MADISON — Stand on the ocean’s shore and take a big whiff of the salt spray and you’ll smell the unmistakably pungent scent of the sea. That ripe, almost rotting smell? That’s sulfur. Marine plankton…
Geologists take Earth’s inner temperature using erupted sea glass
BY Jennifer Chu CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- If the Earth’s oceans were drained completely, they would reveal a massive chain of undersea volcanoes snaking around the planet. This sprawling ocean ridge system is a product of overturning…
Scientist looks monitored satellite images to predict underwater volcano eruptions
Sea discoloration data obtained from satellite images as a novel criterion in predicting if eruption looms for an underwater volcano, according to new new study. There have been frequent eruptions of submarine volcanoes in recent…
Research shows underwater seismometer can hear how fast a glacier moves
A team of scientists from Hokkaido University, led by Assistant Professor Evgeny A. Podolskiy from the Arctic Research Center, have used ocean-bottom and surface seismometers to detect previously unknown persistent coastal shaking generated by a…
Researchers Develop New Landslide Mapping System
Researchers have developed a new mapping method that helps identify landslide disaster risks and predict their damage with high accuracy. Associate Professor Shuji Moriguchi from Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), who…