Ocean
Perspectives
Every Day Can Be World Oceans Day
by Anupa Asokan, AMS Education Program Most of us recognize that the ocean is a driving force behind our weather...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
“Current” Affairs at the 2014 AMS Washington Forum
by Ellen Klicka, AMS Policy Program Very exciting developments are about to unfold at the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy...
Perspectives
Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences
Dr. David Titley, Rear Adm. (Ret.)–well known to us as former oceanographer of the U.S. Navy, as chief operating officer...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
A Chat with the Iceman
By Maureen Moses, AMS Education Program I hope you all had a good Earth Science Week last week! The theme...
Eurasian Cold Snap a Product of Arctic Warmth
In a paradox that it seems only nature can muster—like quelling a year-long drought in the western two-thirds of Texas...
New Study Now Quantifies the "Huge" Seafloor Movement in 2011 Japanese Earthquake
At a magnitude of 9.0, the earthquake off the Japanese coast last March was already known as one of the...
The Services Response to the Tōhoku Disaster a Focus of the 2012 AMS Meeting
The science ministry in Japan reported last week that more than 30,000 square km–eight percent of the country–is contaminated by radioactive...
Mapping Ice Flow in Antarctica
A recently released map of the speed and direction of ice flows across Antarctica not only reveals some previously undiscovered...
New Tools for Predicting Tsunamis
The SWASH (Simulating Waves until at Shore) model sounds like something that would have been useful in predicting the tsunami...
Lessons of Sendai: The Need for Community Resilience
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director, adapted from two posts (here and there) for the AMS Project, Living on...
