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Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
NASA looks at Tropical Storm Jebi in South China Sea
Tropical Storm Jebi developed on July 31 and NASA satellite data on Aug. 1 shows the storm filling up at least half of the South China Sea.
NASA

Contact: Rob Gutro
Robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
301-286-4044
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
NASA sees Hurricane Gil being chased by developing storm
On July 31, NASA's TRMM satellite saw Tropical Storm Gil intensifying and the storm became a hurricane. NASA's Aqua satellite and NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured views of Gil on Aug. 1 as it was being chased by another developing tropical system.
NASA

Contact: Rob Gutro
Robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
301-286-4044
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
NASA seeing which way the wind blows
The autonomous and compact High-altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler, or HIWRAP, a dual-frequency conical-scanning Doppler radar, will hang under NASA's aircraft's belly as it flies above hurricanes to measure wind and rain and to test a new method for retrieving wind data.
NASA

Contact: Ellen Gray
Ellen.t.gray@nasa.gov
301-286-1950
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Nature Climate Change
UCI-led team develops more accurate model of climate change's effect on soil
Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming's effect on soil worldwide that accounts for how bacteria and fungi in soil control carbon.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Contact: Andrea Burgess
andrea.burgess@uci.edu
949-824-6282
University of California - Irvine

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Science
Cool heads likely won't prevail in a hotter, wetter world
Researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley report that even slight spikes in temperature and precipitation greatly increase the risk of personal and civil violence, and suggest that more human conflict is a likely outcome of climate change.
Princeton University Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program, University of California Berkeley Oxfam Faculty Chair in Environmental and Resource Economics

Contact: Morgan Kelly
mgnkelly@princeton.edu
609-258-5729
Princeton University

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Geoscientists unearth mineral-making secrets potentially useful for new technologies
Proteins have gotten most of the attention in studies of how organic materials control the initial step of making the first tiny crystals that organisms use to build structures that help them move and protect themselves. Virginia Tech researchers have discovered that certain types of sugars, known as polysaccharides, may also control the timing and placement of minerals that animals use to produce hard structures.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Contact: John Pastor
jdpastor@vt.edu
540-231-5646
Virginia Tech

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Extreme wildfires likely fueled by climate change
Climate change is likely fueling the larger and more destructive wildfires that are scorching vast areas of the American West, according to new research led by Michigan State University scientists.

Contact: Andy Henion
henion@msu.edu
517-355-3294
Michigan State University

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Science
Climate change occurring 10 times faster than at any time in past 65 million years
Not only is the planet undergoing one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, Stanford climate scientists report that it's occurring at a rate 10 times faster than any change in that period. Without intervention, this extreme pace could lead to a 5-6 degree Celsius spike in annual temperatures by the end of the century.

Contact: Noah Diffenbaugh
diffenbaugh@stanford.edu
650-223-9425
Stanford University

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Science
As climate, disease links become clearer, study highlights need to forecast future shifts
Climate change is affecting the spread of infectious diseases worldwide, according to an international team of leading disease ecologists, with serious impacts to human health and biodiversity conservation. Writing in the journal Science, they propose that modeling the way disease systems respond to climate variables could help public health officials and environmental managers predict and mitigate the spread of lethal diseases.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Sonia Altizer
saltizer@uga.edu
706-542-9251
University of Georgia

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Science
Future warming: Issues of magnitude and pace
Researchers reviewed the likelihood of continued changes to the terrestrial climate, including an analysis of a collection of 27 climate models. If emissions of heat-trapping gases continue along the recent trajectory, 21st century mean annual global warming could exceed 3.6 °F ( 2 °C) over most terrestrial regions during 2046 to 2065 and 7.2 °F (4 °C) during 2081-2100.At this pace, it will probably be the most rapid large climate change in the last 65 million years.

Contact: Chris Field
cfield@carnegiescience.edu
650-319-8024
Carnegie Institution

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Science
Climate strongly affects human conflict and violence worldwide, says study
Shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence around the world, with even relatively minor departures from normal temperature or rainfall substantially increasing the risk of conflict in ancient times or today, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University.

Contact: Kathleen Maclay
kmaclay@berkeley.edu
510-643-5651
University of California - Berkeley

Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Science
Arctic sea-ice loss has widespread effects on wildlife
How the Arctic wildlife and humans will be affected by the continued melting of Arctic sea ice is explored in a review article in the journal Science, by an international team of scientists. The article examines relationships among algae, plankton, whales, and terrestrial animals such as caribou, arctic foxes, and walrus; as well as the effects of human exploration of previously inaccessible parts of the region.
National Science Foundation, Penn State University

Contact: Barbara K. Kennedy
science@psu.edu
814-863-4682
Penn State

Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
Satellite sees Flossie fizzle fast
Tropical Depression Flossie fizzled fast on July 30 in the Central Pacific Ocean. Satellite imagery on July 31 showed remnant clouds northwest of the Hawaiian Island chain.
NASA

Contact: Rob Gutro
Robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
301-286-4044
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
NASA finds powerful storms in quickly intensifying Tropical Storm Gil
No sooner had Tropical Storm Flossie dissipated then another tropical cyclone called Tropical Depression 7E formed yesterday, July 30, in the eastern Pacific Ocean. NASA's TRMM satellite saw "hot towers" in the storm's center early on July 31, that indicated it would likely strengthen, and it became Tropical Storm Gil hours later.
NASA

Contact: Rob Gutro
Robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
301-286-4044
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
Geology
Ancient whale coprolites, fault slickensides, shergottites, Ediacara, and Cascadia
Two new Geology articles this month are open access: "Steady rotation of the Cascade arc" and "Silica gel formation during fault slip: Evidence from the rock record." Other new articles cover everything from the discovery of fossilized whale "intestinal products" in central Italy to flooding as a result of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption to new findings via the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars to using microfossils to reconstruct massive earthquakes in Cascadia.

Contact: Kea Giles
kgiles@geosociety.org
Geological Society of America

Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
Navy turns to UAVs for help with radar, communications
Scientists recently launched unmanned aerial vehicles from a research vessel in a significant experiment that could help boost the Navy's radar and communications performance at sea.

Contact: Peter Vietti
onrpublicaffairs@navy.mil
703-696-5031
Office of Naval Research

Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
Environmental Science & Technology
Sediment trapped behind dams makes them 'hot spots' for greenhouse gas emissions
With the "green" reputation of large hydroelectric dams already in question, scientists are reporting that millions of smaller dams on rivers around the world make an important contribution to the greenhouse gases linked to global climate change. Their study, showing that more methane than previously believed bubbles out of the water behind small dams, appears in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology.

Contact: Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
202-872-6042
American Chemical Society

Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
The Sociological Quarterly
Southerners are less trusting, but trust is a factor in environmental cooperation, study shows
Southerners are generally not as trusting as people who live in other parts of the country, but trusting people are more likely to cooperate in recycling, buying green products and conserving water, a new Baylor University study shows.

Contact: Terry Goodrich
terry_goodrich@baylor.edu
254-710-3321
Baylor University

Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
Earth System Dynamics
Could planting trees in the desert mitigate climate change?
As the world starts feeling the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and consequent global temperature rise, researchers are looking for a Plan B to mitigate climate change. A group of German scientists has now come up with an environmentally friendly method that they say could do just that. The technique, dubbed carbon farming, consists in planting trees in arid regions on a large scale to capture CO2. They publish their study today in Earth System Dynamics, a journal of the European Geosciences Union.

Contact: Bárbara Ferreira
media@egu.eu
49-892-180-6703
European Geosciences Union

Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
Nature
'Highway from hell' fueled Costa Rican volcano
In a new study in the journal Nature, scientists suggest that the 1960s eruption of Costa Rica's largest stratovolcano was triggered by magma rising from the mantle over a few short months, rather than thousands of years or more, as many scientists have thought.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Kim Martineau
kmartine@ldeo.columbia.edu
646-717-0134
The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
Santa's workshop not flooded -- but lots of melting in the Arctic
Widespread media reports of a lake at the North Pole don't hold water -- but scientists who deployed the monitoring buoys are watching closely as Arctic sea ice approaches its yearly minimum.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Hannah Hickey
hickeyh@uw.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington

Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology
Sequestration and fuel reserves
A technique for trapping the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide deep underground could at the same be used to release the last fraction of natural gas liquids from ailing reservoirs, thus offsetting some of the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels. So says a paper to be published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology.

Contact: Albert Ang
press@inderscience.com
Inderscience Publishers

Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
Myanmar at the crossroads: Conservationists see opportunities and challenges in biodiversity hotspot
Long isolated by economic and political sanctions, Myanmar returns to the international community amid high expectations and challenges associated with protecting the country's great natural wealth from the impacts of economic growth and climate change.

Contact: John Delaney
jdelaney@wcs.org
718-220-3275
Wildlife Conservation Society

Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
Journal of Geophysical Research
Radio waves carry news of climate change
Prof. Colin Price of Tel Aviv University has discovered that radio waves reflecting back to earth from the ionosphere can offer valuable news about the extent of climate change. His simple, cost-effective measurement can be a valuable contribution to the ongoing effort to track climate change, adding to current measurements for a more holistic picture.

Contact: George Hunka
ghunka@aftau.org
212-742-9070
American Friends of Tel Aviv University

Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
Geophysical Research Letters
AGU journal highlights -- July 30, 2013
Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Atmospheric rivers linked to severe precipitation in Western Europe," "Warming climate increases rainfall extremes," "Carbon fertilization increased arid region leaf cover over past 20 years," "Understanding the complexities of volcanoes that erupt just once," "Revealing the early seafloor spreading history between India and Australia," and "Independent observations corroborate surface air temperature record."

Contact: Mary Catherine Adams
mcadams@agu.org
202-777-7530
American Geophysical Union