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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:29:29 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Marine Scientists Warn of "Moderately Large" Potential for Spring, Summer Red Tide Outbreak in Gulf of Maine
The potential for an outbreak of the phenomenon called "red tide" is expected to be moderately large this spring and summer in the Gulf of Maine, according to researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and North Carolina State University (NCSU).
The finding is based in part on a regional seafloor survey of quantities of Alexandrium fundyense--the microscopic algae notorious for producing a toxin that accumulates in clams, mussels and other ...
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:35:14 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Lost Research Station Staffer Rescued in Greenland
Lost Research Station Staffer Rescued in Greenland
Officials with the National Science Foundation formally expressed their gratitude to the multi-nation team that rescued a staff member who had been missing from Wednesday evening to Saturday morning from the foundation's research station at Summit, Greenland.
The missing man was identified as a 38-year-old U.S. citizen who works as a heavy equipment operator at the station for a sub-contractor of CH2M HILL, an engineering, construction and operations company that provides logistical ...
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:36:05 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Students Least Informed about Environmental Science Are Most Optimistic
Students Least Informed about Environmental Science Are Most Optimistic
Will problems associated with environmental issues improve in the next two decades? According to an analysis of student performance on PISA 2006--an international assessment of 15-year-olds--students who are the best informed about environmental science and the geosciences are also the most realistic about the environmental challenges facing the world in the next 20 years. Meanwhile, students who are least informed in these areas are the most wildly optimistic that things will ...
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