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Study Offers Economical Solutions for Maintaining Critical Delta Environments

By Guest PostDecember 20, 2013Environment1954, age of humans, Anthropocene, black sea, bulgaria, Chernobyl, danube river delta, deforestation, delta environments, economical solutions, floodplain, frequency, Germany, historic data, hungary, iron gates dams, liviu giosan, main european waterway, nuclear bomb testing, nuclear reactor, radiocarbon analysis, radioisotope cesium 137, rising sea level, romania, sandy barriers, sea level, warming climate, wave dominated deltas, whoi

Millions of people across the world live or depend on deltas for their livelihoods.

Formed at the lowest part of a river where its water flow slows and spreads into the sea, deltas are sediment-rich, biodiverse areas, a valuable source of seafood, fertile ground for agriculture, and host to ports important for transportation.

At least half of the deltas around the world are so-called “wave dominated deltas” – open to the sea and under the impact of wave erosion. And many more deltas will come under wave dominance as dammed rivers carry less and less sediment. In a warming climate, sea levels are rising and storms are increasing in frequency and severity, posing threats to these deltas and the people and habitats dependent on them. (more…)

From military to MBA

By Guest PostSeptember 23, 2013Educationafghanistan, arabian peninsula, black sea, charles altman, d day planning, ernie lietzan, gi bill, heidi sandell, infantry, Iraq, level of accuracy, marine captain, marine corps base, marine infantry, mba program, middle east, military service, military to mba, national guard, operation new dawn, persian gulf, philip miller, quantico, robert paulus, university of minnesota, virginia

How the Carlson School supports veterans going for an MBA

Looking to apply to an MBA program, Heidi Sandell faced a common problem among veterans.

“I had a hard time translating my skills into something the business world could use and appreciate,” says Sandell, who served four years in the U.S. Navy. (more…)

The Black Sea is a Goldmine of Ancient Genetic Data

By Guest PostMay 28, 2013Environmentblack sea, brackish black sea, dna sequencing, genetic data, genetic makeup, plankton paleome, pyrosequencing, sediment record

New Study Reconstructs the Past Ocean ‘Paleome’

When Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) marine paleoecologist Marco Coolen was mining through vast amounts of genetic data from the Black Sea sediment record, he was amazed about the variety of past plankton species that left behind their genetic makeup (i.e., the plankton paleome). (more…)

Human Impact Felt on Black Sea Long Before Industrial Era

By Guest PostSeptember 5, 2012Environmentblack sea, black sea basin, black sea salinity, black sea shelf, delta growth, impact of humans, industrial era

When WHOI geologist Liviu Giosan first reconstructed the history of how the Danube River built its delta, he was presented with a puzzle.

In the delta’s early stages of development, the river deposited its sediment within a protected bay. As the delta expanded onto the Black Sea shelf in the late Holocene and was exposed to greater waves and currents, rather than seeing the decline in sediment storage that he expected, Giosan found the opposite. The delta continued to grow. In fact, it has tripled its storage rate. (more…)

Trojan Horse for Russian Defense Industry

By PravdaJanuary 4, 2011Weaponsamerican, antiaircraft guns, baghdad, black sea, cruising endurance, defense deals, drones, f 16 fighters, france, french weaponry, georgia, innovative technologies, Israel, konstantin sivkov, latin america, military hardware, mistral, mistral helicopter carriers, russia, russian navy, state of the art combat ships, trojan horse, united states, Venezuela, vessel

Russia has finally decided to purchase two Mistral helicopter carriers from France in the total amount of 1.37 billion euros. It is not the first time when Russia concludes defense deals with France. However, the Mistral deal is the largest one in Russia’s recent history when Russia purchased military hardware from a foreign state. (more…)

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Study Offers Economical Solutions for Maintaining Critical Delta Environments

From military to MBA

The Black Sea is a Goldmine of Ancient Genetic Data

Human Impact Felt on Black Sea Long Before Industrial Era

Trojan Horse for Russian Defense Industry