Earth Sciences

Senate to hear reports from Dean Pamela Matson and from ASSU leaders

9 Feb 2012

Pamela Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences, will present a report to the Faculty Senate today. Four student representatives to the Faculty Senate also will give presentations, including Michael Cruz, ASSU president, and Kamil Dada, ASSU Graduate Student Council representative.

Global sea level rise: NASA mission takes stock of Earth's melting land ice

9 Feb 2012

In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, researchers have used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise. Using satellite measurements from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the researchers measured ice loss in all of Earth's land ice between 2003 and 2010, with particular emphasis on ...

Earth losing roughly 150 billion tons of ice to oceans annually

9 Feb 2012

London, Feb 9 (ANI): Greenland, Antarctica and global glaciers and ice caps lost roughly 8 times the volume of Lake Erie from 2003-2010, a new study has revealed.