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A Wave of New Earth-Science Faculty Joins GPS Division

Caltech Today

For Andrew Thompson, assistant professor of environmental science and engineering who joined GPS in August, growing up in Rhode Island gave him a natural affinity for the ocean. Now, he studies physical ocean science, focusing on eddies. While Thompson studies the way sea storms move things around, new faculty member and alum Victor Tsai, assistant professor of geophysics, is busy measuring the seismic noise produced by the movements of the ocean—partly from the crashing of waves onto the shore.

Mexico quake’s path veered from norm

Deborah Williams-Hedges
Data from the El Mayor–Cucapah earthquake are providing unexpected and surprising results according to Jean-Phillipe Avouac, Tectonics Observatory director and principal investigator on a study of the quake.  The team analyzing the data includes postdoctoral scholar Shengji Wei, JPL geophysicist Eric Fielding, and others.  The story also ran in OurAmazingPlanet, redOrbit, and other media outlets.

Before the end

Peter Rejcek
Geobiologist Joe Kirschvink and collaborators have found evidence of a pre-cursor extinction prior to the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

Yeast Get By on Almost No Oxygen

Daniel Strain
Geobiologist Joseph Kirschvink and colleague Jacob Waldbauer provide divergent comment on a study regarding how yeast may have thrived when Earth’s early atmosphere had less oxygen available.

A Freaky Fluid inside Jupiter

Dauna Coulter
Planetary scientist David Stevenson comments on the properties of liquid metallic hydrogen and the possibility that it makes up a significant amount of Jupiter’s core. It is planned that the Juno mission will investigate and confirm this.

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