In Jamestown, Va., historic Jamestowne archaeologists have discovered a virtual time capsule of environmental and cultural data sealed inside an enormous well that may have been built by Capt. John Smith nearly 400 years ago.
The 21st Century Ground Water Systems Conference to be held Oct. 12-13, 2006, in Costa Mesa, Calif., will place a special emphasis on the use of ground water resources.
Pennsylvania flood victims who wish to take advantage of free water well testing kits should contact the regional offices of the state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) prior to Sept. 8.
Each year, nearly 40,000 tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth from outer space. Now, the first successful chronological study of extraterrestrial dust in an Antarctic ice core has shown that this amount has remained largely constant over the past 30,000 years, a finding that could help refine efforts to understand the timing and effects of changes in the Earth's past climate.
Scientists believe that Florida's very active 2004 hurricane season may have played an important part in the development of extensive red tide conditions that affected its coastal areas in 2005. The four hurricanes that crossed the Sunshine State in 2004 dumped as much as 27 inches of rain in central Florida, which increased ground water levels and rates of surface runoff, two factors thought to create conditions ripe for the bloom of a red tide.
Chena Hot Springs, just outside Fairbanks, is the first geothermal power plant to come on-line in the state; it also is the site of the lowest temperature resource ever used for commercial power generation.
Kansas Geological Survey senior scientist James Butler Jr., Ph.D., has been chosen as the 2007 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer in Ground Water Science by the National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation.
Ancient plant remains recovered in recent Arctic Ocean sampling cores shows that during a period of carbon dioxide-induced global warming, humidity, precipitation and salinity of the ocean water altered drastically, along with elevated global and regional temperatures.
The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, New York, is converting its present heating-cooling system to an energy-efficient geothermal system. The project is largest of its kind in New York City, and drilling for a series of standing column wells will begin this fall.
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