Science

GEOPHYSICS: Core Takes a Page From the Sea Floor

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GEOPHYSICS: Earth's Inner Core Is Running a Tad Faster Than the Rest of the Planet

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GREENHOUSE WARMING: Dueling Models: Future U.S. Climate Uncertain

scientific article published on June 2000

Galileo hits a snag

scientific article

Gary Comer profile. An entrepreneur does climate science

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Gauging volcanic blast hazards not so simple

scientific article published on June 1981

Geochemistry. A shot of oxygen to unleash the evolution of animals.

scientific article published in December 2006

Geochemistry. Gasping for air in Permian hard times

scientific article published in April 2005

Geochemistry. Geologists find vestige of early Earth--maybe world's oldest rock

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

Geochemistry. Great oxidation event dethroned?

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Geochemistry. Has lazy mixing spoiled the primordial stew?

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Geochemistry. Humongous eruptions linked to dramatic environmental changes

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Geochemistry. In mass extinction, timing is all.

scientific article published in September 2004

Geochemistry. Isotopes suggest solar system formed in a rough neighborhood

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Geochemistry. Minerals cooked up in the laboratory call ancient microfossils into question

scientific article published in November 2003

Geochemistry. New geochemical benchmark changes everything on Earth

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Geochemistry. The Andes popped up by losing their deep-seated rocky load

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Geochemistry. Two geologic clocks finally keeping the same time

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Geochemistry. Where has all the stardust gone?

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Geological Society of America meeting. Pacific migration arrested by meltdown's high waters

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Geological Society of America meeting. Wanderlust in the western margin

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Geological Society of America. Life--potential, slow, or long dead

scientific article

Geologists Get Together to Dissect Earth's Thin Skin

scientific article published in November 1993

Geology. A time war over the period we live in

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Geology. A trace of the earliest plate tectonics turns up in Greenland

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Geology. How much coal remains?

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Geophysicists celebrate two satellites, mourn a third

scientific article published on June 1994

Geophysicists take a tour around the solar system

scientific article published on June 1992

Geophysics. Hammered by India, puttylike Tibet shows limits of plate tectonics

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Geophysics. Opening the door to a chilly new climate regime

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Geophysics. Scoping out unseen forces shaping North America

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Geophysics. Solid rock imposes its will on a core's magnetic dynamo

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

Geophysics. Stealth tsunami surprises Indonesian coastal residents

scientific article published in Science

Geophysics. Threshold crossed on the way to a geodynamo in a computer

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Geophysics: Deep-Sinking Slabs Stir the Mantle

scientific article published in Science

Geophysics: ancient air, ozone, and faults

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Geoscience. The Quaternary Period wins out in the end

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Geosciences. A call for telling better time over the eons

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

Glaciology. Antarctic ice's future still mired in its murky past

scientific article published in July 2011

Glaciology. Experts agree global warming is melting the world rapidly

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

Glaciology. Greenland ice slipping away but not all that quickly

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Glaciology. Melting glaciers, not just ice sheets, stoking sea-level rise

scientific article published in Science

Glaciology. Winds, not just global warming, eating away at the ice sheets

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Global change. A quick (partial) fix for an ailing atmosphere

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

Global change. A slowing cog in the North Atlantic ocean's climate machine

scientific article published in April 2004

Global change. Climate plan gets a qualified go-ahead

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Global change. Forecasting regional climate change flunks its first test

scientific article published in February 2013

Global change. Getting warmer, however you measure it

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Global change. No doubt about it, the world is warming

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Global change. The psst that pierced the sky is now churning the sea.

scientific article

Global change. Who pushed whom out of the last ice age?

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Global climate change. False alarm: Atlantic conveyor belt hasn't slowed down after all

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Global climate change. The Atlantic conveyor may have slowed, but don't panic yet

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Global warming. Another side to the climate-cloud conundrum finally revealed

scientific article published on February 2008

Global warming. Arctic summer sea ice could vanish soon but not suddenly

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Global warming. Climate change hot spots mapped across the United States

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Global warming. How urgent is climate change?

scientific article published in Science

Global warming. Hurricanes won't go wild, according to climate models

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Global warming. Millennium's hottest decade retains its title, for now

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Global warming. Models foresee more-intense hurricanes in the greenhouse

scientific article published in Science

Global warming. Mother nature cools the greenhouse, but hotter times still lie ahead

scientific article published in Science

Global warming. Nobel Peace Prize won by host of scientists and one crusader

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Global warming. Rising global temperature, rising uncertainty

scientific article published in April 2001

Global warming. Soot is warming the world even more than thought

scientific article published in January 2013

Global warming. The greenhouse is making the water-poor even poorer

scientific article published in Science

Good news for volcano watchers

scientific article

Greenhouse science survives skeptics

scientific article published on May 22, 1992

Greenhouse warming. Climate modelers see scorching future as a real possibility

scientific article published in Science

Growing Prospects For Life on Mars Divide Astrobiologists ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill. A lot of oil on the loose, not so much to be found

scientific article

Gulf oil disaster. Five questions on the spill

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Gulf oil disaster. How to kill a well so that it's really most sincerely dead

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Gulf oil spill. Government chided for poor planning and communication

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

Gulf oil spill. Will Deepwater Horizon set a new standard for catastrophe?

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Hansen vs. the World on the Greenhouse Threat: Scientists like the attention the greenhouse effect is getting on Capitol Hill, but they shun the reputedly unscientific way their colleague James Hansen went about getting that attention

scientific article

High-tech fingers on Earth's erratic pulse

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Higher education. Recession hits some sciences hard at Florida State University

scientific article published in January 2010

How Wet the Moon? Just Damp Enough to Be Interesting ⬇️

scientific article published on October 22, 2010

How does Earth's interior work?

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

How hot will the greenhouse world be?

scientific article published in Science

How to Fix the Clouds in Greenhouse Models: Climate models are moving toward the realistic simulation of clouds needed to calculate the size of the greenhouse warming

scientific article published in January 1989

Hubble glimpses a hazy day on Mars

scientific article published on March 1995

Hurricane forecasting shows promise

scientific article published on February 1990

Hurricane-Drought Link Bodes Ill for U.S. Coast: The sub-Saharan drought has eased, perhaps ended, but that may mean more killer storms like Hugo

scientific article published on January 1990

Hydrology. Northern India's groundwater is going, going, going ...

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Hydrology. River-level forecasting shows no detectable progress in 2 decades

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Ice Cap of 30 Million Years Ago Detected: The oxygen isotopes of marine sediments are providing strong indirect evidence of an Antarctic ice cap twice as ancient as the present one.

scientific article published in April 1984

Ice-Free Arctic Sea May Be Years, Not Decades, Away ⬇️

scientific article published on September 28, 2012

If meteorites come from Mars..

scientific article published on August 1987

Impact cratering. A big splat in the asteroid belt doomed Earth's dinosaurs

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Space science. NASA reining in PI-led planetary missions

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Space weather forecasting. Are we ready for the next solar maximum? No way, say scientists

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Stalking the Next Parkfield Earthquake: Testing hypotheses at the Parkfield section of the San Andreas already bears a strong resemblance to earthquake prediction

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Strontium isotope dating achieves useful precision

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Suture between north america and Africa found

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Tectonics on venus: like that of ancient Earth?

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Tectonics. An early date for raising the roof of the world

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Tectonics. Pumping up the Tibetan Plateau from the far Pacific Ocean

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Ten years later: whence the moon?

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Testing an Ancient Impact's Punch

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The Global Warming Is Real: An analysis of the effect of urban growth on U.S. climate records shows that a century of global warming is real; the magnitude of future warming remains uncertain

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The Moon Influences Western U.S. Drought: An 18.6-year cycle of Great Plains drought related to lunar tide turns up in the record previously used to support only a sun-weather relation

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The Sun Again Intrudes on Earth's Decadal Climate Change

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The deep Earth machine is coming together

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The parallel route to an ocean model

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The stately cycles of ancient climate

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The volcano behaves itself--sort of.

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There May Be More Than One Way To Make a Volcanic Lake a Killer: Limnologists, feeling neglected in the first rush of news from the Cameroon disaster, are suggesting that volcanism need play no role in the generation or release of toxic gases

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Tracking a Stormy Beast in the Night: Weather satellites have revealed thunderstorms organized into unexpectedly large nighttime rainstorms over the central United States

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Tracking the Wandering Poles of Ancient Earth: New analyses support the contention that Earth's poles have wandered across the globe, at times as fast as continental drift

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Treasuring the moon for 20 years

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Tropical meteorology. A cloudy crystal ball for the coming season's hurricanes

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U.S. Geological Survey. Pioneering geophysicist tackles newest challenge

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U.s. Oil and gas fields double in size

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Ultrasensitive fluorescent proteins for imaging neuronal activity

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VEGA's 1 and 2 Visit Halley: Soviet spacecraft obtain photos showing Halley is king of the comets

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Venus is looking more like Earth than Mars

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Venusian Geology Coming into Focus: New radar images of the surface of Venus from Soviet spacecraft reveal a relatively active planet that may resemble the early Earth

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Volcanic hazard alert issued for california

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Volcanism at 100{degrees} Below

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Volcanism on Mercury And the Moon, Again: Opinions on the nature of smooth, bright plains on these look-alike bodies have varied in tandem--now such plains on Mercury and some on the moon look volcanic

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Volcanoes Can Muddle the Greenhouse: Cleaning up climate records reveals that the largest volcanic eruptions cool the climate for a few years, complicating identification of the greenhouse warming; climate disasters loom too.

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Volcanoes may warm locally while cooling globally

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Volcanoes to Keep an Eye on: The western United States has scores of volcanoes likely to erupt in the future; some of them may be waking from long slumbers

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Volcanoes with bad hearts are tumbling down all over

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Volcanoes, quakes, and the connectedness of things

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Volcanoes: Old, New and--Perhaps--Yet To Be.

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Weather Satellites Coming of Age: After 25 years, observations from satellites have become clearly useful in weather forecasting by computers, but only for some places at some times

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Weather forecasting way out there

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Weather forecasting. Can northern snow foretell next winter's weather?

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Weather forecasting. Huge Pacific waves trigger wild weather half a world away

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Weight limit for mass spectroscopy raised

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What can replace cheap oil--and when?

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What makes a volcanic lake a killer?

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When a Radical Experiment Goes Bust: A $40-million gas well drilled in Sweden has come up dry, but that doesn't discourage the maverick American scientist who sold the Swedes on prospecting in a most unlikely place

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When disaster rains down from the sky.

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Where was the moon eons ago?

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Whither Arctic ice? Less of it, for sure

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Who profits from ecological disaster?

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William K. Hartmann profile. Renaissance man of the solar system

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