Earth Sciences
Earth Sciences (also referred to as Geosciences), which deals with basic issues surrounding our planet, plays a vital role in the area of energy and raw materials supply.
Earth Sciences comprises subjects such as geology, geography, geological informatics, paleontology, mineralogy, petrography, crystallography, geophysics, geodesy, glaciology, cartography, photogrammetry, meteorology and seismology, early-warning systems, earthquake research and polar research.
Gondwana Supercontinent Underwent Massive Shift During Cambrian Explosion
Gondwana made up the southern half of Pangaea, the giant supercontinent that constituted the Earth’s landmass before it broke up into the separate continents…
Inaugural deployment of buoys to measure air and sea interactions in typhoons launched from Taiwan
The R/V Revelle, a Scripps research vessel departed from the port of Kao-hsiung, Taiwan with two tandem buoy sets onboard: the boat-shaped EASI (Extreme…
Greenland Glacier Calves Huge Ice Island
“In the early morning hours of August 5, 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland,” said Andreas Muenchow, associate…
Greenland glacier gives birth to giant iceberg
The Petermann glacier is one of the largest glaciers connecting the Greenland inland ice sheet with the Arctic Ocean. Upon reaching the sea, a number of these…
Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan
“In the early morning hours of August 5, 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland,” said Andreas Muenchow, associate…
First satellite measurement of water volume in Amazon floodplain
The result — 285 billion metric tons, or 285 cubic kilometers of water by volume — sounds like a lot. That amount is over half the volume of Lake Erie, which…