Studying glaciers . . . from Florida Mickey MacKie, assistant professor of geological sciences and a glaciologist. Photo provided. Welcome to From Florida, a podcast where you’ll learn how minds are connecting, great ideas are colliding and groundbreaking innovations become a reality because of the University of Florida. Mickey MacKie, an assistant professor of geological […]
Billions of years ago, a Martian river flowed with such force that it tumbled boulders in its path, strewing them out into its massive delta. University of Florida astrobiologist Amy Williams looked up from the bed of that ancient river to its rocky remnants, courtesy of the Mars Perseverance rover, which sends on-the-ground views of […]
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Earth’s critical zone, the outer skin of the earth between treetops and the base of groundwater has been described as where life meets rocks. Its impacts on human well-being have made it the focus of intense research through numerous place-based “Critical Zone Observatories” and more recently theme-based “Critical Zone Networks”. However, these research efforts have […]
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University of Florida professor Juliane Dannberg, PhD, has received the Jason Morgan Early Career Award for 2021 from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for her compelling research and advancement of her field. The award recognized Dannberg’s contributions to tectonophysics, a branch of geophysics that focuses on deformations of the Earth’s structure such as mantle convection […]
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Going way back By: Alyssa Findlay Nature Climate Change The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the Earth, changing the landscape. In particular, rising temperatures accelerate permafrost thaw, with implications for the vast stores of carbon currently frozen in these soils. The fate of carbon released from thawing permafrost is not […]