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The JOIDES Resolution Embarks on Its Final Expedition

by Grace van Deelen 6 June 20246 June 2024

On the ship’s last cruise, scientists will collect data to help predict future effects of climate change.

2017 NASA astronaut candidates and their field instructors hike as a team. at Meteor Crater in Arizona.
Posted inFeatures

The Art of Doing Fieldwork on the Moon

Mark Betancourt, Freelance Journalist by Mark Betancourt 23 May 202412 August 2024

How ­early-career planetary scientists are preparing to support the astronauts who will return to the lunar surface and beyond.

An ice floe floats in the Amundsen Sea close to the shore of West Antarctica.
Posted inFeatures

Confined at Sea at the End of the World

by Sofia Moutinho 23 May 202423 May 2024

Embedded on a research cruise in the Antarctic, a journalist joins a scientists’ “summer camp.”

Scientists are lowered from the deck of R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer to the sea ice of the Southern Ocean as part of a GEOTRACES research cruise.
Posted inAGU News

Charting New Territory

by Caryl-Sue Micalizio 23 May 20249 July 2024

From the abyss of the Antarctic to proxy lunar landscapes in Arizona, fieldwork gives Earth and space scientists insight and experience.

On 30 December 2021, a grass fire sparked outside Boulder, Colo.
Posted inFeatures

When Fieldwork Comes Home

by Grace van Deelen 25 April 202425 April 2024

The impacts of the 2021 Marshall Fire rippled through a community of Colorado geoscientists, spurring them to action.

Two people stand in an area covered in rock mounds, with puddled water in the foreground and a low rocky hill in the background. The image is annotated with a date, location, and blue and green lines identifying, respectively, several of the mounds and three elevations on the hill.
Posted inOpinions

Snapping Science in the Field

by Sabrina Kainz and Andrea Halling 11 March 202423 May 2024

Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app, offers a range of features that make it an unexpectedly useful tool for geoscientists on the go.

A view of the lower body of an astronaut carrying tongs and walking on the surface of the Moon
Posted inFeatures

Here’s How Artemis Astronauts Will Navigate on the Moon

by Saima May Sidik 30 November 202321 March 2024

The next wave of lunar explorers is headed to terrain that promises to be both stunning and challenging. Here’s how they’ll cope with some of the difficulties they’ll encounter.

A group of people stand in a farm field listening to a field trip guide speak.
Posted inScience Updates

Finding Common Ground in the Field to Inform Science Policy

by Sunday Siomades, Blair Schneider and Andy Connolly 28 November 202327 February 2024

The Kansas Geological Survey’s annual Field Conference takes scientists, producers, legislators, and public officials around the state to spark conversation about natural resources.

Photo of 2 scientists sampling a rock outcrop.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Should I Stay or Should I Go…To Another Paleomagnetic Site?

by Daniel Pastor-Galán 3 November 20232 November 2023

When collecting a finite number of paleomagnetic samples, having more sites, each with only one sample, achieves superior results compared to sites with multiple samples.

A creek with tufts of grass growing in it winds through a rocky landscape
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Water Corridors Helped Homo sapiens Disperse out of Africa

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 2 November 20232 November 2023

Wetland conditions during the last interglacial period in parts of the Levant helped propel our ancestors into Arabia, new research suggests.

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