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- Ocean Exploration and Space Exploration Should Receive Equal Funding?
- Engaging Students at Teacher’s Expense
- Oxygen in Earth’s Mantle
- Aftershock Earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand
- First Measurements of the Magnetic Field in Earth’s Core
- West Virginia Marcellus Shale Map
| Ocean Exploration and Space Exploration Should Receive Equal Funding? Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:27 PM PST Kevin Ulmer, a guest investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, makes a strong argument that the oceans should receive as much funding for exploration as is being spent to explore space – maybe they should receive more? |
| Engaging Students at Teacher’s Expense Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:13 PM PST An article at CNN explores two topics: how to engage students and how these engagements are often paid for. School budgets are tight and many teachers regularly pay for equipment and materials out of their own pocket. School budgets have always been tight but they are especially distressed these days. If you would like to help with this situation why not visit the Donor’s Choose website and help fund a project on a subject that you enjoy? |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2010 07:28 PM PST “While there continues to be considerable debate among geologists about the availability of oxygen in the Earth's mantle, recent discoveries by a University of Rhode Island scientist are bringing resolution to the question.” Quoted from the University of Rhode Island press release. |
| Aftershock Earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand Posted: 28 Dec 2010 05:46 PM PST Aftershocks from the September 4, magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand damaged over 100 buildings. One of the aftershocks was a very shallow magnitude 4.9 earthquake that caused very strong shaking. |
| First Measurements of the Magnetic Field in Earth’s Core Posted: 28 Dec 2010 05:24 PM PST A University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the magnetic field inside Earth’s core, 1,800 miles underground. |
| West Virginia Marcellus Shale Map Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:22 AM PST The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey has published a one-page summary sheet for drilling activity in the Marcellus Shale. The map shows the location of completed and permitted wells, Marcellus Shale isopach lines and major fold axes. |
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