A team of scientists, engineers, and ship's crew on the research vessel Neil Armstrong operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently collected a 38-foot-long cylindrical ...

A piece of the frozen marine sediment core sample. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the ...

Hadley Blodgett ’26 of Buckfield, Maine, spends a lot of time thinking about just that — time. In a laboratory in Carnegie Science Hall, as she conducts research for her senior thesis, Blodgett gazes ...

If all goes to plan, the long metal rod of the core sampler will cut down through the soil of the salt marsh like a knife through warm butter. Mike Priddy and David Bruce take their places in the ...

Lacustrine turbidites offer a reliable record of seismic activity. A typical sedimentary sequence is produced when a turbidity current moves downslope. If the current generates enough energy, this ...

Elizabeth Thomas, UB assistant professor of geology, holds a sediment core -- a cylindrical sample of lakebed mud. Such samples contain organic matter that can be analyzed to learn about a region's ...