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Prof. Emeritus Victor Barcilon, applied mathematician and geophysical scientist, died April 15, 2020. He was 81. A longtime professor at the University of Chicago, Barcilon showed a gift for using a ...

Most people are content with being a passenger in the air. Growing up, Tiffany Shaw and her family loved flying. When she was just 16 years old, she got her pilot’s license. She did not realize then ...

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica—often called the "Doomsday Glacier"—is one of the fastest-changing ice–ocean systems on ...

Applied Geophysics U.S.S.R. Edited by Dr. Nicholas Rast. Pp. 429. (London and New York: Pergamon Press, 1962.) 100s. net. Fundamental Problems in Turbulence and Their Relation to Geophysics ...

A group of students in the geophysical sciences department are demanding that professor Dorian Abbot be removed from his position as Department Website and Social Media Committee Chair in response to ...

James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The AGU fellows are a select group of distinguished ...

WASHINGTON - On 27 May 2005, the AGU Council adopted the position statement, "NASA: Earth and Space Sciences at Risk." The statement describes the impact of NASA's strategic plan, "A New Age of ...

News-Miner opinion: If there is a crown jewel in the University of Alaska system, it is, almost inarguably, the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It was created 75 years ago ...