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Earth & Space

Detail from the ocean model with cold represented in blue and warm in red/orange
The Big Freeze: Charting Climate Change with Global Ocean Circulation Models
Red mineral specimen called crocoite from the Marvin Rausch Mineral Collection
Red Lead: The Marvin Rausch Mineral Collection
UMass Amherst scientists study methane-exhaling microbes that live underwater
Waiting to Exhale
Researchers define limits of microbial life in an undersea volcano
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UMass Amherst Opens Marine Science Station in Gloucester
View of ice berg in many shades of blue that has just broken off a glacier
For the Record: Understanding and Responding to Climate Change
Molecular Cloud: A Star is Born
A tobacco leaf clamped between a Li-cor portable photosynthesis system
Portable Photosynthesis: New Greenhouses for Plant Research
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Tornado Science: New Research Helps Better Predict Severe Weather Events
Close up view of grate on the UMass Amherst wind tunnel
Wind Power: Tunnels, Turbines and Testing
Image of disk galaxies merging
Galactic Merger in the Andromeda Galaxy
UMass Amherst Professors Grant Wilson and Min Yun with detector array.
Galaxies Far, Far Away
Astronomers make surprising find
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Field Biology Course: UMass Students Explore Costa Rican Rain Forest