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Revealing an invisible ecological world
Greg Asner and others use the new Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System to look into the universe in a whole new way.
American West's changing climate spells economic changes, too
The State of the West Symposium, hosted by the Bill Lane Center for the American West and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, featured a discussion of the Western United States' future of extreme heat, declining snowpack, and what it all means for the region's industry, electricity generation and policy.
Stanford Libraries acquire the archives of leading environmentalist William McDonough
Stanford Libraries will create a "living archive" with the visionary who is considered to be the leading environmental architect of our time.
News Clips
A Climate Scientist Braves the Wilds of Social Media
Andy Revkin of the NY Times conducts a video interview with Noah Diffenbaugh for a class at Pace University.
Determining the age of crystals in the SHRIMP lab at Stanford
In a Wired Science blog, a geosciences professor from Denison University anticipates using advanced analytical technologies in a lab managed jointly by the U.S.Geological Survey and the Stanford School of Earth Sciences.
Chris Field: West Coast at risk for hybrid storms
"The Bay Area and California are very prone to flood damage," said Chris Field, professor of environmental earth system science at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences, and director of the global ecology department at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University. "We do face a real risk of flooding during winter storms coupled with high sea level. If we get a big rainstorm combined with high sea level and high tide, we have a risk for a tremendous amount of damage."
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