In an article appearing in today’s issue of EOS, Zackary Johnson and Dave Johnston discuss how smartphones are changing the way geoscience is taught. Smartphones and other personal electronic devices are now allowing students and the public to measure ocean color, record species encountered, visualize environmental acoustics, document the distance […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
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ZIJ visited the Elkem Salten silicon plant in Norway to explore the use of microalgae to capture carbon dioxide. The Elkem plant uses coal and coke along with electrical power to produce various forms of silicon and silica of use in many commercial applications. In the process, the plant releases […]
Summer 2013 REU student David Hurley presented his research at the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) 2013 meeting in San Diego. His 10-week research project focused on quantifying how increasing temperatures will affect the carbon uptake and allocation of phytoplankton and he used Prochlorococcus as a model organism. An […]