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Scientists use lasers to measure changes to tropical forests
Jan 24, 2009 |
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New technology deployed on airplanes is helping scientists quantify landscape-scale changes occurring to Big Island tropical forests from non-native plants and other environmental factors that affect carbon sequestration.
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World's largest telescope to be built in Hawaii
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hawaii was chosen Tuesday as the site for the world's biggest telescope, a device so powerful that it will allow scientists to see some 13 billion light years away and get a glimpse into the early ...
Lunar prospecting robot to be field tested on Hawaii's Mauna Kea
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 14, 2008 |
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The cool, rocky slopes of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is Hawaii's highest mountain, will serve as a stand-in for the moon as researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, NASA and other organizations ...
Alaska volcano spews 25,000 feet-high ash plume
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Observatory officials say Alaska's Mount Redoubt has spewed steam and ash up to 25,000 feet high.
Alaska volcano quiets down after making ashy mess
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Mar 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Alaska's Mount Redoubt has simmered down after spreading a coating of gritty volcanic ash over scores of communities that include the state's largest city of Anchorage.
Thirty-Meter Telescope Focuses on Two Candidate Sites
May 16, 2008 |
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After completing a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two outstanding sites, one ...
Alaska's Mount Redoubt spews ash 50,000 feet high
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Mar 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Alaska's Mount Redoubt has erupted again, spewing an ash cloud 50,000 feet up into the air.
Colombia volcano rumbles back to life
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Nov 01, 2009 |
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Officials in southern Colombia have issued a code orange alert for the newly-active Galeras volcano which they said could erupt in a matter of days or weeks, according to the state-run Geological and Mining ...
Tracking a hot spot
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May 17, 2007 |
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Using a state-of-the-art satellite imagery technique, researchers are able to more precisely predict volcanic activity, bringing them steps closer to understanding where an eruption may occur. A new research study, titled ...
New eruptions at Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano
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Mar 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Alaska's Mount Redoubt is continuing its volcanic explosions, the latest sending an ash cloud 32,000 feet above sea level.
Ash falls on Anchorage as volcano keeps spewing
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Mar 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Alaska's Mount Redoubt continued to erupt Saturday, sending plumes of ash tens of thousands of feet into the air that rained down on at least one Alaska town
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