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...that these cities are growing, which means more and more people will be living in seismological danger zones. The key to minimizing damage is to prepare for the inevitable. "The Loma Prieta quake was really a wake-up call for this region," says David Schwartz, a USGS geologist and the co-chair of the San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake Alliance. "But we still have a lot to do." (See pictures of Indonesia's devastating earthquake...
...Planetary Sciences research associate. “I think his strength is that he does a number of things very well.” As a student, Mukhopadhyay says he loved studying chemistry but was wary of becoming a pure chemist. Yet, because his father had been a field geologist in India, he did not want to study geology either. “Marrying chemistry to understanding the earth,” he says, provided the perfect fit and allowed him to reconcile his interests. Mukhopadhyay says he remembers his interest in noble gas geochemistry being piqued as a graduate...
...longer save our compatriot. We are going to try to punish his killers.' RADEK SIKORSKI, Polish Foreign Minister, after the Taliban released a video of the beheading of a Polish geologist in Pakistan. It was the first such killing of a Western citizen there since the 2002 murder of Daniel Pearl...
...that ancient air can reveal the temperature, the concentration of greenhouse gases, even the ambient dust from the year that layer was formed. It's like tree rings but for climatic history. "In order to predict the future, we have to understand the past," says Minik Rosing, a geologist at the University of Copenhagen...
...Outlook Is Always Bright Here!" I was already feeling grumpy about all this when I watched a lecture by the University of Miami's renowned coastal geologist Harold Wanless. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had predicted a sea-level rise of up to 2 ft. by 2100, but Wanless meticulously explained why 3 ft. to 4 ft. is much more likely - assuming the world can slash carbon emissions enough to slow global warming. I live in Miami Beach, so I didn't care for his PowerPoint slide showing much of Miami Beach under water. "That...