An ecologist built an army of beach surveyors over 20 years and now has the world’s largest data set of marine bird mortality informing climate change and disaster studies.
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King of the Tyrannosaurs Goes on Display
The biggest, oldest T. rex found to date shows how big tyrannosaurs could get.
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Can You Explain Science Using Only 1,000 Common Words?
The Up-Goer Five Challenge forces researchers to peel back the jargon and reveal the simple nuggets of their work.
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Coral Reef Video Game Will Help Create Global Database
Players dive off a research boat, identify and classify coral reefs using satellite and drone images, and bring marine life back to reefs. In doing so, they help scientists teach a machine to learn.
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Ten Steps to a Successful Career Launch
How to use your first months on the job strategically to explore your new role and make the connections that will carry you onward and upward.
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Ten Everyday Objects That Can Be Used for Science
Need a way to store sediment cores or grind up soil? These scientists have your answer.
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Virtual Poster Showcase Experienced Steady Growth in 2017
A pilot project for high schools and a geographic information system map, as well as other embellishments, have enhanced a program that enables students to present research electronically.
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New Online Tool Teaches Students About the Energy-Water Nexus
Students use real data sets to explore how population changes, power generation, and water-saving strategies affect surface and groundwater use.
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Three Reasons Why Earth Scientists Should Edit Wikipedia
Are you looking to communicate science more broadly? Start by editing articles on the Internet's most popular general reference work.
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AGU Should Sever Its Ties with ExxonMobil
AGU and its funders should be held to the same standards of evidence-based scrutiny that it expects of the scientists who publish in its own journals.