Profile of Michael E. Moseley.
@article{Nuzzo2006ProfileOM, title={Profile of Michael E. Moseley.}, author={Regina L. Nuzzo}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, year={2006}, volume={103 13}, pages={ 4805-7 } }
Archaeologist Michael E. Moseley not only studies ancient natural disasters, but he also cheerfully lives through modern ones, too. In 1970, while working on an excavation site in northern Peru, a 7.8-Richter magnitude earthquake hit, with the epicenter just miles away. After the aftershocks subsided, Moseley shoveled out his collapsed excavation, resumed work, and lived without electricity for 8 months. Two years later, he experienced devastating Peruvian El Nino floods, which he saw again in…
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- 2020
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