Most of us take it for granted that modern science can date a piece
of 10,000-year-old pottery or
50,000-year-old cave paintings. But how about dating an 800,000-year-old
grain of sand?
If you're interested in finding out when the last big shake-up hit, or
perhaps what the weather was like
500,000 years ago, come see Dr. Glenn Berger.
Dr. Charles Elachi, the 1995 Nevada Medalist, helped pioneer the radar
imaging technology that
made these breakthroughs possible.
Few things are more majestic than the view from atop the Grand Canyon. To
help preserve this and
other awesome sights, the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1977 gave visibility
protection to all national parks
and wilderness areas.
DRI's first-ever Annual Fund campaign has raised more than $50,000 so far,
thanks to contributors listed.
When they looked at the first satellite images of the earth taken back
in 1966, scientists were puzzled
by the many bright white lines they saw marking ocean clouds. Appearing like
giant scratches on
the natural cloud cover, some of the lines stretched hundreds of miles.
Both . . . according to the latest studies. Until recently, most of
the attention to climate change has
been focused on global warming.
In 1994, DRI's Bwire Ojiambo, a graduate research assistant, was one of
those ten. His application
to study sustainable development in his native Kenya was among more
than 10,000 reviewed by the
Lindbergh Foundation.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Nevada Operations Office awarded DRI
a five-year contract.
Dr. James V. Taranik, Desert Research Institute president, took part
in a White House review of
national laboratories.
Timothy Cashman, president of Cashman Cadillac, Inc., and Roger Peltyn,
vice-president of the
structural engineering firm Martin & Peltyn, Inc., have been named
members of the DRI Research
Foundation Board of Trustees.
Dr. Robert Wharton is DRI's new vice president for research and Dr.
Marilou Jarvis is the institute's
new vice president for finance and administration.
A Cortez Gold Company mining crew unearthed mammoth tusk remnants at a
central Nevada gravel
pit and the company voluntarily halted operations until Desert Research
Institute scientists could
examine the remains and the discovery site.
Dr. Nicholas Lancaster, a researcher who uses sand dunes to study
environmental change, is the third
recipient of the Alessandro Dandini Medal of Science.
Two Desert Research Institute scientists have collaborated to write a
book that will be used on
college campuses throughout the country.
The Desert Research Institute presented the $500 Colin Warden Memorial
Award to Vijay Chekuri,
a University of Nevada, Reno graduate student.
The second Sulo and Aileen Maki Fellowship in hydrologic sciences was
awarded to University of
Nevada, Reno graduate student Joe Leising.
Yucca Mountain, an archaeological site 70 miles northwest of Las Vegas,
has been under the
investigative lens of DRI archaeologists.
It's a long way from Zagreb, Croatia, to Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Roko
Andricevic, a DRI
hydrological engineer and Croatian native, should know.