Scientists wield Wiimote to measure evaporation
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Ethan Gutmann
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Ethan received his B.A. in Geology and Computer Science from Williams College in 1999, his Masters in Geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2002, and his PhD in and from the same in 2008. His current research involves combining satellite measurements with weather and climate models to analyze surface hydrology. When he is not doing research or pounding out an article for Nobel Intent, he can be found behind the lens of a camera or hanging off the side of a cliff. Ethan is an avid rock and ice climber and has been on mountaineering expeditions to Peru and Nepal. He also likes taking long trips on his road bike, and would love to ride a randonee some time.
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Sea level-ice sheet dynamics may help stabilize Antarctica’s ice
What happens if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses? It turns out that …
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Monitoring earthquakes from space
Scientists in Italy use the latest images from the European Space Agency to …
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Land use may have been responsible for the 1930s dust bowl
The great plains of North America experienced an extreme drought in the 1930s …
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Primate poop shows that infants cause stress
Researchers measure the stress levels of the primate Sifaka using the steroid …
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Fish lose their way with nostrils on acid
Scientists examine the effect of increasing ocean acidity on the ability of …
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Modeling the retreat of Greenland’s shrinking glaciers
Rising sea level is one of the larger challenges that climate change is …
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The global consequences of fish poop
We usually think of the ocean's inorganic carbon cycle being dominated by tiny …
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Exploiting the noise in GPS data
When one is using GPS to measure changes in location on the scale of …
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Little leaf water droplets with weighty consequences
Oddly enough, rain that collects on leaves in tree canopies can play a …
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Of Sumatran quakes and corals
Predicting when earthquakes will occur is part science, part guess work, and a …
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Using lasers to find meteor craters
It is a geologic mystery: there appear to be very few small impact events in …
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Is turbulence a chaotic repellor or attractor?
Understanding turbulence is an incredibly hard problem, but a recent study …
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Soot in soils may decrease carbon dioxide feedback
We may not know all we think we know about carbon in soils and its impact on …
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Typhoons in Taiwan drive carbon storage
Geologic processes are sometimes dominated by slow and steady events, …
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Grizzly population study turns up video of dancing bears
The USGS Corecast releases some fun footage of grizzly bears, as well as some …
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Oldest known ice in North America offers a message of hope
A team of Canadian researchers uncovers a strange brew of ice, volcanic ash, …
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Microbial feast and famine leads to CO2 temperature feedback
What really happens to carbon in an ecosystem over a long time period? A new …
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Which came first, the carbon dioxide or the heat?
One of the arguments often trotted out to suggest that climate scientists don' …
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California classifies LED building block as human carcinogen
California recently listed gallium arsenide, a common material in LEDs, as a …
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Climate and evolution in times past
Climate change and evolution often go hand in hand. A recent study in Science …
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Meat substitutes taste as good as the real thing
Ask most meat eaters why they prefer meat, and they will tell you it tastes …
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Burying CO2 in the ocean floor to keep it out of atmosphere
Finding a place to put all of the carbon we humans are pumping into the …
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Ice shelf collapse: beyond the prelude
Further disintegration of the Wilkens ice shelf. The largest break up yet is …
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Analysis: recent panics over rare metal scarcity overblown
The modern electronics industry is built in part on steady supplies of some …
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Could diamonds reveal evidence for life… four billion years ago?
A paper in today's issue of Nature presents evidence that hints at life 4.25 …
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Iron isotopes in lava lakes
Hot and heavy atoms do not fractionate isotopically… so why does iron?
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Prelude to an ice shelf collapse: Part the second
Satellites document the first winter ice shelf break up in Antarctica.
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Fast -forming mountain ranges
We usually assume that mountain ranges take tens of millions of years to form …
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Are Earth’s magnetic reversals becoming more frequent?
New findings reported in Nature Geoscience suggest that the Earth's magnetic …
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Shorebirds use surface tension for easier eating
Some classes of shorebirds open and close their beaks rapidly to use capillary …
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New breed of supercomputer could challenge Intel, AMD, IBM
A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests that a new breed of …
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The superhydrophobic properties of rose petals
Natural materials have often been the source of inspiration for new synthetic …
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Maintaining Moore’s law with new memristor circuits
A group at HP Labs discovers a type of circuit predicted to exist in 1971, and …
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The physics of jamming
Why does sand flow in an hour glass? Why does traffic jam on a highway? A …
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Post-glacial extinction
At the end of the last ice age many large animals went extinct, but was this …
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