The Geosciences Department in the Press
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LATEST PRESS
OSU was recently
ranked 6th nationally in
Geosciences by Science Watch, based on the citation impact of
published research.
- November 21 - Ed Brook and Logan Mitchell in an OSU Mentors Feature (featured in the highlights rotation on the OSU home page as well)
- November 20 - Aaron Wolf, graduate student Nate Eidem, and alumnus Todd Jarv
is are listed prominently as the lead references for the world's water resources
in the new National Geographic Atlas.
- November 14 - GIS Day at OSU to feature high-tech presentations for kids (OSU press release, Meyers, graduate student Michelle Kinzel)
Related link from Corvallis School District
- November 3 - Professor Researches Global Warming Trends in Antarctica (The Daily Barometer, Brook)
- October 20 - The Secret's Out: Tons of Water in Oregon's Cascades (The Oregonian, Jones, Grant, Campana)
- October 13 - Researchers Study Coastal Hazards of Increasing
Wave Heights, Rising Sea Levels (OSU Press Release, Ruggiero)
- October 7 - OSU Studies Show Oceans Contribute to
Warming (KGW TV News, Brook)
- September 29 - Digging Deeply (OSU Home Page "In the Spotlight" Feature, OSU geology alum Sarah Baxter, Dilles)
- September 19 - Carbon dioxide levels depended on ocean (EnvironmentalResearchWeb, Brook and Jinho Ahn)
- September 12 - Ice Core Studies Confirm Accuracy of Climate Models (ScienceDaily based on an article in Science, Brook)
OSU Press Release
- August 29 - Recap of President's Weekend 2008, Campaign for OSU (Gosnell, Grunder)
- August 8 - Hydrogeologists Tap into Demand for an Irreplaceable Resource (Science Careers from the journal Science, Haggerty)
- July 15 - Tour fan goes the distance (Covrvallis Gazette-Times, Meigs, Gosnell too)
2008 Tour de France blog
- June 7 - Prof Uses Spirituality to Stop Fights (Corvallis Gazette-Times, Wolf)
- June 2 - Wright Named to Ocean Studies Board
- May 27 - Geoscience Professor Gets Students Psyched for Conservation (The Daily Barometer, Cook)
- May 24 - Faculty Awarded for Geosciences Contributions (The Daily Barometer, Clark, Kahn, Wright, Brook)
- May 15 - Geosciences' Cook Donates Time to Community Service, Non-profit Volunteer Projects (OSU This Week, Cook in an article written by
Geosciences grad student John Klock)
- May 15 - How Humans are Putting
the Planet in Peril (Telegraph UK, Brook, based on his recent article in Nature)
- May 14 - Studies Confirm Greenhouse Mechanisms Even Further into Past (Brook)
- May 14 - Streams of Blood,
or Streams of Peace (The Economist, Wolf and colleagues)
- May 2 - Coffee Break with NASA Top Official for OSU (The Daily Barometer, grad student Bob Peckyno)
- April 29 - Ed Brook honored with a Leopold Leadership Fellowship. "Leopold Leadership fellowships focus on training, networking and outreach to help leading environmental scientists move ideas into action and advance science-based decision-making. Through a competitive application process, up to 20 scientists from the U.S., Canada and Mexico are selected each year as Leopold Leadership Fellows, participate in the training and become members of the Leopold Leadership network." (leopoldleadership.org)
- April 22 - OSU Kicks Off New Certificate (Wolf, L. de Silva, grad student Patrick MacQuarrie)
Story also picked up by the Associated Press, KTVZ in Bend, and OPB.)
Certificate Web Site.)
- April 3 - Global Career Began With a Hike (American Association of Petroluem Geologists Explorer profile of geology alumna Emily Oatney)
- March 9 - Clark, Brook featured in The History Channel Documentary, Journey to 10,000 BC (2nd hour)
- February 28 - Wright interviewed by NPR affiliate in Dallas (KERA 90.1, Think)
Podcast: Teaching Oceanography & the Geosciences
- February 11 - A Region's Vitality Melting Away (The Oregonian FRONT PAGE cover story, Nolin, grad student Jeff Phillippe)
- January 29 - An Atlas as Dynamic as the Coast (The Oregonian, Wright)
- January 25 -
Looking Inside a Volcano's Magma Chambers, 2000 Year Ago (COAS Ocean & Air feature, Tepley, S. DeSilva)
- January 18 -
Beaches Ravaged by Tsunami Still Eroding (Ruggiero)
- January 16 2008 - Wright, Martis Earn Best U.S. Professor Honors (Association of American Geographers Newsletter)
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2007
- December 24 - OSU Professor Finds Her Sea Legs (The Oregonian FRONT PAGE cover story, Wright, with grad student Michelle Kinzel, former student Todd Jarvis)
- December 7 - OSU Extended Campus Reports Significant Increase in Online Degree Enrollment (Nielsen)
- November 30 - Shaking Things up During Class (OSU Barometer, Wright, Wolf, Nielsen)
- November 29 - Wright named professor of year (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
OSU Home Page Spotlight | OSU Press Release |
UCSB Geog note
- November 21 - OSU Wades Deep Into Water Issues (Corvallis Gazette-Times, Wolf, L. de Silva)
- November 16 - Survey Reveals Conflict Between Natural Resource Ideals, Realities (Santelmann, OSU geography alum Kelli Larson)
- November 15 - Mapping Waypoint Corvallis (OSU Barometer cover story, grad student Michelle Kinzel and undergrad Sam Thomas)
- November 1 - OSU Sponsors "GIS Day" (and see OSU GIS Day Web Site)
- October 26 - Aaron Wolf featured on stage for water resources presentation at kickoff launch event for the $6 million Campaign for OSU
- October 26 - Anita Grunder and Ed Brook featured in OSU President's Report, 2007
- October 24 - Geologists: Collier Glacier Is Shrinking (The Los Angeles Times, Clark)
- October 17 - Mazamas Aid Glacier Study from Air (The Oregonian, Clark)
- October 5 - Campus Shocked by Death (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
George Moore Obituary
Distinguished Professor Dies in Car Accident (OSU Barometer)
- September 24 - Dinosaur Expert to Present 2007 Condon Lecture
- September 5 - OSU Conservation Biology Program
Ranked Best in Nation (Jones, Meyers, Gosnell, Matzke)
- August 31 - Climate Change Initiative Pools Funding of Various Researchers (Clark, OSU Barometer)
- August 24 - Steadying Campus Buildings (including Wilkinson! Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- July 24 - Seashore North of Columbia River Faces Major Erosion (Ruggiero)
- July 18 - NSF Awards $1.6 Million to OSU to Establish EarthScope National Office (Lillie, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
OSU Press Release
OSU Barometer
- July 13 - Coastal Mapping Experts to Meet at OSU (Wright)
- June 25 - Great Blue Engine (Wright and grad student Jed Roberts, OSU Terra feature)
- May 30 - Bottled Water Boom Has Environmental Consequences (Todd Jarvis)
- May 22 - Peter Clark has been awarded the 2007 Don J. Easterbrook Distinguished Scientist Award by the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America.
- The annual Easterbrook Distinguished Scientist Award was established
in 1999 to recognize individuals who have shown unusual excellence in
published research, as demonstrated by a single paper of exceptional merit or a series of papers that have substantially increased knowledge in Quaternary geology or geomorphology. The award includes $30,000 to support the recipient's research.
- May 8 - Charter School Back on Track (Grunder, Corvallis Gazette-Times cover story)
- May 4 - "Surface Faults" raise ante for quake risks (Yeats, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
OSU Press Release
- April 30 - Dawn Wright Honored by UC-Santa Barbara (OSU Today)
UCSB Geography Newsletter Report
- April 26 - Oil & Water in Corvallis (Todd Jarvis, Corvallis Gazette-Times cover story)
- April 3 - Forged in Fire (grad student Alan Tepley and Julia Jones, OSU Terra feature)
- April 3 - Grinding Out Lessons from the Earth (grad student Jeremiah Oxford, OSU Terra article)
- March 28 - Letter About Climate Change Error-filled (Brook, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- March 21 - Former Students Create Professorship in Honor of Earthquake Expert (Yeats Endowed Professorship)
- March 15 - OSU Leads Nation in Agricultural Research (OSU Geosciences mentioned, via Nielsen, Clark, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
New Rankings: OSU Leads the nation in Agricultural Research Scores High in Geoscience
OSU Grabs Top Rankings in Agriculture, Geosciences (OSU Barometer)
- March 4 - A Fat Wallet Runs Through It (Gosnell, The Oregonian)
- February 20 - Gas Movement a Key to Mount St. Helens Explosions (Kent, grad student Mike Rowe)
Oregonian snippet
- February 12 - The Coming Storm (Nolin, Medford Mail Tribune)
- February 1 - Naomi Wolf: Gender Equity is Within Reach (A. Wolf, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- January 29 - Andrews Forest Nominated for Major National Research Effort (Jones, Haggerty, and Daly are co-PIs, also in Eugene Register-Guard)
- January 26 - Initiative Striving to Find Answers to Water Issues (Campana, Wolf, OSU This Week)
- January 28 - Across the Divide (Wolf, Jones, and grad students Kristel Fesler and Nathan Eidem, OSU Terra feature)
- January 28 - The Ice Sages: The Arctic in Transition (Brook, Clark, Nolin, Meigs, OSU Terra sidebar)
- January 23 - Wikipedia & OSU: Many Stories, Many Authors, Many Editors (Wright, Update! OSU Research News)
- January 18 - Muddy Creek Charter School (Grunder, Dilles, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- January 17 - Waste Less, Save More (Steve Cook, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- January 16 - Scientists Warn of Diminished Earth Studies From Space (NY Times, Nolin involved in NRC report as Vice Chair of the Panel on Water Resoures and the Global Hydrologic Cycle)
Cutbacks Impede Climate Studies (Washington Post)
- January 9 - Author Naomi Wolf (sister of Aaron Wolf) to Speak on Ethical Leadership
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2006
- December 28 - Winter Seminar Series to Explore "Geovisualization"
- December 13 - Archive of History in Stalagmite (grad student Lica Ersek, Clark, Oregonian)
- December 12 - OSU Researchers Meet
to Discuss Global Warming (grad students Marcott, Shakun, plus Clark and Brook, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- December 4 - Geoscience Advisory Board Rocks On (Board of Advisors Anniversary Article)
- November 20 - Anne Nolin and Peter Clark,
as well as
Aaron Wolf and doctoral student Nate Eidem, all featured in OSU President's Report, 2006 (9 Mb pdf and jpg)
- November 17 - GIS, Shipwrecks and a Pirate: School kids learn about navigation at OSU (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- November 14 - OSU Joins International GIS Day Activities
- November 8 _
Ranches Work as Retreat for Rich (Gosnell, USA Today)
- November 1 -
Study Sees Shift Away from Ranching Near Yellowstone (Gosnell, Billings Montana Gazette)
- October 27 - City-Slicker Fat Cats Taking Over the West (Gosnell, California Central Valley Business Times)
OSU Press Release
- October 26 - Aaron Wolf featured on Faces of OSU Banner
- October 25 - Geographer gives VPAST Distinguished Lecture in Geospatial Technology at Kansas State (Wright, K-State New Service)
- October 2-
College of Science Honors Faculty and Staff (CONGRATULATIONS TO LARRY BECKER, JOANNE VAN GEEST, and MARK MEYERS!)
- September 28 -
Condon Lecture to Discuss Reduction of Greenhouse Gases
- September 22 - University Day Brings Awards, Speeches, Fun (Matzke keynote, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Matzke keynote online (MS-Word doc)
Matzke Tells Stories to Start OSU's Year (Research Office Newsletter)
- September 18 - "Water Wars" Loom? But None in Past 4500 Years (Wolf, Reuters-UK)
- September 5 -
Global Warming Could Trigger Methane Release (Schaefer, Oakland Tribune)
- August 24 -
Study Rules Out Ancient "Bursts" of Methane From Seafloor Deposits (Schaefer, Brook)
- July 21 - Da Vinci Days Puts Fun Face on Education (Geology Program)
- June 29 - Water, Water Everywhere (Peter Ruggiero)
- June 28 -
Research Team to Explore Past Climate, Looking for "Triggers" to Rapid Change (Ed Brook, Peter Clark, Steve Hostetler)
- June 28 -
OSU to Launch Two Research Projects Through Rurual Communities Initiative
(Hannah Gosnell)
- June 12 -
Congratulations to Geosciences '05-'06 Promotion and Tenure Recipients: Brook, Cook, Nolin, and Wolf (OSU This Week)
- June 12 -
Wright and Pancake to Serve on NRC Committee (OSU This Week)
- June 2 -
OSU Geographer Recognized for Outreach Efforts
- June 1 -
Maps Help Plow New Ground for Oregon Grass (Chris Daly, OSU Terra Research Magazine Feature)
- May 22 - Parks, Plates, Passion, and a Professor (Bob Lillie, National Park Service)
- May 2 - Samoa Research Proves Coral Reef Recovery Possible (Dawn Wright)
May 5 - Study Shows Threatened Eco-systems can be Rebuilt
(Radio New Zealand)
- May 2 - Dawn Wright Receives OABA Education Award
- Apr 27 - Corvallis Second in Nation in Percentage of Scientists
- Apr 6 - Dawn Wright featured on Faces of OSU Banner
- Mar 27 - Mount Hood Glaciers Melting (San Diego Tribune, Peter Clark, pdf)
- Mar 23 - Geosciences Seminar to Address Energy, Environmental Issues
- Mar 22 - Experts Propose Major Mapping Program on Oregon Coast (Dawn Wright)
Mar 26 - Researchers Propose Ambitious Seafloor Mapping Project (Oregonian, Associated Press, pdf)
Apr 7 - OSU Seeks to Map Oregon Ocean Floor (Gazette-Times, pdf)
Apr 7 - Researchers Propose Seafloor Mapping Project (Marine Technology Reporter)
Apr 7 - OSU Researchers Propose Sea Floor Map Plan
(Los Angeles Times, 4/10/06, pdf)
- Mar 15 - Award-Winning [Ph.D.] Student Marloes Bakker (Open Minds, OSU Graduate School Newsletter, Winter 2006)
- Mar 9 - Study Offers Preview of Ice Sheet Melting, Rapid Climate Changes (Peter Clark, Ed Brook, Vincent Rinterknecht)
Mar 14 - Study Offers Preview of Ice Sheet Melting, Rapid Climate Changes (NASA.gov)
- Mar 8 - Warmer Winters May Melt Ski Spots (Oregonian pdf, Anne Nolin, Chris Daly)
Mar 7 - Global Warming Poses Risk to Pacific Northwest Snowpack, Ski Spots (OSU Press Release)
Mar 12 - Warming Tempertures Could Diminish Olympic Mountains Snowpack Study Suggests (Peninsula Daily News)
- Mar 6 - Incoming OSU Director Campana to Join Klamath River Committee (Michael Campana)
- Mar 2 - Forum Debates Science Ethics (Corvallis Gazette-Times, Thursday, Ed Brook, Isaac Daniel)
- Feb 21 - OSU Hosts Forum on Scientific Ethics (also in Corvallis Gazette-Times, Saturday, 2/25/06, Ed Brook)
- Feb 15 - BLM Action Over Study is Troubling
(Corvallis Gazette-Times, Wednesday, scroll down, Bob Yeats)
- Feb 14 - Inavale parents dispute closure recommendation
(Corvallis Gazette-Times, Tuesday, Anita Grunder)
- Feb 5 - Geography grad student Jon Michael Bosley quoted as Chairman of the Graduate Student Senate, in Gazette-Times article (Corvallis Gazette-Times, Sunday)
- Feb 1 - Geosciences faculty members Wolf, Santelmann, Gosnell, and Meyers to receive Institute for Water and Watersheds research grants
- Jan 8 - Cool Science (Corvallis Gazette-Times, Sunday, front page, Ed Brook)
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NEWS FROM 2005
- Dec 15 - Dawn Wright to Speak in Presidential Plenary
Session (AAG Newsletter, pdf)
- Dec 15 - Geosciences Faculty Secure Research Equipment Reserve Fund awards (Haggerty
and Tepley in '05-'06, and Nolin, Dilles, and Meyers in the past)
- Dec 5 - Water Conflicts in Africa Strain Political, Economic Systems (Aaron Wolf)
- Dec 2 - OSU Student Leads Earthquake Relief Effort in Pakistan (Wiley Thompson)
- Nov 27 - Old Ice Gives New Clues to Climate Change (USA Today, Ed Brook, pdf)
- Nov 28 - OSU News Release
- stories on this topic have appeared in more than 170 media since Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005
- Nov 24 - OSU Geosciences Office Staff Support
GIS Day (OSU This Week)
Featured also on www.gisday.com (p. 2)
- Nov 17 - Initiative: Ecologists, Computers, and Math (OSU This Week,
Julia Jones, pdf)
- Nov 15 - Ed Brook featured in OSU President's Report, 2005 (pdf)
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Nov 10 - "GIS Day" to Explore Geographic Technology
- Nov 16 - Quick Navigation (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- Nov 16 - Oregon State GIS Group Gets Ready to Map your World (Barometer)
- Nov 10 - Initiative: Sustaining Rural Communities (OSU This Week,
Roger Nielsen, pdf)
- Oct 28 - Earthquake History Offers Lessons to Hurricane Survivors (OSU News, Monika Moore)
- Oct 27 - Initiative Invests in State's Water Future (OSU This Week pdf, Oct. 27, Roy Haggerty)
- Oct 24 - OSU Space Program Helps Schoolkids Aim High, Dream Big (OSU News, Ron Rinehart)
- Oct 20 - Rapid Breakup Of Glaciers Raising Sea Level Concerns (OSU News, Oct. 20, Peter Clark)
- Oct 13 - Why Was South Asia Hard Hit by Major Quake? (National Geographic
News, Bob Yeats)
- Sep 27 - Expert to Discuss the Great Sumatran Earthquake (Kerry Sieh for 2005
Condon Lecture, in 9/28/05 Oregonian also)
- Sep 27 - College of Science Honors Faculty and Staff (Ron Doel, Dawn Wright, Bob Lillie)
- Sep 12 - Geology Workshops Give Rangers Lay of their Lands... (San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Lillie)
- Sep 9 - New System to Provide Better View of Marine Biology (Corvallis Gazette-Times, Dawn Wright)
- Sep 7 - Fall (2005) Saturday Academy Programs to Begin Soon
- Aug 22 - New Book, Initiatives Showcase Geology, National Parks (Bob Lillie)
- Jul 18 - Geography Program announces a new 2-year minority graduate fellowship for 2005'-06: Application of Geographic Information Science to Ocean and Coastal Resources Management
For additional info.
- Jun 1 - Emeritus Prof. Bob Frenkel Honored (Albany Democrat-Herald)
- May 16 - Studies Unclear on Vog's (Volcanic Smog's) Effects (pdf, Honolulu Advertiser, B. Longo and Anita Grunder, from their Geology article)
- May 9 - Africa Night Right on Beat (Barometer, grad student Biniam Iyob)
- Apr 29 - Dawn Wright featured in Science Magazine, AAAS Science's Next Wave (pdf)
- Apr 27 - OSU Estimates Top Quake California Area Could Bear (pdf, Oregonian, Bob Yeats)
- Apr 21 - As I See It: 'Citizens' Ignored in Warming Response (Corvallis Gazette-
Times, Op-Ed, Steve Cook)
- Apr 21 - Bob Lillie Presents at OSU Discovery Days (pdf)
- Apr 21 - Water, Water Everywhere, Hebrew University (Jersualem Post [pdf], Aaron Wolf while on sabbatical)
- Mar 10 - Initiative to make OSU Leader in Ecosystem Informatics [pdf]
- Mar 1 - Dr. Anita Grunder is featured as a source of inspiration for Dr. Margaret Hiza in her profile found in the Spring 2005 Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans newsletter [pdf]
- Mar 1 - Geosci Faculty/Programs in Spring 2005 Graduate School Newsletter
- Feb 28 - New Study: Long-Spewing Hawaiian Volcano May be Health Risk also appeared in Corvallis Gazette-Times
- Feb 22 - 25 Years Later, Volcano Research is Booming
- Feb 17 - OSU Initiative to Delve Into Complexities of Water
- Feb 17 - Sea Grant Names Fellows in Washington, D.C. (Emily Larkin)
- Jan 11 - Sea Legs Author Kathleen Crane to Speak at OSU
Jan 4 - (pdf, Gazette-Times Announcement)
Jan 18 - (pdf, Gazette-Times Recap)
- Jan 3 - Tsunamis More Likely to Hit U.S. than
Asia (pdf, National Geographic, Bob Yeats)
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NEWS FROM 2004
- Dec 30 - Memories of Tsunamis Hitting American Shores Have Largely Faded (pdf, Kansas City Star, Bob Yeats)
- Dec 27 - Similar Tsunami Possible on West Coast (Bob Yeats)
- Dec 17 - New GIS Mapping Tool May Reduce Soil Erosion in China (Chris Daly)
- Nov 17 - Kids Find Their Way: GPS Devices Guide Young Visitors
to OSU Campus (Corvallis Gazette-Times coverage of GIS Day)
- Nov 9 - Melting Glacier Serves as Example and a
Warning (pdf, New York Times, Peter Clark)
- Nov 9 - The Impacts of Global Warming are
Arriving
(pdf, Oregonian Op-Ed, Sherm Bloomer w/Mark Abbott)
- Anders Carlson (Ph.D. student in
Geology) received the 2004 J. Hoover Mackin Award from the Geological
Society of America for his proposal "A Holocene chronology of the
Laurentide Ice Sheet, North America."
- Oct 29 - Sixth Annual GIS Day to be Celebrated at OSU (including special program for 200 local middle schoolers)
- Oct 6 - Anita Grunder on Ash from Mt. St. Helens Eruption (pdf, Oregonian
article)
Barometer article
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Oct 1 - GEO 300, taught by Steve Cook, listed
by Barometer as among
the top 5 Bacc Core classes on campus
- Oct 1 - Seismologist Ross Stein of the U.S. Geological Survey will present the 2004 Condon Lecture at Oregon State University. His title is "Earthquake Conversations" will be at the LaSells Stewart Center on the OSU campus, Wednesday, October 6, at 8:00 p.m. It is free and open to the public. More info
- Sep 30 - Andrew Meigs Eyes Mt. St. Helens
- Andrew Meigs received the
Loyd Carter award from the College of Science for Outstanding and
Inspirational Teaching (Graduate Level). In addition, Aaron Wolf was
the other nominee for that award, and Anita Grunder was a nominee for
the Undergraduate Carter award. Congratulations for this well deserved
recognition.
- Ed Brook has been awarded $300,000 by the Gary Comer Foundation to fund post-doctoral and advanced graduate research on the relationships between abrupt climate change and greenhouse gas variations recorded in ice cores. He is currently looking for two postdoctoral researchers for work on
trace gases in ice cores (funding from the Gary Comer Foundation and
NSF), and there are also opportunities for graduate students in a
number of areas. Please contact him by email for more information.
Accompanying OSU News Release on Ed Brook
- Sep 10 - New Degrees and Certificates
- Sep 1 - Peter Clark's research on the glacial history of Ireland is highlighted in the September 2004 issue of National Geographic
- Aug 24 - OSU's Dawn Wright Receives Fulbright Award
- Aug 12 - New Earth System Science Center Building
- May 27 - OSU Professor Helps Children a World Away, (Barometer, Steve Cook)
- Apr 8 - Matzke Honored by Professional Organization
- Feb 30 - Teaching with Writing Newletter, Winter 2004 (PDF)
Highlights our very own Dr. Bob Lille's dedication to helping undergraduate students improve there writing skills using a sequenced writing assignment during his 10 week course in Geophysics and Tectonics.
- Feb 27 - Barometer followup - "Smart Mapping" Below the Surface"
- Feb 13 - Coastal Atlas Allows Personalized "Smart Maps"
- Jan 26 - OSU Geosciences' Chris Daly Honored by Metereological Society
- Jan 14 - "Deepsea Dawn" Maps the Ocean Floor (Daily Barometer)
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NEWS FROM 2003
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