A Sampling of Clips for
August 16, 2002
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Study:
Nitrogen recycles well
Associated Press, Aug. 15 – Nitrogen, the most
common gas in the atmosphere, is efficiently recycled to the air
from the sea floor sediments, a study of Central American volcanoes
found. The findings by researchers from Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, the University of New Mexico and Northern
Illinois University are reported in Friday’s issue of the
journal Science. According to Scripps researcher David
R. Hilton, nitrogen comes straight back out to the Earth’s
surface through active volcanoes.
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AP article
also appeared in:
Newsday, Aug. 15
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-recycling-nitrogen0815aug15.
Cnews,
Aug. 15
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0207/0815_nitrogen-ap.html
Measuring glaciers now hi-tech
Cox News Service, Aug. 15 – Scripps Institution
of Oceanography scientists used data from a radar-equipped
European satellite to determine the height and movement of ice
shelves in Antarctica.
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La
Jolla Playhouse’s new production
San Diego Union Tribune, Aug. 16 – The La Jolla
Playhouse will unveil plans today for an $11.5 million theater
complex on the UCSD campus. The 45,000 square-foot Joan
and Irwin Jacobs Center for La Jolla Playhouse, named for the
Qualcomm founder and his wife, will incorporate four major components:
a theater, a play-development center, an education complex and
a restaurant/cabaret.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/news/news_1n16lajolla.html
Aging research
fleet needs replenishing
San Diego Daily Transcript, Aug. 15 – Robert
Monroe, a senior writer for Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s
Explorations magazine, wrote this opinion piece on the need to
find successors to R/V Melville and other ships in the American
academic research fleet. Bob Knox, the Scripps associate
director of ship operations and marine technical support, is taking
his case to the U.S. Commission of Ocean Policy, the Navy, and
the National Science Foundation.
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