A team of scientists scrambles to better understand a gigantic cloud of methane looming over the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest. This single cloud is believed to comprise nearly 10 percent of all methane emissions derived from natural gas in the United States. But its origins remain a mystery. The following article on the subject from pbs.org was written by Laura Santhanam and posted June 3, 2015 with the title “Why...
Read MoreAlumnus Paul Sutton (PhD 1999) is the Head of Discipline of environmental and geospatial sciences in the School of Natural and Built Environments at the University of South Australia, and, in the spirit of Jonathan Swift, he has a “modest proposal” vis-a-vis environmental sustainability: My name is Paul Sutton. I am currently a professor of Environmental Science at the University of South Australia. I’d like to...
Read MoreGraduate fellowship proposals to the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program are solicited annually from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of individuals pursuing master’s or doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Earth and space sciences, or related disciplines. The purpose of NESSF is to ensure continued training of a highly qualified workforce in disciplines needed to achieve NASA’s scientific goals. Awards...
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