Date Posted: 2009-11-13
The School of Earth and Space Exploration hosted a symposium “Living with the Planet” Nov. 13 that featured the premiere screening of the documentary film “Mud Max: Investigative Documentary - Sidoardjo Mud Volcano Disaster.” ...
Date Posted: 2009-10-29
ASU researcher leads overall effort (total of four papers in Science), and reports on the fact that oxygen production began in the Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere.
Scientists widely accept that a...
Date Posted: 2009-10-24
Two ASU faculty members have earned Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The CAREER program is NSF’s most prestigious, and supports the early career development activities of teacher-scho...
Date Posted: 2009-10-15
Preservice science teachers are challenged with mastering both pedagogy and science content. To do so, they need instructors with expertise in both areas, which sometimes means two educators in one classroom. In the Oct. 2009 issue of NSTA Reports, t...
Date Posted: 2009-10-12
Future space missions have targeted Mars and Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, as destinations to send new robotic explorers. According to an article published on SPACE.com on Oct. 12, these two may hold the best hopes for scientists trying to track do...
Date Posted: 2009-10-07
LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, will search for water ice on the Moon by crashing into a crater located near the lunar South Pole. Writer Leonard David published an article titled “Targeting the Moon: Observato...
Date Posted: 2009-09-25
"How do you peer into the heart of a continent to see what makes it tick?" That's the question that Richard Kerr asks in the 25 Sept. issue of Science. The answer is the National Science Foundation’s EarthScope project, a project that...
Date Posted: 2009-09-25
Designed to introduce future scientists and engineers to the innovations of today, the travelling ROBOTS: The Interactive Exhibition offers a variety of adventures to explore the science of robotics. Hosted by the Arizona Science Center from Sept. 27...
Date Posted: 2009-09-23
Humans have long pondered the possibility that life exists beyond Earth, but so far the quest for habitable worlds has focused on searching for water since life here requires it. In Wired Science’s Sept. 22 article “The Hunt For Extraterr...
Date Posted: 2009-09-22
Determining what lies beneath Earth’s surface requires sophisticated technology. Ed Garnero, a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and seismology graduate student Chunpeng Zhao use seismic wave data from the USArray Transpor...
