A Northwestern University-led team of interdisciplinary researchers has received $5.1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to test the efficacy of enhanced weathering,
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This May, Northwestern’s Earth and Planetary Sciences department is hosting a workshop titled “Volcano & Rift Seismicity in the Northern Branches of The East African Rift System.” The workshop, designed explicitly for early-career seismologists from different countries along the East-African …
Discrepancy between maps and shaking data is in conversion between them
Hazard maps predicting future earthquake shaking are important in the design of earthquake-resistant buildings. Seismologists have been making these maps for about 50 years, but little is known how …
Two Weinberg College faculty members from Northwestern University have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
Bruce Carruthers and Suzan van der Lee are among the …
Northwestern mineralogist leads lunar soil analysis for NASA’s MMPACT project
Most people are familiar with the iconic photograph of astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s boot print on the surface of the moon. But what, exactly, is in the soil that holds the …
Former goldmine provides a portal to microbial life deep into the Earth’s crust
If you added up all the microbes living deep below Earth’s surface, the amount of biomass would outweigh all life within our oceans.
But because this abundant …
Seismologist: ‘The activity is formidable, exciting and scary’
As seismic activity intensifies ahead of an impending eruption of a fissure near Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano, the island’s Reykjanes Peninsula is experiencing hundreds of earthquakes per day.
Now, listeners can follow along …
The new findings are ubiquitous, even among Earth’s northernmost glaciers
Greenland’s thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat, a Northwestern University and University of Copenhagen study has found.
To piece together the magnitude …
First study to estimate mortality related to nitrogen dioxide exposure across U.S.
In the United States, premature death associated with exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution — a toxic gas emitted primarily by burning fossil fuels in cars, …
Warming led to an intensified methane cycle, lasting thousands of years, study finds
By studying fossils from ancient aquatic plants, Northwestern University and University of Wyoming (UW) researchers are gaining a better understanding of how methane produced in Arctic lakes …