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Andrea Dutton: The Scholar's Circle radio program
Sea Level Rise Discussion
September 22, 2013
Geological Sciences Assistant Professor Andrea Dutton's research on past sea level rise and what might happen in the future was discussed on the Scholar's Circle radio program. Hosted by Maria Armoudian and broadcast in California, Texas, and the Midwest, Dutton talked about her research examining the Last Interglacial, a time period before the last Ice Age with temperature conditions similar to today, except that the polar regions were a few degrees warmer. This was a warm period with polar ice sheets much like those currently in existence. She said compared to that time, temperatures are now changing much faster on a global scale.
By studying fossil corals, Dutton determined sea level then was 18- to 30-feet higher than it is now, implying that polar ice sheets are very sensitive to very small increases in temperature. Her current research looks at when, how long, and under what conditions the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed. She said her research suggests temperature increases of only a few degrees at the poles expected to occur within decades could commit us to reaching these very high sea levels at some point in the future.
Andrea Dutton: Amherst Magazine
Rise of the Oceans
Summer 2013
Geological Sciences Assistant Professor Andrea Dutton's research dating dead coral formations in Seychelles to determine specific historical sea levels at various elevations was featured in an article in Amherst Magazine. The area studied was formerly under water. The article reports that her work, along with data from other scientists, suggests that continued melting of ice sheets as polar temperatures increase could lead to average global sea level rise of 20 to 30 feet. She said the potential problem is greater for the Eastern U.S. coastline because the land is sinking, creating the possibility of greater sea level rise than the global average.
Andrea Dutton: New York Times
Timing a Rise in Sea Level
August 12, 2013
Geological Sciences Assistant Professor Andrea Dutton was quoted in the New York Times commenting about another scientist's paper on predicting the timing of sea level rise. Dr. Michael O'Leary of Curtin University in Australia examined the period between 127,000 and 119,000 years ago just preceding the most recent Ice Age. By looking at fossil beaches and coastal coral reefs, he found that sea level then had stabilized 10 to 12 feet above the current level before jumping about 17 feet, ending up 30 feet above the modern level. He believes this rapid sea level increase took less than a thousand years.
Dutton told the Times that while she couldn't assess O'Leary's conclusion until the data is published, if his work is valid, it has profound implications. She said such a large, rapid jump in sea level could only be caused by the collapse of a polar ice sheet.
Anthony Randazzo: Tampa Bay Times
Line of sinkholes could be sign of more to come
June 13, 2013
Geological Sciences Emeritus Professor Anthony Randazzo, now president of Gainesville-based Geohazards, Inc., was quoted in the Tampa Bay Times about the continuing likelihood of sinkholes in the Seffner, FL area. This city was recently in the news when a sinkhole-caused collapse under a home killed one of its occupants.
Randazzo told the Times sinkholes are often triggered by "sinkhole weather" where intense periods of rainfall (as from tropical storms) follow periods of drought. He believes sinkholes are more likely to occur along a fracture zone in the limestone. Sinkholes form when limestone dissolves and the ground above it collapses.
Jerry Black: CNN's Anderson Cooper 360
Go inside a sinkhole
May 5, 2013
Geological Sciences alumnus Jerry Black, who is Vice President of Environmental Field Operations for Gainesville-based Geohazards Inc., was interviewed by David Mattingly for CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 show inside the Devil's Den. This large sinkhole in Williston is used for tourism and scuba diving. The visit showed how large underground sinkholes can be even if they cannot be seen above ground.
Black also appeared on Fox News on March 5 discussing the Seffner sinkhole (see article below) that collapsed suddenly, demolishing a house and killing one occupant. Black explained how sinkholes form when groundwater erodes limestone, forming cavities, which is why they are so common in Florida. He said collapse sinkholes are hard to predict, but subsidence sinkholes may reveal evidence of their existence in the form of cracks in homes or ground depressions.
Anthony Randazzo: NPR's All Things Considered and others
Florida sinkhole swallows man
March 1-5, 2013
Geological Sciences Professor Emeritus Anthony Randazzo, now president of Gainesville-based Geohazards, Inc., was interviewed by numerous media outlets in March, 2013 after a 30-foot-wide sinkhole opened suddenly in Seffner, FL, destroying a house and killing one of its occupants. They included National Public Radio's All Things Considered, ABC's 20/20, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Fox News, The Guardian (United Kingdom), the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, BBC, and many others.
Randazzo pointed out while sinkholes are common in Florida, deaths from them are not. He said he could recall only two other people who died in the U.S. due to sinkholes in the past 40 years. In both cases, the victims were drilling water wells, which triggered the sinkholes.
Randazzo was quoted by Chicago's WBEZ Radio on April 18 about a 40-foot hole there that consumed three cars and injured a man. He said this was a pothole and not a sinkhole. He was also quoted in follow up articles about sinkhole risk in Florida in the Orlando Sentinel and the Ocala Star-Banner.
Raymond Russo: Gainesville Sun
Boom brings theories, no answers
March 23, 2013
Geological Sciences Associate Professor Raymond Russo was interviewed by the Gainesville Sun about a window rattling sonic boom on March 21, 2013 that affected a large area of North Central Florida. Law enforcement agencies received many calls about the boom. Russo said people could mistake it for thunder. He said the event was likely caused by a military-grade jet breaking the sound barrier. When planes fly faster than the speed of sound, a sonic boom results because a shock wave forms at the front of the plane, spreading out in a cone shape. Russo said planes at higher altitudes create wider cones, allowing the sonic boom to affect a larger area.
Andrea Dutton: NHK TV
Today's Close-up
January, 2013
Geological Sciences Assistant Professor Andrea Dutton will appear in late January on the daily show "Today's Close-up," broadcast by NHK, a Japanese public television network. She was interviewed on campus by producer Rie Koko on January 4 about her research on the fluctuation of the Antarctic ice sheet in the past. Until recently it was thought the East Antarctic ice sheet was relatively stable even in warmer climates. Dutton's research demonstrates that during a previous warm period the East Antarctic ice sheet was probably reduced in size, and contributed to higher sea levels, when polar temperatures were only a few degrees warmer than they are now.
The 30-minute program emphasizes issues in science and medicine. "After the tsunami and the earthquake in Japan, most of our shows focused on radiation," Koko said. "We have recently started focusing on other important issues like poverty and Alzheimer's and are trying to bring back other topics."
Sean Patrick Adams: Bloomberg View
Why District Steam Heat Flopped in Gilded Age New York
History Associate Professor Sean Adams published a post on Echoes, which is a blog on the Bloomberg View site, about the inadvertent negative effects created when the New York Steam Company brought centralized steam heat to parts of New York city.
Harvey Lillywhite: Science Journal
Salt and the Sea Serpent
Despite millions of years living in the ocean, sea snakes still have to watch their salt intake. Biology Professor Harvey Lillywhite has tested hundreds of sea snakes to see if they will drink fresh water.
Ted Schuur: Associated Press
UN says thawing permafrost to boost global warming
Biology Associate Professor Ted Schuur's work on the contribution of permafrost melting to CO2 in the atmosphere has influenced policy makers at the UN. A U.N. report released in November says that thawing permafrost covering almost a quarter of the northern hemisphere could "significantly amplify global warming" at a time when the world is already struggling to reign in rising greenhouse gases
The warning comes as United Nations climate negotiations enter a second day, with the focus on the Kyoto Protocol – a legally-binding emissions cap that expires this year and remains the most significant international achievement in the fight against global warming. Countries are hoping to negotiate an extension to the pact that runs until at least 2020.
Brian Silliman: NBC News
Reminders of BP oil spill persist (video)
On the docks in Louisiana, fishermen and oystermen say the effects of the BP oil spill remain today. Biology Assistant Professor Brian Silliman and his grad student Marc Hensel featured their work in this video shown on NBC News on the impacts of the BP oil spill on salt marshes, which was also published recently in PNAS.
Andrea Dutton: New York Times
Rising Seas, Vanishing Coastlines
November 24, 2012
Research by Geological Sciences Assistant Professor Andrea Dutton published in Science was cited in a New York Times article entitled "Rising Seas, Vanishing Coastlines." The article highlights the scientific basis for expecting a significant future rise in sea level and increasing frequency of coastal flooding such as that experienced during Hurricane Sandy. Dutton's research focused on sea level changes during a warm period about 125,000 years ago, before the last ice age. Although Earth's orbit differed then, with more sunshine on the Arctic, the analogy with today's conditions is still compelling.
George Kamenov: New York Times
A Jane Doe Gets a Back Story
November 12, 2012
Research presented by Associate in Geology George Kamenov at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in November was cited in a New York Times article entitled "A Jane Doe Gets a Back Story." Kamenov did isotope analysis on hair, teeth, and bone samples from an unidentified murder victim whose body was discovered in Sumter County, FL, in 1971. Contrary to what investigators believed, the analysis indicated she was from Europe, most likely from Greece, arriving in this area within a year before her death. Kamenov based his conclusions on lead isotopes showing similarity to the leaded gasoline used in Europe, and oxygen isotopes, indicating that she grew up in Southern Europe, near the Mediterranean Sea. Carbon isotopes in her hair, which changed from a wheat-based to a corn-based diet, suggested the move from Europe to the United States was within few months to a year before her death. Although information about and a reconstructed image of the woman were published in October in an international Greek-language newspaper, her identity remains unknown.
Blair Foster: Gainesville.com
Gainesville native Blair Foster wins Emmy for film on George Harrison
Gainesville native Blair Foster has won an Emmy Award for her work on the HBO documentary, "George Harrison: Living in the Material World." Foster, a graduate of Eastside High School and the University of Florida (BA, History), shared the Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special, which was awarded Sept. 15 during the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
As supervising producer of the documentary, which recounted Harrison's life both with The Beatles and beyond, Foster shared in the award with five others, including Harrison's widow, Olivia Harrison, and Martin Scorsese, both of whom won as producers of the program.
Foster previously won the 2009 Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Research for her work on another HBO documentary, ÒTaxi to the Dark Side,Ó which examined practices of torture by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq, including the torture of an Afghani taxi driver who died in 2002.
Padgett Powell: University of Edinburgh News and Events
Winners announced for Britain's oldest literary prizes
Acclaimed novelist Padgett Powell and leading biographer Fiona MacCarthy have joined the roll call of celebrated writers to win the James Tait Black Prizes, Britain’s oldest literary awards.
The winners of the £10,000 prizes, — awarded annually by the English Literature department at the University of Edinburgh, — were announced this evening (Saturday, 21 August) by broadcaster Sally Magnusson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
American writer Padgett Powell, whose work has been was nominated for an American Book Award and excerpted in The New Yorker, is winner of the fiction prize for his book You and I.
One of Britain’s foremost literary biographers, Fiona MacCarthy is the recipient of the biography prize for her book on the British artist and designer Edward Burne-Jones, Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination.
The prizes are for the best work of fiction and the best biography published during the previous 12 months.
This year the James Tait Black Prizes have been extended to include a new category for drama. The prize for the best original new play written in English, Scots or Gaelic has been organised by the University in partnership with the National Theatre of Scotland. The first winner of this award will be announced in August 2013.
The James Tait Black's roster of former winners includes some of the best writers in the literary canon with past winners including DH Lawrence, Ian McEwan and Cormac McCarthy.
Fiction winner Padgett Powell, who is a a Professor of writing at the University of Florida, saw off competition from authors including ManBooker Prize nominee A.D. Miller and Scots writer Ali Smith, who also made the fiction shortlist in 2006 and 2011.
Fiction winner Padgett Powell said: “The woman who forty years ago inspired me and supported me in the presumption to write—she appears in my first book as a "literary mother"—has recently written me that she considers the James Tait Black Prize second to the Nobel. I do not gainsay her.”
Veteran biographer Fiona McCarthy topped a biography that included Pulitzer Prize winner Manning Marable for his book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, and Australian author Ian Donaldson for his biography of Renaissance dramatist Ben Johnson.
Biography judge Professor Jonathan Wild of the University of Edinburgh, said: “The James Tait Black Prizes have a very long history of celebrating the work of great novelists and biographers. The quality of works we considered this year was top notch, which made the shortlisting process even more difficult than usual.”
The four novels competing for the fiction prize were: Snowdrops by A.D. Miller; Solace by Belinda McKeon; You and I by Padgett Powell; There But For The by Ali Smith.
The shortlisted works for the biography section were: Ben Jonson: A Life by Ian Donaldson; The Last Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy; Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable; Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life by Susie Harries, which also won the 2011 Wolfson History Prize.
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes were founded in 1919 by Janet Coats, the widow of publisher James Tait Black, to commemorate her deceased husband’s love of reading. They are the only major British book awards judged by scholars and postgraduate literature students.
The announcement of the new drama prize was made as part of the celebrations to mark 250 years of English Literature study at the University of Edinburgh.
Later in the year the University will be making a special award for the ‘Best of the James Tait Black’ in fiction.
The award-winner will be drawn from fiction winners since the award began in 1919.
A shortlist of authors will be announced in the Autumn.
For further information on the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes please go to: http://www.ed.ac.uk/james-tait-black
For further information please contact: Joanne Morrison, University of Edinburgh, Press and PR Office, tel 0131 6514 266. Mobile: 07717707623; email: joanne.morrison@ed.ac.uk
Andrea Dutton: ABC Australia radio, the LA Times, and WUFT-FM
Rising global temperatures could mean higher than anticipated sea level peak
July 13, 2012
Geological Sciences Assistant Professor Andrea Dutton was quoted by ABC Australia radio, the LA Times, and WUFT-FM about her research suggesting sea level peaked between 18 and 30 feet above current sea level during the last interglacial period about 125,000 years ago. The conclusions by Dutton and her Australian co-author published in Science on July 13 were based on analysis of fossil coral reef data. The previous sea level peak provides insight on how the earth could respond in future to rising polar temperatures. She was also interviewed by the New York Times.
Mark Brenner: PBS
"Quest for the Lost Maya" special
March 28
Geological Sciences Professor Mark Brenner appeared on PBS's National Geographic special, "Quest for the Lost Maya." Archaeologists found evidence of previously unknown early Maya occupation hidden under an ancient pyramid in the Yucatan jungle. Structures included a huge palace complex. This ancient Maya community lacked nearby surface water sources and relied on rainwater stored in cisterns especially in the protracted dry season. The classic Maya abandoned the area around 900 AD without an obvious reason.
Studying sediment cores taken from a lake 50 miles away, Brenner and colleagues Senior Associate in Geology Jason Curtis and former Geological Sciences Professor David Hodell (now at University of Cambridge) discovered there had been a series of severe droughts, probably lasting from three to 20 years, including one that occurred coincident with the Maya departure from the area. Because the cisterns could store a limited water supply, it is believed drought forced the residents to leave. Political instability probably prevented their return. The special can be seen at http://www.pbs.org/programs/quest-lost-maya/.
Geological Sciences PhD graduate, faculty, and graduate students: Smithsonian Channel
"Titanoboa: Monster Snake" special
April 1, 2012
Information on research about the discovery of the world's largest snake will be presented on "Titanoboa: Monster Snake" on the Smithsonian Channel premiering April 1 at 8 pm. A team co-organized by Florida Museum of Natural History Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, Anthropology, and Zoology Jonathan Bloch and UF Geological Sciences PhD graduate and Smithsonian staff scientist Carlos Jaramillo found fossils of 28 snakes in a Colombian coal mine, but researchers did not realize they were snakes until 2007 because they were so large. The 48-feet long, 2,500 pound Titanoboa lived 58 million years ago.
Other UF team members include Geological Sciences and Florida Museum of Natural History PhD candidates Alex Hastings and Aldo Rincon, and Biology PhD candidate (and Geological Sciences masters graduate) Fabiany Herrera. All appear on the show. The full broadcast schedule and more information about the show are available at http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/sn/show.do?show=140671#main. The show can be seen in Gainesville on April 7 on WGFL CBS4 at 12:30 pm and on WMYG MY11 at 8:00 pm and on April 8 at 1:00 pm on WNBW NBC9.
Michael Perfit: WCJB-TV and Gainesville.com
Collectors' Day at Florida Museum of Natural History
January 22, 2012
Geological Sciences UF Research Foundation Professor and Chair Michael Perfit was interviewed on WCJB-TV talking about his volcano souvenir collection during its display at the Florida Museum of Natural History's annual Collectors' Day. A photo of Perfit explaining the geology of volcanos to museum visitors at the event appeared on Gainesville.com.
James E.T. Channell: The New York Times, Voice of America, Wall Street Journal and BBC News
Next ice age will be postponed
January 8, 2012
Geological Sciences Distinguished Professor James E.T. Channell was quoted by the New York Times and the Voice of America suggesting, by analogy with previous ice ages, that the next ice age will be postponed indefinitely because of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Research by Channell and co-authors in the United Kingdom and Norway just published in Nature Geoscience explains that the high current levels of carbon dioxide will prevent the natural cycle of cooling that would, in the absence of high carbon dioxide levels, cause the onset of the next ice age within 1500 years. The delayed cooling will result in melting of continental ice sheets and sea level rise. Comments on the study were also published by the Wall Street Journal, which interviewed Channell, and BBC News.
Michelle C. Mack and Edward A. G. Schuur: The New York Times
As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study the Risks
December 16, 2011
The Biology Department's Michelle C. Mack and Edward A. G. Schuur were quoted in a New York Times story about the thawing of permafrost and the resulting increase in the release of carbon due to fires. Scientists have calculated that a fire in 2007 and its aftermath sent a huge pulse of carbon into the air – as much as would be emitted in two years by a city the size of Miami. Scientists say the fire thawed the upper layer of permafrost and set off what they fear will be permanent shifts in the landscape.
Joseph Meert: The Florida Times-Union
Shifts in Earth's magnetic field affect Jacksonville International Airport
runways
December 16, 2011
Geological Sciences Department Associate Professor Joseph Meert was quoted in a Florida Times-Union story about the recent repainting of airport runway numbers at Jacksonville International Airport due to Earth's shifting magnetic field. The FAA requires runway numbers to match their magnetic compass headings, but those headings change due to magnetic north's constant shift. This happens because the planet's outer, liquid core is always moving around its inner, solid core, he explained. Other airports are also affected by this phenomenon.
Andrea Dutton: WCJB-TV20
National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
Preparatory Project
October 28, 2011
Geological Sciences Assistant Professor Andrea Dutton was interviewed by WCJB-TV20 on October 28 about the satellite launched by NASA that morning. The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) is a mission to collect and distribute remotely-sensed land, ocean, and atmospheric data to the meteorological and global climate change communities. She explained the types of data the satellite will collect, why it is important, and what it can tell us about ongoing climate change. See video of the interview.
Alex Hastings: Gainesville Sun, MSNBC and more
Giant extinct crocodile discovered
September 15, 2011
Information on Geological Sciences and Florida Museum of Natural History Ph.D. candidate Alex Hastings' research about the discovery of an extinct crocodile, originally published in the September 15 issue of Palaeontology, has been widely disseminated. Hastings was the lead researcher who found fossilized remains of the 20-foot-long crocodile in the same Colombian coal mine where Titanoba, the world's largest snake, was known to live. Reports on the research were published by the Gainesville Sun and online by MSNBC, Smithsonian Science, BBC News, Fox News, International Business Times, National Geographic Daily News, Discovery.com, Wired.com, History.com, Futurity.org and numerous others.
Michelle Mack: Nature
Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire
July 28, 2011
Michelle Mack and colleagues report measurements of carbon loss from an Alaskan Arctic wildfire
in 2007, which burned an area equal to the total that had been burned since 1950. The authors find
that about 2.1 teragrams of carbon was released to the atmosphere - an amount similar to the net
amount of carbon absorbed each year by the entire Arctic tundra biome. The results show how a
single fire can rapidly change the net carbon balance of the tundra, and provide a mechanism
for amplification of climate warming.
Audio article and blog with photos
Joseph Meert: Earth
Creationism Creeps into Mainstream Geology
June 10, 2011
Associate professor of Geological Sciences Joseph Meert's confrontation with a creationist during the October 2010 Geological Society of America meeting was mentioned in an article in the July 2011 issue of Earth. The article is entitled Creationism Creeps into Mainstream Geology. At the meeting Meert took issue with the creationist’s view that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
Peter Adams: WUFT-FM
Mississippi River Flooding
May 25, 2011
Assistant professor of Geological Sciences Peter Adams was interviewed by WUFT-FM on May 25 about this year’s historic Mississippi River flooding. He said the increased flows of water and sediment could change both the above ground and underwater landscapes of the area. Flooding can cause avulsion, a process in which the river’s route and course are altered, he explained. Manmade control structures increase the risk of an abrupt change with the potential for coastal erosion, impacts on water resources, habitat alterations, and other consequences downstream.
Andrew Rinzler: MSN
Gather Around the Nanotubes of the Future
April 28, 2011
Physics professor Andrew Rinzler was interviewed in an April 28 MSN news story on his research paper in Science on carbon nanotubes and their potential for use in next-generation television screens and computer monitors using organic light-emitting diodes.
Lisa E. Hasel: Philadelphia Inquirer
How
useful are police composite sketches?
April 25, 2011
Assistant professor of criminology Lisa E. Hasel was quoted in an April 25 Philadelphia Inquirer story on the effectiveness of the composite sketch in police investigations.
Vasudha Narayanan: Huffington Post
The
Many Flavors of the Hindu New Year
April 14, 2011
In an op-ed to the Huffington Post, Religion chair Vasudha Narayanan looks at the multiple days and ways in which Hindus around the world celebrate the new year.
Joseph Murphy: St. Petersburg Times
After the Tsunami, Reflecting on the Japanese Sense of Home
April 3, 2011
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures professor Joseph Murphy discusses the tsunami and the relationship of Japanese philosophy and natural disasters in a special op-ed to the St. Petersburg Times.
Mark Panning: Gainesville Sun
8.9 Quake is 5th Largest Big Ones not More Frequent, UF Expert Says
March 11, 2011
Geological Sciences Department assistant professor and seismologist Mark Panning was quoted in the Gainesville Sun on March 11 regarding the 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan. He explained that while this was the 5th strongest earthquake since 1900, there has not been a greater frequency of strong earthquakes in the past five years. Panning was also interviewed about the Japanese earthquake by WUFT-FM, GTN, WCJB-TV20, and the Florida News Network.
Dan Smith: Palm Beach Post
Florida Might Disrupt Presidential Primary Schedule
March 9, 2011
Political Science professor Daniel Smith was quoted in a March 9 Palm Beach Post story about the possible consequences of Florida planning an early presidential primary.
Lance Gravlee: Chicago Tribune
Northwestern to Investigate Controversial Sex Demonstration
March 3, 2011
Lance Gravlee, an associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in a March 3 Chicago Tribune story about a Northwestern University human sexuality professor who allowed students to watch a demonstration of a sex toy in his class.
Matthew Jacobs: Ocala Star-Banner
Events
Could Transform Mideast, UF Professor Says
February 22, 2011
Assitant professor of history Matthew Jacobs was the subject of a February 22 Ocala Star-Banner article that looked at Jacob's class, current events in the Middle East, and Jacobs upcoming book, Imagining the Middle East: Making an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967.
Monika Ardelt: Orlando Sentinel
Compassion for Vets
January 24, 2011
Sociologist Monika Ardelt was quoted in a January 14 Orlando Sentinel column about the care of war veterans when they return to the United States.
Daniel Smith: Florida Times-Union
Tough Times? Not for these Lawmakers with Net Worths of Six Figures
January 18, 2011
Political Science professor Daniel Smith was quoted in a Jan. 9 Florida Times-Union story about how wealthy northeast Florida lawmakers may be out of touch with the people they represent.
Eric Ford: Wired
New
Study Finds No Sign of ‘First Habitable Exoplanet’
January 18, 2011
Astronomy professor Eric Ford was quoted in a January 18 Wired article on Gliese 581g, reported in September of 2010 as the first planet found orbiting in the habitable zone of another star.
Richard Scher: St. Petersburg Times
Cabinet
to Rick Scott: No, You Can't Veto our Regulations
January 14, 2011
Political Science assistant professor Richard Scher was quoted in a January 14 St. Petersburg Times story on Governor Scott's executive order requiring approval for any new state rules in departments under his office.
Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo: NPR
Amazon Digs Indicate Advanced Indian Civilizations
January 12, 2011
Anthropology assistant professor Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo was featured in a January 12 NPR story on the discovery of the evidence of advanced civilizations in the Amazon river basin.
