American Geophysical Union
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Sep 14, 2026
TerritoryAUDIENCE
I mean, you put that up against Penrith.
TerritoryAUDIENCE
But the one thing I wanted to ask Agu and you as well, Graeme, why weren't there the – You know, when you slip down onto your black back of the leg in the old days.
Eric GrothePANELIST
The hip drop.
TerritoryAUDIENCE
Yeah, why? Now, I'm sure there were blokes that were tackled all like that.
AnnaHOST
This new work argues it's the second for a reason that's almost embarrassingly simple once somebody says it out loud.
AnnaHOST
This is Gaku Nishiyama, a planetary scientist at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin with colleagues in Japan, published in Geophysical Research Letters and released by the American Geophysical Union on Thursday the 10th.
AveryHOST
And the simple reason is?
AnnaHOST
Impact craters bury the cliffs.
AnnaHOST
This new work argues it's the second for a reason that's almost embarrassingly simple once somebody says it out loud.
AnnaHOST
This is Gaku Nishiyama, a planetary scientist at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin with colleagues in Japan, published in Geophysical Research Letters and released by the American Geophysical Union on Thursday the 10th.
AveryHOST
And the simple reason is?
AnnaHOST
Impact craters bury the cliffs.
Shannon DulinHOST
Courtney Sprain is a professor in Florida who is a paleomagnetist.
Shannon DulinHOST
And I saw her poster at AGU this last year.
Shannon DulinHOST
And she was looking at this exact problem, but it wasn't wildfires.
Shannon DulinHOST
It was underground coal seam fires all throughout Utah that leave behind these clinker beds.
Emily GraceyHOST
But a lot of work goes into those and it's important information.
Emily GraceyHOST
So glad to see AGU stepping up to the plate with that one.
Kerrin JerominHOST
Absolutely.
Kerrin JerominHOST
And I think they said that the next report is planned to be released in early December.
Charles RotterGUEST
And somewhere along those lines, I met up with Anthony Watts of What's Up With That.
Charles RotterGUEST
We ended up all meeting when Watts and McIntyre were in town for an AGU meeting, I think circa 2008.
Charles RotterGUEST
Charles, I'm
Ned KomarHOST
sorry, what's AGU? I'm going to interrupt both of you when you talk and
Charles RotterGUEST
jargon.
Charles RotterGUEST
American Geophysical Union.
Tom WhippleHOST
Excellent.
Caroline SteelCORRESPONDENT
But anyway, the news is, is there was a, there was a paper published today by the American Geophysical Union, which has basically found that Mercury is actually shrinking more than we thought.
Caroline SteelCORRESPONDENT
So it looks like it's contracted by 10 to 30% more than we previously estimated over its lifetime.
Caroline SteelCORRESPONDENT
And basically, the reason why scientists got this wrong is because debris from all these impacts that happen and sort of d- damage and change the surface of Mercury have obscured some of the wrinkles, basically kind of like gravel hiding ruts in a road.
David MaidmentGUEST
[laughs] It's...
David MaidmentGUEST
So what happened with that was, so when we were working on HAND, I had a PhD student working on that, Xing Jing, and we had a paper at AGU in Washington.
David MaidmentGUEST
There was the AGU annual meeting.
David MaidmentGUEST
I guess it was still held in Washington at that time, and maybe it was in San Francisco.
David MaidmentGUEST
I don't remember.
David MaidmentGUEST
Anyway, it was at AGU and the next poster was a student of Paul Bates from Bristol.
David MaidmentGUEST
And so Paul was there and I said, "Hey, Paul, why don't you come to Texas? We'll cover your expenses." And that was 2018 or something before COVID.
David MaidmentGUEST
And so he came and gave a lecture about his work with the LIS flood.
speaker_5HOST
Yeah.
speaker_5HOST
Dave Petley, a slope failure researcher who writes for the AGU's EOS magazine, was one of the first to examine the seismic waveform.
speaker_4HOST
And what did he find?
speaker_5HOST
He confirmed the signal lacked the sustained rumbling signature typical of a moraine breaching.
Eva WhiteHOST
The Arctic Report Card has found a new group of supporters.
Eva WhiteHOST
Authors say the American Geophysical Union, which is an international scientific nonprofit, will carry on the climate report with a coalition of other partners.
Eva WhiteHOST
The union is currently fundraising for its long-term publication.
Eva WhiteHOST
The news comes after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pulled its support from the Arctic report in August.
Eva WhiteHOST
NOAA used to coordinate work on the report and provide website development and editing, but last month, the agency said it won't do that anymore, despite work on this year's issue already in progress.
Eva WhiteHOST
Authors announced this week support for this year's issue from several directions.
Eva WhiteHOST
The American Geophysical Union and nonprofit Climate US will provide staff for coordination, website management, and creating visual components.
Eva WhiteHOST
The University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder also have staff who are assisting.
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