Geoscientists are exploring how to best apply muons in geophysical research. In the most recent issue of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS) publication FastTimes featured research using muons in geoscience to image the subsurface, and subsurface structures and possibly as a tool to assess density and elasticity in seismic surveys.
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology is a diverse organization of scientists, students, artists, preparators, advocates, writers and scholars across the globe, who are dedicated to the study, discovery, interpretation and preservation of vertebrate fossils.
It's Groundwater Awareness Week 2017 (#GWAwarenessWeek if you're on twitter)! Today's Critical Issues Map of the Day from the USGS and shows the cumulative depletion of groundwater for 40 aquifer systems across the U.S (excluding Alaska). The map depicts depletion over the time period of 1900 to 2008 and is measured in cubic kilometers.