Japan Earthquake 2011 Liquefaction Damage
See news release on this topic at, oregonstate.edu ... Oregon State Univ ... "Oregon State University" "Scott Ashford" ...
Heiko's World of Permaculture Plants: Soil Building Methodologies
Heiko Koester is an articulate and very experienced Permaculture designer, gardener, and teacher in Eugene, OR. In this video he speaks about soil ...
Portland harbor Superfund cleanup alternatives have 'many deficiencies that ...
The feasibility study appears to rely on natural recovery "for the majority of the cleanup," EPA said.
"We're really looking for a document that takes a more balanced approach in looking at all the alternatives," said Deb Yamamoto, EPA unit manager for the harbor cleanup.
The heavily industrialized harbor, Oregon's biggest cleanup project, was declared a federal Superfund site in 2000.
Riverside property owners are on the hook to pay for cleanup costs. The Lower Willamette Group's study estimated they could run from under $200 million to more than $1.7 billion, depending on the cleanup methods selected.
Barbara Smith, spokeswoman for the Lower Willamette Group, noted that EPA said the study presents a reasonable range of actions.
The group has spent roughly $100 million sampling sediment and preparing exhaustive Superfund documents, Smith said, and will work with EPA to finish the study.
"We stand behind the feasibility study that we submitted," she said. "It's good science; it's going to be a good outcome. But there's a lot of discussion that still needs to take place.
"Super Earths" --Could They Seed Microbial Life in their Solar ...
&Quot;One of the big scientific questions is how did life get started and how did it spread through the universe," said Jay Melosh, distinguished professor of earth and atmospheric sciences.
"That question used to be limited to just the Earth, but we now know in our solar system there is a lot of exchange that takes place, and it's quite possible life started on Mars and came to Earth. There's also been a great deal of discussion about the possible spread of life in the universe from star to star."
Moon rocks and Mars meteorites have been found on Earth, which led Melosh to previously suggest living microbes could be exchanged among planets in a similar manner.A Purdue research team has found that, in contrast to our own solar system, the exchange of living microbes between "super-Earth" and planets in that solar system is not likely to occur. They examined the Gliese 581 planetary system because Planet d, known as super-Earth, falls in a "habitable zone" where liquid water could possibly exist....
Science Pub with Staci Simonich - OSU Blogs - Oregon State ...
Despite their protected status, national parks are not immune from the effects of modern life. Pollution in the form of pesticides, PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants) and PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons released by forest fires and fossil fuel combustion) show up in parks across the country. In the West, Staci Simonich, professor in the Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences, has been tracking sources of such contamination in high-elevation parks such as Sequoia in the Sierras, Washington’s Olympic and Denali in Alaska.
At the April 9 Corvallis Science Pub, Simonich, an environmental chemist, will discuss her research on regional and international sources of pollution in the western United States. Using facilities in Oregon and other western states to track air movement, she and her colleagues have correlated the results of air and soil sampling in parks with events such as forest fires and pesticide use. She will discuss the factors that influence pollutant transport to and distribution in soils, plants and animals.
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Follow the Daily Galaxy A recent study by a team of scientists at Oregon State University of a meteorite that originated from revealed a series of microscopic tunnels that are similar in size, shape and distribution to tracks left on Earth rocks by feeding bacteria.... |
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Bayer Environmental Science Expands Growing Technical Service Team for the ... Golembiewski, currently an assistant professor and turfgrass specialist at Oregon State University, will join Bayer Environmental Science on April 1. He will be based in Columbus, Ohio, where he will be responsible for the direction of technical ... |
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Fist-Pounding Seed Evangelist (Or, How to Start Your Own Seeds) And most domestic seeds come from Oregon. Now, I'm not trying to get all Biggie/Tupac, East Coast/West Coast on ya, but my soil is different (I'm in PA), my bugs are different, my needs and wants are different You get where I am going with this, ... |
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Loggers give unique Oregon ponderosa pine a lifeline And ponderosas taken from dry eastern Oregon and replanted in the soggy Willamette Valley usually die within a few years. With this evidence in hand, scientists are now in the process of getting Pinus ponderosa var. willamettensis formally recognized ... |
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Global Sea Level Likely to Rise As Much As 70 Feet in Future Generations The scientists, led by Kenneth Miller of Rutgers University, reached their conclusion by studying rock and soil cores taken in Virginia, New Zealand and the Eniwetok Atoll in the north Pacific Ocean. They looked at the late Pliocene epoch, ... |
