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Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick	Glacial earthquakes Seismologists have fingered glaciers as one source of newly discovered "slow" earthquakes.
Geotimes March 2007 Carolyn Gramling	New Madrid Fault Dying? A series of devastating earthquakes that altered the course of the Mississippi River in the early 19th century may have been among the last gasps of an old, dying fault system, a controversial new study suggests.
Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman	Squishy plates Using groundbreaking satellite techniques, new research suggests continental crust reacts to strain more like toothpaste than rigid blocks of rock.
Smithsonian August 2005 Laura Helmuth	Phenomena and Curiosities: Baked Alaska A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska's glaciers, blamed on global warming.
Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt	Antarctic Ice Connections The West Antarctic ice sheet contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice. Were it to collapse due to global warming, it would raise global sea level by 5 meters, catastrophically inundating low-lying areas.
Scientific American June 2009 Charles Q. Choi	Are Midwestern Earthquake Faults Shutting Down? Midwesterners may have already seen the last of earthquakes in their region
Geotimes November 2003 Helz et al.	SAR: A Versatile New Tool for Earth Science Widespread availability of data from synthetic aperture radar has permitted the technology's application to a broad range of geoscience problems. The field has blossomed in the last decade.
Geotimes March 2005 Susan E. Hough	Earthquakes: Predicting the Unpredictable? Seismologists are quite good at identifying where large earthquakes are likely to occur on time scales of several decades to centuries, but still unable to identify regions where earthquakes will happen tomorrow, next week, or even within the next few years.
Scientific American September 2008 Krista West	Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve
Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Trevor Williams	Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up.
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen	Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming.
Geotimes May 2004 Naomi Lubick	New New Madrid Findings New research has moved a historical earthquake off the New Madrid faults, possibly changing the hazard conditions for the region and across the eastern United States.
Geotimes April 2005	Geomedia Arctic Climate Change in Photos... Book review: Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Doug Macdougall... Mapping Sinkhole Risk in Maryland...
Geotimes March 2005 Sara Pratt	Quake Uplifted Japan A large 17th-century earthquake comparable in size to the Dec. 26 Sumatra quake was responsible for pushing up land in Japan, according to new research based on the sediment record of a large tsunami.
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick	California Earthquake Roundup Several significant earthquakes have struck California this week, ranging from 4.9 to 7.2 in magnitude, with two off the coast of Northern California and two in the Los Angeles basin. Scientists say that they are mostly unrelated.
Geotimes December 2006 Margaret Putney	Tsunami Risk Still High in Sumatra Another major earthquake and tsunami will strike the western coast of Sumatra sometime in the next few decades, according to researchers studying the region's history. And the predicted tsunami has a significant chance of hitting densely populated areas, the team says.
Geotimes November 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Tsunami Risk High in Myanmar Once thought to be relatively seismically quiet, the northern part of the Bay of Bengal may instead be prone to giant earthquakes that could spawn tsunamis, with potentially devastating consequences for the bay's densely populated coasts, according to a new study.
Geotimes October 2003 Josh Chamot	Earthquake warning tools The ability to forecast a seismic event has been an elusive goal, but researchers are accepting the challenge and are using recent advances in seismic and computational technology to attempt to decipher Earth's subtle clues.
Geotimes July 2007	Geophysicist Ross Stein Like all who study earthquakes, Ross Stein doesn't want to just understand them - he wants to anticipate them.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Bolivian Earthquake Strikes Deep A magnitude-6.9 earthquake rumbled through Bolivia and northern Chile yesterday. No immediate deaths or damage were reported, although people evacuated their homes.
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown	NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict.
Geotimes March 2004 Mark Zoback	Earthquake Prediction and the Developing World The toll from the Iranian earthquake in December -- at least 30,000 dead and an estimated 40,000 homeless in just a few seconds -- is difficult to comprehend. Unfortunately, we can predict with reasonable certainty that sometime in the next few years, in a country with buildings unprepared to withstand disaster, a catastrophic quake will happen again
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick	Super-Size Quake California fell into the sea during a television miniseries aired by NBC. In addition to the other faulty geologic premises of the melodrama, one elemental error is the size of the earthquake that spawned the miniseries' disasters.
Geotimes November 2006 Rod Combellick	Building a Natural Gas Pipeline Through Earthquake Country With proposals now being considered to build a natural gas pipeline, it is ever-important to understand the seismic hazards along potential routes, so that the pipeline and its spurs can be properly designed and managed for seismic safety.
Geotimes October 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Strong Earthquake Shakes up Hawaii A magnitude-6.7 earthquake rumbled through the island chain of Hawaii, originating near Hawaii island, known as the "Big Island," according to the USGS. An aftershock with a magnitude of 6.0 followed seven minutes later.
Popular Mechanics February 15, 2009 Karen Rowan	Predicting Earthquakes: Scientists Use Satellites and Drills to Follow a Force of Nature The awesome energy unleashed by earthquakes is something geologists still struggle to understand. To gather information on how the Earth moves, scientists use drills and GPS satellites.
Science News February 14, 2009 Lonnie Thompson	Receding Glaciers Erase Records Of Climate History Ice masses on the tops of mountains -- sticking out in the free atmosphere -- have been collecting climate data and storing them, in many cases for very long periods.
Geotimes April 2005 Naomi Lubick	Sumatra Quake Stronger Than Thought Now that researchers have had time to go back to the records, they are finding indications that last December's Sumatra earthquake released much more energy than they thought, in the form of rare low-frequency seismic waves.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Shift in Chile's Seismic History New research documenting tsunami deposits in the Nazca plate region is resetting the seismic clock.
Geotimes April 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Deep Sediments, Strong Quakes The surprising strength of the earthquake that triggered the 2004 Sumatran tsunami urged seismologists to discover triggers that lead up to these events. New models show responsibility may rest on sediments than can collect kilometers deep at the junctions of tectonic plates.
Geotimes March 2004 Naomi Lubick	Seismic premonitions While most seismologists tend to steer clear of the word "prediction," several international teams are working toward that "holy grail" of seismology. One such team released a forecast in January, saying that an earthquake of at least magnitude 6.4 would occur in Southern California before Sept. 5, 2004.
Geotimes September 2004 Sara Pratt	Geophenomena Lake Vostok's Complicating Ridge Could Alter Current Efforts to Sample the Lake... Gauging the Geysers with Quakes...
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Erico Guizzo	Into Deep Ice What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Bleier & Freund	Earthquake Alarm Impending earthquakes have been sending us warning signals -- and people are finally starting to listen.
Geotimes May 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Slow Earthquakes, Tiny Tremors Small earthquakes and tiny tremors originating deep in fault zones are the result of slow earthquakes at Earth's surface, according to a new study.
Popular Mechanics October 5, 2009 Amber Angelle	Earthquake Research Digs Deep to Find Timely Warning System Right now, the best that seismologists can do to "predict" earthquakes is to send out a warning immediately after activity is detected.
Geotimes February 2004 Hetherington et al.	Quest for the Lost Land The search for early Americans is taking researchers to the coast of British Columbia, where a now-submerged landscape may hold clues to the first settlers' coastal migration.
Geotimes April 2007 Sally Adee	Massive Antarctic Lakes Discovered The recent discovery of a massive "plumbing" system of linked reservoirs 1,000 meters beneath two major ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may help fill out climate change models.
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Dave Levitan	Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Ice Hunter: Q&A With Lonnie Thompson An interview with glaciologist and Byrd Polar Research Center scientist Lonnie Thompson about what it mean to hunt ice and about some his current work.
Geotimes May 2006 Naomi Lubick	Measuring the Sumatra Quake The motions on the fault that set off the Dec. 26, 2004, earthquake that sent a tsunami across the Indian Ocean continue to puzzle seismologists.
Geotimes June 2006 Megan Sever	Plate Shifts in the Pacific Northwest The far northern section of the Sumatra-style subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest could be transforming into more of a San Andreas-style seismic zone, according to new research. This geologic reorganization could have implications for the region's earthquake risk.
Geotimes September 2004 Naomi Lubick	Lucy Jones: The Calm After the Quake Now a leading earthquake scientist, Lucy Jones is the voice of seismology for Southern California, and her new position as chair of the California Seismic Safety Commission has the potential to pump up the volume of her message.
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever	A year of global ice observations Scientists are now getting the most accurate view ever of changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The new maps, using NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, are shedding light on the processes controlling these ice masses, which comprise 75 percent of Earth's freshwater.
Geotimes October 2003 Sara Pratt	New model for glacial erosion Understanding what controls glacial erosion may have important implications for understanding glaciated mountain belts and modeling both ancient and current ice sheets.
Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick	Seismic Warnings Researchers suggest that the first few seconds of an earthquake have the potential to reveal the final size that an earthquake will grow to be -- with implications for how earthquakes physically unfold.
Geotimes September 2003 Megan Sever	Giant earthquake hits Japan A magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck off the southeastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan, before dawn on Friday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Japanese quake is the strongest to hit anywhere in the world this year.
Geotimes August 2004 Sara Pratt	Pressure Shifts in Yellowstone The 2002 rupture of Alaska's Denali fault triggered more than 250 smaller-magnitude quakes, altering the eruption behavior of many of the park's famed geysers.
Geotimes June 2007 Megan Sever	Antarctic Ice May be Grinding to a Halt Some of Antarctica's ice sheets may not be in as much danger as once thought.
Scientific American March 2005 Madhusree Mukerjee	The Scarred Earth Tsunami-spawning quake leaves geophysical changes.