We are pleased to announce the expansion of SSRN's Physical Sciences Discipline with the addition of Earth Science Research Network (EarthSciRN) and Space & Planetary Science Research Network (PlanetSciRN).
 
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The Earth Science Research Network (EarthSciRN) focuses on 12 major areas of scholarship. SSRN's newest network provides a worldwide online community for Earth science scholars and for the sharing of ideas across a broad spectrum of early-stage research.
 
The following EarthSciRN areas are available and subscriptions will be free during the start-up phase.

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

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Description:This area includes content on any aspects of atmospheric properties and phenomena including weather, global and climate change, atmospheric circulation and dynamics, cloud and aerosol processes, atmospheric pollution and air quality, and ionization in the upper atmosphere. Observational, theoretical, computational, and experimental studies are welcome.


EARTH SCIENCE EDUCATOR: COURSES, CASES, & TEACHING

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Description:This area includes content that supports high quality student learning in Earth science and related disciplines, and is designed for the sharing of teaching materials. This includes casebooks, reviews of casebooks, lecture notes, class summaries, outlines, supplementary materials (for your own or someone else's book), syllabi, problem sets, PowerPoint presentations, videos, and other teaching materials.


EARTH SCIENCE NEGATIVE RESULTS

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Description:This area includes content in which negative results were found. Negative results are instances in which the expected outcome of the research was not borne out by the results. The negative results area includes papers that have controversial or provocative results that challenge established theories as well as papers that replicate or support findings published elsewhere.


EARTH-SURFACE PROCESSES

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Description:This area includes content on processes operating at the Earth's surface including gravity-driven processes, interactions between the surface and the atmosphere, the evolution of landforms, soil development, sedimentation, and advances in measurement techniques and computational methods.


ENERGY & ECONOMIC GEOLOGY

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Description:This area includes content on fossil fuel formation, migration, detection, and extraction; geothermal resource development; and the formation and exploitation of ores and other industrial minerals. This can include studies investigating the geological aspects as well as engineering aspects of mining and fossil fuel extraction.


ENGINEERING & ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY

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Description:This area includes content on applied Earth sciences with relevance to engineering projects and works. These could include investigations and case studies in applied geomorphology, geophysics, structural geology, environmental geology, hydrogeology, land use planning, natural hazards, soil and rock mechanics, and geotechnical engineering.


GEOCHEMISTRY & PETROLOGY

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Description:This area includes content on any aspect of geochemistry, mineralogy, and petrology including low- and high-temperature systems and processes related to any part of the rock cycle. Studies addressing biological interactions in geochemical systems and applications of geochronological and isotope analysis are also welcome.


GEOPHYSICS

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Description:This area includes content describing research in the physics of the solid Earth to explore its composition, structure, and processes from the surface to the deepest interior of the Earth. Such studies can include seismic wave generation and propagation; the Earth's magnetic, gravity, and electrical fields; the Earth's thermal structure; geophysical studies of active deformation; and theoretical and experimental studies of the properties and behavior of Earth materials.


HYDROLOGY

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Description:This area includes content on the occurrence, distribution, movement, and properties of the waters of the Earth and their relationship with the environment within each phase of the hydrologic cycle, focusing on freshwater at or beneath the Earth's surface. These can include studies of water quality and water resource management, watershed modelling over a range of scales, and development of instrumentation and methodology.


OCEAN SCIENCES

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Description:This area includes content on all aspects of the global oceans and their interactions with the Earth and the atmosphere including biological, chemical, and physical processes, how the oceans have changed over time, and the geology of the seafloor and oceanic lithosphere.


PALEONTOLOGY

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Description:This area includes content from all branches of paleontology spanning the entire history of life on Earth. We welcome studies that interrogate fossils to learn about the ecologies of the past, about evolutionary processes, and about our place as humans in the world.


STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY & TECTONICS

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Description:This area includes content on a wide range of structural geology and tectonic processes. All aspects of lithospheric deformation from the microscale to the regional scale may be included along with processes related to past, present, and future tectonic plate boundaries and plate motions.

 
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The Space & Planetary Science Research Network (PlanetSciRN) focuses on 10 major areas of scholarship. SSRN's newest network provides a worldwide online community for space & planetary scholars and for the sharing of ideas across a broad spectrum of early-stage research.
 
The following PlanetSciRN areas are available and subscriptions will be free during the start-up phase.

ASTROBIOLOGY

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Description:This area includes content on the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. This can include studies addressing how life beyond Earth can be detected as well as Earth analogs, the origin and future of life on Earth, and experimental and numerical simulations of exotic biosystems.


ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

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Description:This area includes content on aspects of modern astronomy and astrophysics including theoretical, observational, and computational astronomy. Such studies can include original research on instrumentation, data capture and surveys, analysis and modelling techniques as well as interpretation of observations relating to celestial objects and phenomena originating outside the Earth's atmosphere.


COSMOLOGY & LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE

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Description:This area includes content on the origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe and the large-scale properties of the universe as a whole. This can encompass any observational, theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies in the area of modern cosmology including investigations and comparisons of the competing theories describing the formation and early evolution of the universe, nucleosynthesis and nuclear astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, dark energy and dark matter, gravitational lensing, general relativity, and structure formation and evolution.


EXOPLANETS

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Description:This area includes content on the search for planets around other stars, the characterization of their properties, and the identification of planets that could harbor life including theoretical, observation-based, and numerical modelling and simulation studies.


HELIOSPHERIC, MAGNETOSPHERIC, & IONOSPHERIC PHYSICS

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Description:This area includes content on advancements in instrumentation, observations, and numerical modelling of the origin and evolution of the solar wind and planetary magnetospheres/ionospheres and their interactions, also including low-energy cosmic rays and the interactions between the Sun's heliosphere and the local interstellar medium.


METEORITICS & COSMOCHEMISTRY

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Description:This area includes content on understanding the composition and dynamics of meteorites and other extraterrestrial material including basic experimental and theoretical studies investigating the composition and origin of matter in the universe.


PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES & AERONOMY

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Description:This area includes content on investigating the composition, movement, and thermal balance of planetary atmospheres including the upper portions of Earth's atmosphere.


PLANETARY GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS

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Description:This area includes content on the composition, structure, and dynamics of planetary bodies including terrestrial and gaseous planets, dwarf planets as well as moons and rings.


SPACE & PLANETARY SCIENCE EDUCATOR: COURSES, CASES, & TEACHING

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Description:This area includes content that supports high quality student learning in space & planetary science and related disciplines, and is designed for the sharing of teaching materials. This includes casebooks, reviews of casebooks, lecture notes, class summaries, outlines, supplementary materials (for your own or someone else's book), syllabi, problem sets, PowerPoint presentations, videos, and other teaching materials.


SPACE & PLANETARY SCIENCE NEGATIVE RESULTS

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Description:This area includes content in which negative results were found. Negative results are instances in which the expected outcome of the research was not borne out by the results. The negative results area includes papers that have controversial or provocative results that challenge established theories as well as papers that replicate or support findings published elsewhere.




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