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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 12.4.24

PA Environment Daily

Sayre High School Students Together at Cobbs Creek To Learn Environmental Science, Engineering In Philadelphia -- Erie Times: Venango Twp. 17 Hearing On Orchard BJK Company Warehouse Chapter 105 Permit In Monroe County -- Penn Today: New Program Brings Penn And William L.

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Restoring a Local Boy’s Legacy, One Fish at a Time 

Academy of Natural Sciences

In 2008, unaware of Fowlers fish, Benine and Lopes described Hyphessobrycon otrynus as a new species of tetra from Venezuela While visiting the Academy collection, lead author Flvio Lima noticed a resemblance between the small tetras described by Fowler and the two Brazilians.

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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture

Circle of Blue

Pavelsky, a professor in the department of earth, marine, and environmental sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is giddy about the mission and the knowledge it will generate. Hossain joined the team in 2008. The drying of the American West, for instance, has revealed the precariousness of reservoirs. “But

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Dr Krithi K. Karanth – Finding your Passion and Having an Impact #WomeninScience

Frontiers

I graduated from Duke University in the US in 2008 with my PhD and have been an Associate Professor there since then as adjunct faculty. I ended up going to the US for my undergrad which was broadly in Environmental Science, but coming back and doing a research project in India for my Masters at Yale really got me hooked.

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Brood X Cicadas, Pt 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Brood XIV – next emergence In 2025 (last was 2008). Text, images and video by Jon Gelhaus, PhD, Curator of Entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and professor, Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Brood II – next emergence in 2030 (last in 2013). Brood X Cicadas, Pt 2.

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and Born in Johannesburg, Mendel began photographing major floods in 2007 when one in England and another in India occurred within two weeks of each other.

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Top tips for super sandcastles: explore the weird world of sand

Physics World

Reprinted by permission from Springer Nature: Nature Materials 7 189 © 2008). The remarkable insensitivity of the mechanical properties [of the pile of sand] to the liquid content is due to the particular organization of the liquid in the pile into open structures,” the researchers note in their 2008 paper ( Nature Materials 7 189 ).

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