A Sampling of Clips for
June 4, 2002
UCSD
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Dusted
for life’s fingerprints, rocks fail
New
York Times, June
4, Pg. 4 – A conclusion in a 1996 study co-authored by a Scripps
Institution of Oceanography scientist that a
3.85-billion-year-old rock contains evidence of life may be in
error, according to a study that suggests the rock formed at
temperatures too torrid to make life possible.
(Quotes Scripps
Institution of Oceanography marine research division
professor and co-author of the 1996 study Gustaf
Arrhenius).
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Global
warming causes oceans to lose oxygen
Agence
France Presse, June
3 – Global warming is causing oceans to lose oxygen, a process
that is expected to continue over the next several decades,
according to a study by Scripps
Institution of Oceanography professor Ralph
Keeling and Hernan Garcia due to be published in the Proceeding
of the National Academy of Sciences Tuesday.
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UCSD
offers summer high school program
San
Diego Metropolitan Magazine, May
Issue – UCSD’s
Academic Connections, a program that provides a preview of
university life for students in ninth through 12th
grades, will host high school students from around the nation this
July. (Quotes UCSD’s
Academic Connections director Luciano
Corazza).
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