1+ week, 3+ day ago   (69+ words) Sarah Stanley, a freelance writer for Eos, has a background in environmental microbiology but covers a wide range of science stories for a variety of audiences. She has also written for PLOS, the University of Washington, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Medicine,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (258+ words) As environmental conditions change, it is increasingly important to understand the structure and properties of the Earth’s critical zone, the layer where rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms meet and interact. While several geophysical methods provide images of the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (625+ words) From Grains to Bands: Modeling Deformation in Porous Rocks eos.org Highly porous rocks, such as sandstones, often deform in a surprising way: instead of breaking apart or sliding, they develop thin zones called deformation bands. In these bands, the…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (639+ words) In 2019, researchers collected a 9.5-meter ice core from Austria’s Weißseespitze ice cap, which covers the top sections of Gepatschferner Glacier in the eastern Alps, near the Austrian-Italian border. They analyzed 18 trace elements and organic acids in the core to paint…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (566+ words) Next Generation Fluid Flow Solver for Earth System Modeling eos.org Source: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Today’s Earth System Models (ESMs) fail to inherently obey conservation laws such as total energy and therefore resort to ad hoc…...