Stanford Earth Reunion 2016
This year’s homecoming events included the inauguration of Stanford’s 11th president.
The 2016 Stanford Earth Reunion included Classes without Quizzes taught by Stanford Earth professors Noah Diffenbaugh (Is THIS climate change?) and Gail Mahood (Finding oil to volcanic hazards in Saudi Arabia), a Stanford Educational Farm Tour, an alumni reception on Mitchell Terrace, the homecoming football game, and most especially, the inauguration of Stanford’s 11th president Marc Tessier-Lavigne.
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X-rays reveal an extinct mouse was dressed in brown to reddish fur on its back and sides and had a tiny white tummy.
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High-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S. Researchers quantified the value of managed low-intensity burning to dramatically reduce the risk of such fires for years at a time.
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The most devastating tornadoes are often preceded by a cloudy plume of ice and water vapor billowing above a severe thunderstorm. New research reveals the mechanism for these plumes could be tied to “hydraulic jumps” – a phenomenon Leonardo Da Vinci observed more than 500 years ago.
