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A&S Geochemist Predicts Hurricanes Like Florence Will Become More Frequent
Monday, September 10, 2018, By Daryl Lovell
As of 11 a.m. ET on September 10, the National Weather Service has upgraded Florence to a Category 3 storm and forecast the weather event will make landfall late Thursday night or early Friday morning. In the meantime, those on…
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A&S Professor Looks to Geologic Past to Predict Climate’s Future
Wednesday, September 5, 2018, By Rob Enslin
A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is part of a team of scientists studying monsoon activity in North America’s Sonoran Desert from approximately 20,000 years ago. Tripti Bhattacharya, assistant professor of Earth sciences in A&S, is…
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Scientists Rethink Co-Evolution of Marine Life, Oxygenated Oceans
Thursday, May 31, 2018, By Rob Enslin
Researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences have confirmed that rising oceanic and atmospheric oxygen levels co-evolved with marine life hundreds of millions of years ago. Wanyi Lu, a Ph.D. candidate studying under Associate Professor Zunli Lu (no relation) in…