NSF Earth Sciences Express Update - Summer 2020
August 6, 2020
A Vision for NSF Earth Sciences 2020-2030: Earth in Time |
Staff Changes |
New Talent |
Solicitation Updates |
Upcoming Conferences with EAR Participation |
Dear Colleague Letters |
The EAR Communications Team has developed four activity worksheets aimed at elementary school students. Topics include paleobiology, plate tectonics, photomicrographs, and the hydrologic cycle. The worksheets are available for download here. |
Upcoming Webinars |
EAR-funded Research in the News |
Mississippi Delta marshes in a state of irreversible collapse, study shows Airborne science discovers complex geomorphic controls on Bornean forests Scientists find much earlier birth date for Earth's tectonic plates Ecohydrologists show environmental damage from loss of fog is observable from outer space Volcanic activity and changes in Earth's mantle were key to rise of atmospheric oxygen Nature's 'slow lanes' offer hope for species feeling heat of climate change, other pressures Bedrock type under forests greatly affects tree growth, species, carbon storage Volcanic coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 252 million years ago Pesticides speed the spread of deadly waterborne pathogens Stream pollution from mountaintop mining doesn’t stay put in the water Evaluating controls on orogenic structural style by constraining the spatio-temporal evolution of a retroarc thrust belt Mantle data imply a decline of oxidizable volcanic gases could have triggered the Great Oxidation Displaced cratonic mantle concentrates deep carbon during continental rifting The predictable chaos of slow earthquakes Seismic evidence for subduction-induced mantle flows underneath Middle America Modeling Fluid Migration in Subduction Zones |
Community News |
Check Out NSF’s Science Zone Radio to hear what NSF funded researchers are up to! You can also follow NSF’s Science Matters blog to read NSF stories about transforming the world through science, from Earth’s poles to black holes. |
“Every Rock Has A Story” Educational Video Series |
Colgate Mantle Plumes Seminar and Resource Repository – Award 1347731 |
NSF's "4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About " Video Series |
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