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Thawing Permafrost: Feeds Arctic Microbes, Climate Change
Scientists at Florida State University are researching the fate of carbon released from during the thawing of long frozen permafrost soils in the arctic. According to their Geophysical Research Letter...
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Groundwater flow is now better monitored following new study
Accurate measurement of water flow has been for years difficult to perform, not to mention prediction of the water's path which is easily altered by the smallest soil details. Very fine details diverg...
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Video: NASA generated landslide map reveals most landslide prone areas!
Rain-induced landslides have hit a death toll of nearly 20,000 since 2007. For an overview of the landslides' locations NASA has updated the open source Global Landslide Catalog. The video released by...
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Tracing Chemical Contaminants in the Subsurface
As water scarcity becomes an ever larger problem, Felipe de Barros, assistant professor at the University of Southern California, is working to find new methods of predicting pollution in groundwater....
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Using Glow-in-the-Dark Tampons to Identify River Pollution
Engineers at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom have been using the seemingly unconventional method of tracking glowing tampons in a water body to identify areas of pollution from waste...
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Twitter to help in real-time flood map generation!
As a flooding event is still in progress, real-time information on its extent and the population affected is difficult to obtain, putting rescue crews and associated agencies in a difficult position i...
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Seismic hazard for British Columbia - Alaska region is complicated new study finds
Coast of British Columbia and south eastern Alaska are frequently hit by strong earthquakes originating from a complex system of faults that give high magnitude shakes. The close examination of the tw...
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Earthquake history of Istanbul hidden in seabed soil samples
Although earthquakes along the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) have been very frequent and devastating to the city of Istanbul, recurrence rate has been difficult to evaluate as faults are located offshor...
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Huge Floods Sculpt Colorado’s Mountain Landscape
Heavy rains in 2013 lead to devastating floods of rock, soil, and water through many cities and towns that line the Colorado Rockies. Scientists are now considering the importance of large, rare, inde...
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Web-Based Class Projects on Rock Mechanics by University of Michigan Students available now for everybody to review!
Students from the University of Michigan who are taking this semester the graduate level course CEE 544 on “Rock Mechanics” have prepared their class projects online. Students from the...
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