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President-elect Joseph Biden has selected two MIT faculty leaders Broad Institute Director Eric Lander and Vice President for Research Maria Zuber for top science and technology posts in his administration.
Lander has been named Presidential Science Advisor, a position he will assume soon after Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. He has also been nominated as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a position that requires Senate confirmation.
Biden intends to elevate the Presidential Science Advisor, for the first time in history, to be a member of his Cabinet.
600-year-old marine sponge holds centuries old climate records By Diana Udel
Temperature records show past volcanic activity, current climate warming trends
MIAMI Scientists used a 600-year-old marine sponge to reconstruct a record of ocean temperature in the North Atlantic revealing past volcanic activity as well as the current global warming trend from the release of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gasses into Earth’s atmosphere and absorbed by the oceans.
The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led research team used geochemical proxies to reconstruct a 600 year-long record of Atlantic Ocean temperatures from the skeleton of a sclerosponge (
The strange story of Sandy Island, the remote Pacific outcrop that never existed
There is – in a very real sense of the familiar phrase – nothing to see here
Sandy Island on a 1908 map
The RV Southern Surveyor was sailing through the sunlight of a warm summer day when Dr Maria Seton noticed that something was wrong.
November 22 2012 should have been an ordinary date in the diary for this doughty Australian research vessel, as it studied the lay-out of the seabed in the Coral Sea, some 900 miles east of mainland Queensland. But after a few minutes of confusion, the geologist on its deck realised that, somehow and somewhere, the ship had left the chart. Seton and her colleagues were travelling freely across a horizon-wide patch of open ocean. The trouble was, the map said otherwise. In its esteemed opinion, they had just washed ashore – onto an island the size of Manhattan.