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2012 Arizona News Releases

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1. 

   Lidar Yields New Insights into Desert Fire Ecologies

   
   
   Released: 11/28/2012 12:00:00 PM
   

2. Project to Support Future Global Food Security Enhanced by Major NASA Grant

   
   
   Released: 11/14/2012 3:23:44 PM
   
3. 

   Volcanism in the American Southwest

   
   
   Released: 10/19/2012 1:30:00 PM
   
4. 

   Modeling Predicts Excessive Nitrate and Arsenic in Southwestern U.S. Aquifers

   
   
   Released: 9/27/2012 4:00:00 PM
   

5. Stephen Jackson to Lead Southwest Climate Science Center

   
   
   Released: 8/27/2012 11:00:00 AM
   
6. 

   President Obama Honors Justin Hagerty for Helping to Explain the Formation and Evolution of the Moon

   
   
   Released: 7/23/2012 3:15:58 PM
   
7. 

   Responding to Whitewater-Baldy Fire, USGS Installs Early Flood Warning Network

   
   
   Released: 7/5/2012 2:05:18 PM
   
8. 

   Exploring Extraterrestrial Sand Dunes in Arizona

   
   
   Released: 6/12/2012 5:10:24 PM
   
9. 

   Laszlo Kestay Named Director of Astrogeology Science Center

   
   
   Released: 5/21/2012 9:20:34 AM
   

10. A Big Day for Science: Citizens Have Contributed One Million Observations to Top Nature Database

    
    
    Released: 5/3/2012 9:00:00 AM
    

11. First Geologic Map of Jupiter's Moon Io Details an Otherworldly Volcanic Surface

    
    
    Released: 3/19/2012 1:30:00 PM
    
12. 

    USGS Study Informs Response to Future Schultz Fire Flooding

    
    
    Released: 2/21/2012 10:00:00 AM
    
13. 

    Hotter and Drier Climate Likely to Alter Abundance of Sonoran Desert Plants

    
    
    Released: 2/15/2012 12:00:00 PM
    

14. Historic Partnership Advancing Science on the Grand Canyon's North Rim

    
    
    Released: 2/8/2012 10:00:00 AM
    

15. Dramatic Links Found Between Climate Change, Elk, Plants, and Birds

    
    
    Released: 1/9/2012 11:30:00 AM