New insights into Earth's biological record
... at the first three years of daily observations of ocean and land plants from the Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of...how carbon is distributed between the land and the ocean and how carbon distribution has changed over time. The Update will be held on Thursday, March 29, at...First chapter of Earth's "biological record" documented from space
... on the first three years of daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) mission, creating the most comprehensive global biological record ever assembled. Scientists will use the new record of the Earth's surface to study the fate of carbon in ......ecu.edu , 252-328-6360; et al. Most North Carolina ocean beaches are in a serious state of erosion with ove...et al. An extraterrestrial object slammed into the ocean near modern Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago causing widespread devastation and an enormous tsuna...Amphibian mortality linked to climate change
...f El Nino events, which are an unusual warming and ocean circulation pattern of the southern and equatorial Pacific Ocean. In turn, other studies have shown clear connections between El Nino events and reduced precipitation in the Pacific Northwest during the winter, when that region gets most of its rai...Coastal research project at UC Santa Cruz receives major boost in funding
...o the most recent El Nio, which brought changes in ocean currents, water temperatures, and climate conditio... fish larvae are carried more or less passively by ocean currents, studying the movements of water along the coast will also help shed light on patterns of l...Glennda Chui and Richard Stone win AGU journalism awards
... of Jupiter that is believed to hold a vast liquid ocean under an ice covering of less than six miles (10 kilometers) thickness. The full story may be seen online at http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues00/jul00/vostok.html. The AGU science journalism awards are named for David Perlman, scien...Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute develop a new 'kit' to screen mercury in fish
...bile emissions or industrial waste washes into the ocean or groundwater. There, aquatic organisms convert normal mercury ions into methlymercury and release the compound into the water. Fish absorb it through their gills, or through their digestive tracts when they feed, and the poison accumulates in thei...NASA satellite spots unique ocean eddy
...discovered an unusual long-lasting, whirlpool-like ocean eddy that generated a dramatic increase in the mar...on brought up a great amount of nutrients from the ocean depths, enhancing the plankton population on the oceans surface, and providing a banquet for marine ...NSF ships to probe biological enigmas of the frozen southern ocean
...d technology will allow the researchers to map the ocean to a depth of 500 meters (1642 feet). "We can actually see simultaneously up and down," Wiebe said. "This capability is going to give a far deeper reach into the water column. We going to be able see and actually quantitatively assess the abundanc...For whales and seals the ocean is not blue
...mammals appears particularly enigmatic as in clear ocean waters the penetrating light becomes increasingly ...Those species that have ventured out into the open ocean during further evolution might now profit again from blue cones. But the genetic defect probably is ...Researchers prove past cooling trend caused by move from forests to agriculture
...r the Department of Energys Center for Research on ocean carbon sequestration. "This is an example of inadvertent geoengineering -- we changed the reflectivity of the Earth and have probably caused a global cooling in the past. This is now probably being overwhelmed by our greenhouse gas emissions." The r...URI oceanographers discover how planetary waves affect phytoplankton production
.... The scientists theorize that disturbances in the ocean caused by these waves are bringing nutrients to su...onnected oceans. Uz and his collaborators used ocean color data from NASAs SeaWiFS program and concentrated on the role of large planetary, or Rossby, wa...Researchers pinpoint how tubeworm babies are dispersed to colonize new vent sites
...phemeral. These underwater volcanoes appear as the ocean floor spreads, and then they rapidly disappear, sa... exception of hydrothermal vents, most of the deep ocean is only a few degrees above freezing, Marsh explains. Tubeworm larvae mustwithstand these cold tempe......e worms and other exotic life forms found near the ocean floor's boiling hot hydrothermal vents....Krauss book explores universe from oxygen atom's perspective
...it became trapped in limestone that settled in the ocean depths, where the shifting tectonic plates buried it for another 100,000 years. A volcanic eruption spewed it into the atmosphere as part of the carbon dioxide molecule. The cycle continued to repeat itself every 10-100 million years as life forms be...URI professor investigates the muscle behind blue mussels
...hore to seek a rock, metamorphose, and cling. "The ocean is a rich soup of plankton," says Carrington. "Being a filter feeder, the blue mussel sucks in the water and may actually help clean the ocean." Carrington believes that the mussel is everything its cracked up to be. "My research will help us underst...Study finds wind, currents play key role where young fish settle
...combining biological information and insights with ocean physics to further the understanding of variability in fish populations. While this study emphasized the role physical factors play in a fish's life, Jackson said, it is a collaborative effort with biologists Scott and Joan Holt of The University of ......ach other are due to upwelling cold water from the ocean depths,says Crowley. Typically, he says,...MCS employs underwater sensing devices for coastal ocean surface observation....International scientists probe unsolved puzzles of the Earth and beyond at "Earth System Processes"
...essure at deep-sea vents, and consequently changed ocean chemistry. This may develop into another new means of testing the Snowball hypothesis. Matthew T. Hurtgen, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center and Department of Geosciences, takes a look at the first results of a new class of measurements with im...Unusual source of ocean water contamination may rewrite environmental textbooks
...ation, which spreads from the marsh to the shallow ocean water near the beach. Depending on a wetland's siz...ts rapid flow sweeps water from the marsh into the ocean in less than 40 minutes, according to his study. A slower flow rate would likely prevent most contam...