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Chair: Raymond Arvidson

Telephone: (314) 935-5603

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Of time and the River City

National sundial group tours St. Louis area's sundials (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/12091.html)

Aug. 4, 2008 --
David Kilper/WUSTL Photo
A group of about 45 sundial enthusiasts will tour 15 St. Louis area sundials.
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While we are bombarded daily with gloomy stories about Earth going to a hot place in a handbasket, a group of roughly 45 enthusiasts from around the country are meeting in St. Louis, August 7-10, to celebrate the beauty of the Earth moving around the sun.


Antarctica's slip is showing

Data show Antarctic ice stream radiating seismically (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/11833.html)

June 4, 2008 --
Image courtesy of Doug Wiens
Douglas Wiens (left), and a colleague ready equipment to emplace seismographs in Antarctica during a 2001 expedition.
A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis along with colleagues at Pennsylvania State University and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have found seismic signals from a giant river of ice in Antarctica that make California's earthquake problem seem trivial. Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, and colleagues combined seismological and global positioning system (GPS) analyses to reveal two bursts of seismic waves from an ice stream in Antarctica every day, each one equivalent to a magnitude seven earthquake.


Missouri earthquake awareness month

Seminar to address ways to lessen earthquake damage (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/10999.html)

Feb. 6, 2008 -- The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is presenting a series of seminars and workshops on the topic of reducing the damage that would occur when a strong earthquake strikes the New Madrid fault area again.



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