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Razorback Spirit Squads Announce Tryout Information Meetings for On-Campus Students Razorback Spirit Squads announce tryouts information meeting dates and times for on-campus... MORE Razorbacks Tyler Hill and Matt Munoz Earn Academic Honors FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas cross country runners Tyler Hill and Matt Munoz were named to the 2007... MORE Razorbacks Face Challenge from Kansas in the Midweek The Arkansas baseball team hosts Kansas in a mid-week clash at Baum Stadium on... MORE Razorback Baseball Game With SE Missouri State CANCELLED FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas' baseball game with Southeast Missouri State on Tuesday afternoon... MORE
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Introducing Virtual Hospital: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Your Link to Virtual Hospital's Wealth of Patient Information Quality health information has been the hallmark of Virtual Hospital® and Virtual Children's Hospital® since the early 1990s when www.vh.org was among the first sites on the Internet. For two decades, faculty and staff from the University of Iowa's Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and UI Hospitals and Clinics have written the health care information that millions of Internet users have sought on the pages of Virtual Hospital (www.vh.org) and Virtual Children's Hospital (www.virtualchildrenshospital.org). If you reached this page in search of one of the anatomy textbooks formerly published on Virtual Hospital, you may wish to visit Anatomy Atlases . Patient information on a variety of topics from both of these websites is now available on the pages of UI Health Care.com via the links below. The health content, prepared and reviewed by health professionals, continues to serve the UI Health Care mission of educating patients and families about their health and informing them about the expert services available at UI Hospitals and Clinics for maintaining their health and well being.
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Department of Chemistry

Chemistry plays an integral role in today's scientific endeavors. As science has become increasingly interdisciplinary, fundamental scientific problems focus on the chemical nature of matter. The faculty and staff of the Department of Chemistry provide an environment where students at all levels can explore, discover, and learn chemistry through coursework and research. Graduate School? The Department of Chemistry provides students a great opportunity to continue their education in both traditional and interdisciplinary areas. Our program offers flexible coursework, unique training opportunities, and financial support. Check us out! Analytical Chemistry Programs Ranked among the Best "We're quite pleased that our stellar program in analytical chemistry is again ranked No. 2," said Jeffrey S. Vitter , Frederick Hovde Dean of the College of Science. "We also made very positive gains in computer science, rising two points, and we expect even more gains when our new Lawson Computer Science Building, with its state-of-the-art facilities, opens this year. Overall, six programs in science earned national rankings, which confirms Purdue a true leader in the direction of science programs." Read more at: Recent Developments in Instrumentation Purdue University Research Expertise Database (PURE) Search for Purdue faculty members and their research activities by keyword or by field of study .
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University of California - UC Newsroom | Waves in Southern California, North Pacific More Powerful Over Last 50 Yrs

UC Newsroom Home RSS Hot Topics Archives Publications UC en Español Videos About Waves in Southern California, North Pacific More Powerful Over Last 50 Yrs Email this article 2001-10-15 New research presents evidence that waves in the North Pacific Ocean—particularly in southern California—have increased substantially in size and intensity over the past half century as a result of stronger wind and storm activity. The findings also suggest that the approach direction of winter ocean swells impacting southern California has rotated from more northwesterly directions to more westerly directions over the years. This change reduces the natural sheltering effects of the Channel Islands and Point Conception, resulting in more direct effects on the coast. "Winter storms have been getting stronger and the storm track has been shifting southward—both changes have important effects on the wave environment in southern California," said lead author Nick Graham of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and the Hydrologic Research Center. "This information could be important for studying changes in the coastal environment and for coastal management and planning." The paper, co-authored by Henry Diaz of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Diagnostics Center, appears in a recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Graham said that extreme-wave studies with colleagues since the 1970s repeatedly suggested that waves in the North Pacific have been increasing in size and strength. But observational methods and data necessary to provide rigorous support for such an assumption were limited. That was until the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) developed a "reanalysis" dataset that provided, among other data, a consistent record of sea level pressure and surface wind data. This allowed accurate reconstructions of winter storm activity and ocean waves from 1948 though 1998. Graham took that crucial database and cross-referenced it with in-the-field data from ocean-station vessels, radiosonde reports, data buoys, and observing ships. Together, the results portrayed a "surprisingly regular" and statistically significant pattern of increasingly vigorous storm-driven wave activity across much of the North Pacific since the mid-twentieth century. The backward-looking wave analysis, or "hindcast," shows that the wave climate over many parts of the North Pacific has become rougher since 1948, with extreme wave heights increasing approximately 1 to 2 meters, or roughly 20 to 30 percent.
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The University of Arizona | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

Department of Planetary Sciences Lunar and Planetary Laboratory 1629 E. University Blvd. Tucson AZ 85721-0092 Phone: 520.621.6963 | Fax: 520.621.4933 Copyright © 2008 Arizona Board of Regents
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