NSF Discoveries -- Geosciences http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/ Discoveries for Geosciences posted on the NSF website, http://www.nsf.gov. en Fri, 24 May 2013 00:01:24 EDT Life on a Coral Reef: Insult Is (Sometimes) Added to Injury http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127834&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Giant barrel sponges off Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean next to a researcher. Overfishing removes predatory fish that keep sponges from smothering corals
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127834&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Trail of Fire Leads to Less Snow, Threatened Water Resources http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127739&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Photo of smoke from a forest fire going up in to the sky Scientists study New Mexico's Rabbit Mountain, where forests burned in the 2011 Las Conchas fire
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127739&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Earth Week: The Search for White Gold--Snowmelt http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127580&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Image of melting snow and the text Photo Gallery Thin snowpack puts ecosystems and water resources in critical condition
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127580&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Understanding How Space Turbulence Works http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127634&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Graphic showing daughter Alfven wave Researcher conducts supercomputer simulations to learn impacts on Earth's magnetic field
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127634&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Advances in Computational Research Transform Scientific Process and Discovery http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127385&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Map of Antarctica NSF-supported supercomputers enhance union between technology and the human mind
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127385&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Blue Mussels "Hang On" Along Rocky Shores: For How Long? http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127342&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Cartoon showing a threatening wave scaring blue mussels Mussels' anchors--byssal threads--weakened by ocean acidification
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127342&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 "Defective" Virus Leads to Epidemic of Dengue Fever http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127103&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 close up of a mosquito on skin Virus may have led to widespread disease in Myanmar in 2001
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127103&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 El Yunque, Majestic Rocky Icon of Puerto Rico: Impervious to the Ravages of Time? http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126969&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Phot of the mountain peak El Yunque Anvil-shaped promontory formed inside an ancient supervolcano
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126969&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Underwater Whodunit: What's Killing Florida's Elkhorn Coral? http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126918&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Scientists Dusty Kemp and Meredith Meyers under water in the Florida Keys. Scientists solve Caribbean coral mystery: human pathogens cause marine invertebrate deaths
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126918&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Yellowstone Ecosystem Needs Wolves and Willows, Elk and...Beavers? http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126853&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Close up image of a beaver. Scientists plot crucial links among Yellowstone plant and animal species
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126853&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Adélie Penguins Cope With Climate Change http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126692&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 image of penguins near the ocean water Facing the future: it all depends on sea ice
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126692&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Jellyfish "Blooms" Wax and Wane in Natural Cycles http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126630&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Jellyfish known as "sea tomatoes" on Cable Beach in western Australia Research shows blooms follow periodic global oscillations
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126630&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 High-Peak Creeks, Forest Fires and Landscape Erosion: Could They Be Linked? http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126540&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Research area in Gordon Gulch, Colo., part of NSF's Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory. Colorado's Boulder Creek watershed: where rushing streams, raging blazes and the Rockies meet
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126540&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Cooking Up Clean Air in Africa http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126403&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Woman cooking over an open fire Reducing air pollution and meningitis risk in Ghana
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This is an NSF Discoveries - Geosciences item.]]> http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126403&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Snails in the Waters, Disease in the Villages http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126031&WT.mc_id=USNSF_8 Photo of a man examining water for infectious snails in coastal Kenya. Treatment for snail-borne schistosomiasis works best over the long haul
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