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Agnew presents Earth time change in "Nature"

Rapid ice melt in Greenland & Antarctica is flattening Earth's shape—as mass moves from the poles to the Equator—enough to slow its rotation. Duncan Agnew explains the ramifications in the 27 March 2024 issue of Nature: "A global timekeeping problem postponed by global warming." See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07170-0

Kilb, colleagues discuss the use of turbidites in EOS

Deborah Kilb and her colleagues present turbidites value to paleo seismology despite the difficulties in characterizing & determining their source, in EOS article "Submarine Avalanche Deposits Hold Clues to Past Earthquakes.” See: https://eos.org/science-updates/submarine-avalanche-deposits-hold-clues-to-past-earthquakes

Gjini invited by SIAM News to share her work on Stratocumulus Clouds

 Congratulations to 3rd year Ph.D. student, Rebecca Gjini, who was invited to share her work in SIAM News. Gjini's article "Stratocumulus Clouds and Predator-prey Dynamics" focuses on her research modeling stratocumulus clouds with predator-prey dynamics and rain "eating" clouds and is avaialble online here.

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