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Winds of change: using dust in Antarctic ice to understand past climates

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Bess is an Assistant Professor of Geology at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, in the US. DR BESS KOFFMAN Assistant Professor of Geology Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA. Paleoclimate Science, Geology. ABOUT GEOLOGY. PALAEOCLIMATE – the climate of the Earth or a certain region at a past point in geologic time.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Instead of just being the backdrop from which data are collected, strengthening or capitalising on the relationships between people and the places where they might engage in citizen science can play a central role in increasing interest in public research participation. How exactly can programmes do this?

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Practical activities to help geoscience students develop the skills they need to succeed

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Students who dream of studying glaciers,” says Lisa, “or exploring the deep sea or the moons of Saturn, might be discouraged with schools that don’t have instructors who can teach glacial geology, physical oceanography or planetary sciences.” These kinds of specialties are more common in schools that have a greater focus on research.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

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There’s a public Prompt Repository that so far has several hundred curated prompts. The function Map takes a function f and “maps it” over a list: Comap does the “mathematically co-” version of this, taking a list of functions and “comapping” them onto a single argument: Why is this useful? is PositionSmallest. is PositionSmallest.

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