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A Colorado cave might hold a key to extraterrestrial life forms

Chilean Earthquake Triggers Smaller Than Expected Tsunami

Anne Sheehan - New Zealand ocean bottom seismometer experiment

Stern Receives Honorary Degree From Universidad de Magallanes

Evidence For Ancient Lake On Mars

53-Million-Year-Old Arctic Mammals Wintered in Darkness

Ancient Architecture Makes Italian Earthquakes Deadly

Giff Miller named AGU Fellow

US scientists head for the depths
A group of US scientists have begun the most comprehensive and expensive study of New Zealand's deep sea fault line ever attempted, equipped with a small army of state-of-the-art submersible seismographs.

Professor Anne Sheehan: Teacher At Sea
What's shaking under the sea? Teacher-at-Sea Dan Tomlin and Geophysicist Anne Sheehan are traveling to the Southern Ocean near New Zealand to install thirty earthquake-monitoring instruments on the ocean floor. Learn about the science and follow the journey at sea here!     Read the Daily Camera Article

Professor Brian Hynek recognized with AIAA award
Professor Brian Hynek of LASP has received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Abe M. Zarem Educator Award for his work in student advising.

NASA Selects CU-Boulder To Lead $485 Million Mars Mission
Planetary scientist Bruce Jakosky is the principal investigator of a $485 million NASA orbiting space mission that is being led by the University of Colorado at Boulder to probe the Mars atmosphere for clues to past climates.

Marchitto/Lehman paper wins Provost's award
Congratulations to Tom Marchitto who has been selected to receive a Provost's Faculty Achievement Award.

Emily Knowles awarded NASA Fellowship
Graduate student Emily Knowles was recently awarded a three year PhD Fellowship from the NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellowship Program for her proposal entitled "Interpreting physical and chemical biosignatures in basalt".

Greenland Ice Core Analysis Shows Drastic Climate Change Near End Of Last Ice Age

Ice flow alone explains why fjords are cut so deep
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Global Earthquake Fatalities Expected To Rise

Deadly China Earthquake

Chile's Erupting Chaiten Volcano One Of Scores Of Active Volcanoes In Region, Says CU-Boulder Prof. Charles Stern
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New dates for Grand Canyon

Dust In West Up 500 Percent In 200 Years

Baffin Island Ice Caps Shrink By 50 Percent Since 1950s

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