В монографии представлено описание новых методов анализа данных систем геофизического мониторинга. Область исследований относится к проблематике теории обработки прямых экспериментальных данных и связана с мониторингом и прогнозом состояния околоземного пространства. Особое внимание в книге уделено методам анализа данных в периоды солнечных событий, магнитных и ионосферных бурь.

В сборнике представлены материалы участников научно-практической конференции «Прикладные аспекты геологии, геофизики и геоэкологии с использованием современных информационных технологий», организованной на базе Федерального государственного бюджетного образовательного учреждения высшего профессионального образования «Майкопский государственный технологический университет» совместно с Федеральным государственным бюджетным учреждением науки Геофизический центр РАН, Федеральным государственным бюджетным учреждением науки Институт физики атмосферы им. А.М. Обухова РАН, Федеральным государственным бюджетным учреждением науки Институт океанологии им. П.П. Ширшова РАН при участии Управления по охране окружающей среды, природным ресурсам и чрезвычайным ситуациям Республики Адыгея, проведённой в г. Майкопе 11 – 14 мая 2015 г.

The south-west Pacific Ocean is a region of isolated islands and submerged plateaus and ridges (Figure 1). The three main islands of New Zealand (North, South, and Stewart) make up the largest landmass group in the region. Schists, greywackes, and granitoids are exposed in islands on the Challenger Plateau and Chatham Rise and have been sampled in dredges on the Campbell Plateau and Norfolk Ridge, thus demonstrating their continental geological character.

Geology is an Earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Geology can also include the study of the solid features of any terrestrial planet or natural satellite such as Mars or the Moon.

As a geologist and professor I speak and write rather cavalierly about eras and eons. One of the courses I routinely teach is “History of Earth and Life,” a survey of the 4.5-billion-year saga of the entire planet—in a 10-week trimester. But as a human, and more specifically as a daughter, mother, and widow, I struggle like everyone else to look Time honestly in the face. That is, I admit to some time hypocrisy.
Antipathy toward time clouds personal and collective thinking. The now risible “Y2K” crisis that threatened to cripple global computer systems and the world economy at the turn of the millennium was caused by programmers in the 1960s and ’70s who apparently didn’t really think the year 2000 would ever arrive. Over the past decade, Botox treatments and plastic surgery have come to be viewed as healthy boosts to self-esteem rather than what they really are: evidence that we fear and loathe our time-iness. Our natural aversion to death is amplified in a culture that casts Time as an enemy and does everything it can to deny its passage. As Woody Allen said: “Americans believe death is optional.” <...>

Physical Geology: Earth Revealed is a straightforward, easy-t^ro-read introduction to geology both for nonscience ma-f jors and for students contemplating majoring in geology. This book contains the same text and illustrations as the updated version ofthe eighth edition of Physical Geology by Plummer, McGeary, and Carlson. The chapter order has been changed so that internal processes (plate tectonics, earthquakes, etc.) are covered in the first part ofthe book and external process (rivers, glaciers, etc.) are described toward the end of the book.

Earthquakes rank among the most destructive manifestations of the Earth’s dynamics. Can they be predicted? This is often the first question students ask. To answer that right away: no, at present it is not possible to anticipate the date, site and magnitude of future seismic events. However, there does exist a general framework to describe observations related to earthquakes and understand the processes that lead to their occurrence: the seismic cycle.