Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...Delaney, principal investigator and a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington. "This grant will allow us to make that research interactive by providing an essential architecture for the software, hardware and network services that will enable routine ocean access to researchers, educators, stude...Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
... a University of Washington associate professor of oceanography and lead author of a research article in the Oct. 1 issue of Science . Together, these single-celled organisms generate as much as 40 percent of the 50 billion to 55 billion tons of organic carbon produced each year in the sea, and in the process us...New hypoxic event found off Oregon coast
...ons of the world," said Jack Barth, a professor of oceanography at OSU, "but never on the central Oregon coast." "This system is normally healthy and productive," Lubchenco said. "But a change in ocean circulation appears to be shifting the system closer to a tipping point where the right conditions can kick it ...NSF awards $10 million in grants to ocean sites for long-term ecological research
...e," says Phil Taylor, director of NSF's biological oceanography program. "Stony corals are the foundation upon which tens of thousands of other species rely." Research at the new French Polynesia site will help scientists better understand coral reef processes that drive the functions of this ecosystem; the natu...Model shows long-held constant in ocean nutrient ratio may vary as ecological conditions change
...t what was once considered a universal constant in oceanography could actually vary in the future depending on the ecological scenarios that affect competition for resources among microscopic marine plants, which play a role in global climate. The future of these plants, called phytoplankton, is important becau...Ocean dye to help Rutgers scientists trace Hudson River's path miles into the Atlantic
...conditions. Robert J. Chant, professor of physical oceanography with Rutgers' Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS), said he hopes to release the dye sometime Sunday or Monday in an area a few miles southeast of Sandy Hook. The dye initially will be visible on the ocean as a red patch, perhaps a mile or...New Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health established
...itutions in marine biology, genomics, and physical oceanography and modeling, and encourage new collaborations. "The observations we make could spark a new appreciation of the risks associated with the potential human health consequences of some coastal organisms," Stegeman said. "We expect the insights generate...Envisat fishes up facts behind Chilean giant squid invasion
...on Salmon Chile has co-founded a pilot scheme with oceanography firm Mariscope Chilena, investigating the feasibility of a satellite-based early warning system for harmful phytoplankton blooms explosive growths of sometimes toxic marine algae. "The AATSR results show the appearance of the squid was connected wi...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
..., Salmon Chile, has co-founded a pilot scheme with oceanography firm Mariscope Chilena to investigate the feasibility of an operational satellite early warning service for algae blooms. "Since the end of last year, high concentrations of phytoplankton have been measured from in situ water samples and online dete...Citizens, scientists and policymakers debate ways to restore ocean health at AAAS Town Hall Meeting
...on State University; John R. Delaney, professor of oceanography at the University of Washington; and Usha Varanasi, director, Northwest Fisheries Science Center. AAAS joined with the Seattle Aquarium; the Pacific Science Center, Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team; Communication Partnership for Science and the...AAAS survey: 80 percent of adults say we're hurting oceans
...on State University; John R. Delaney, professor of oceanography at the University of Washington; and Usha Varanasi, director, Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Also participating in the event and a preceding news briefing will be Jeff Koenings, Director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and othe...Goal of ocean 'iron fertilization' said still unproved
...re, said Richard Barber, a professor of biological oceanography at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. According to the hypothesis, extra carbon dioxide absorbed during photosynthesis would be converted into plant tissue that would then sink deep into the ocean, removing the gas from ci...Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
...esearcher Patrick Halpin, "You have an operational oceanography community that's developing a lot of satellite remote sensing data and models." Halpin is a Nicholas School assistant professor of the practice of landscape ecology who focuses on geospatial technologies, such as geographic information systems (GIS) ...Nutrient-poor oceans generate their food 'hot spots'
... the Laboratory of geophysical studies and spatial oceanography (Toulouse), researchers from the MREN (Maison de la recherche en environnement naturel) UMR 8013 CNRS /Universit du Littoral. (2) Equatorial waves are generated by wind variations, atmospheric pressure, etc. They have been found in all latitudes, bu...Don't drink the water: Texas A&M researcher conducting study of polluted Mexican lake
...ers around the world, says Ayal Anis, professor of oceanography at Texas A&M-Galveston. Anis and his research team of students Gaurav Singhal, Keith Dupuis and Newt Scott, studied the Valle de Bravo reservoir located near metropolitan Mexico City. Though the lake provides millions of Mexico City residents with wa...Genomes of tiny microbes yield clues to global climate change
...eam led by Gabrielle Rocap, assistant professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, reports on and compares the DNA sequence of two Prochlorococcus strains. In the other, a team led by Brian Palenik of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, describes the S...Microbes' 'blueprints' promise insights into oceans, more
...or of the National Science Foundation's biological oceanography program, which also funded part of the research. "The work shows there is a rich and fascinating diversity of physiological capacity and adaptation in the sea, and that this diversity is not always revealed by looking in the microscope." CLOSE COLLA...Scientists with Hawaii ocean mixing experiment
...ntimeter scales," said Dan Rudnick, a professor of oceanography at Scripps and lead author of the Science paper. "I don't think this effort is rivaled in terms of measuring detailed dissipation over a topographic feature." HOME scientists, using the Scripps research vessel Roger Revelle, the flagship of the Scrip...UNC researcher awarded top prize for oceanography, fresh water studies
...annual meeting, the award recognizes excellence in oceanography and limnology, the study of fresh water. It is intended to symbolize the quality and innovations toward which the society strives and reminds its members of those goals. Paerl, a UNC faculty member since 1978, was recognized "for contributing to unde...New research tools are opening the 'black box' of coastal ecosystems
...x." But, at least four emerging research tools in oceanography and marine ecology are now opening new doors to shed light on coastal ecosystems, researchers noted in a peer-reviewed article forthcoming in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, the journal of the Ecological Society of America. The peer-review...