Mission: Ames
- earth science
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Down and Dirty in the Field
Sep 11, 2012 07:12:26 PM | Melissa Pandika
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- After spending the first half of the field session at Cedarville Airport, watching SIERRA collect magnetic data from the sky, a sudden change in plans finally gave me the chance to soil my hiking boots as I learned about how geoscientists gather data on the ground.
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A Valley of Surprises
Sep 07, 2012 10:40:22 AM | Melissa Pandika
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- The Surprise Valley field expedition is an expedition in every sense. On the one hand, the team is trying to map underground faults and fractures beyond a region whose subsurface they’ve already studied in great detail. But analyzing the data in these new maps has itself proven to be an expedition.
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Smoothing out the Kinks
Sep 06, 2012 02:47:01 AM | Melissa Pandika
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- How does science work? Though romanticized as a string of exciting, accidental discoveries, in reality, the bulk of scientific research happens in the prelude to discovery--the humbler, though no less exciting, process of troubleshooting.
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