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New England Poultry Producers May See Effects from Sandy
October 30, 2012 Instead of an early snowfall this time of year, farmers along the eastern seaboard are dealing with flood waters and wind damage from Superstorm Sandy, which is expected to affect everything from ... > full story -
NASA Examines Hurricane Sandy as It Affects the Eastern U.S.
October 29, 2012 On Monday, Oct. 29, Hurricane Sandy was ravaging the Mid-Atlantic with heavy rains and tropical storm force winds as it closed in for landfall. Earlier, NASA's CloudSat satellite passed over ... > full story -
Mandatory Flu Vaccine for Health Care Workers to Protect Patients
October 29, 2012 All health care workers in health care institutions should be vaccinated with the annual influenza vaccine to protect patients, argues an ... > full story -
Hopping Robots Could Conserve Energy
October 29, 2012 A new study shows that jumping can be more complicated than it might seem. In research that could extend the range of future rescue and exploration robots, scientists have found that hopping robots ... > full story -
NASA Satellites See Sandy Expand as Storm Intensifies
October 28, 2012 Hurricane Sandy is a Category 1 hurricane on Oct. 28, according to the National Hurricane Center. Sandy has drawn energy from a cold front to become a huge storm covering a large area of the eastern ... > full story -
NASA's TRMM Satellite Analyzes Hurricane Sandy in 3-D
October 29, 2012 NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite, can measure rainfall rates and cloud heights in tropical cyclones, and was used to create an image to look into Hurricane Sandy on Oct. ... > full story -
River Floods Predicted Using New Technology
October 29, 2012 Scientists are now using high-tech solutions to provide real-time forecast of the dangers of river floods caused by climate change and human activities to help avoid ... > full story -
Sandy to Erode Many Atlantic Beaches
October 27, 2012 Nearly three quarters of the coast along the Delmarva Peninsula is very likely to experience beach and dune erosion as Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, while overwash is expected along nearly half of ... > full story -
USGS Storm-Surge Sensors Deployed Ahead of Tropical Storm Sandy
October 27, 2012 Storm response crews from the U.S. Geological Survey are installing more than 150 storm-tide sensors at key locations along the Atlantic Coast -- from the Chesapeake Bay to Massachusetts -- in ... > full story -
NASA Satellites See Sandy Become a Hurricane Again and Strong Winds Expand
October 27, 2012 Sandy weakened to a Tropical Storm and strengthened back into a hurricane early on Saturday (Oct. 27), and its pressure was dropping, meaning that the storm is intensifying as it becomes an ... > full story
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