'Keys to cures' -- an online expedition to the frontier of biomedical research
.... The @Sea website seeks to open a window on the ocean realm for students,educators, scientists, the media, funding agencies, and policy-makers. Onlineexpeditions raise public awareness of threats facing the marine environment,illustrating how the health of our planet is inextricably linked to the state ...Universities to compete in second annual autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) competition
...ct on time critical and dangerousmissions, such as ocean sampling in hazardous or inaccessible locations,undersea warfare and mine countermeasures. "The competition has beendesigned to stimulate and challenge a new generation of engineers to performrealistic missions in the challenging underwater environme...Team of 200 scientists presents new research that reveals full 'tree of life' for plants
...st remained asseaweeds and continued living in the ocean as well, but a few, such as'diatoms,' moved into freshwater. The team has also discovered that all land plants alive today shared a singlecommon ancestor, at least 450 million years ago. "Until now, it was commonlybelieved that within the green pla......pplies are being threatened in some areas as salty ocean water moves upstreaminto normally freshwater areas. "The drought is worsening and is beginning to spread," said USGS ChiefHydrologist Robert M. Hirsch. "With the recent lack of precipitation throughoutthe East, conditions do not look positive for any...Invasion of alien parasite halted; California coast cleared of African worm in abalone
...other continents. This is particularly true in the ocean wherebiologists have considered attempts to get rid of introduced pests to be futile. Until now. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have solvedthe problem of the case of an invading worm from South Africa -- on...Drought brings environmental, ecological changes
...high as 5,000 parts per million - one half that of ocean water. "He had to stop using that water on his fields," Soeder said. "You don't want to salt your corn before you cook it." Meanwhile, on the Hudson River, USGS scientists there have been tracking a different kind of salt problem - a slowly creeping...Discovery sheds new light on species diversity in the ocean
...; all of the microscopic animals that float in the ocean appear to bemost diverse at middle latitudes. This...lanktonic foraminiferalspecies at each spot in the ocean with 90 percent accuracy. The temperatures arederived from satellite observations that measure the o...Biologists predict more marine disease
...es three key points: -- Reports of diseases in the ocean are on the rise, and actual incidentsprobably are,...s an "urgentneed" for interdisciplinary studies of ocean epidemics. "The molecular and computational tools we need to trace these diseases arebeginning to c...Hurricane Floyd signal of a new weather era?
...rmohaline circulation pattern or "conveyor belt"of ocean waters that has implications for El Ninos, La Nina...enhouse effect. When this conveyor belt of ocean waters is most active, Taylor said, ittends to produce warmer water in the Atlantic Ocean and cooler...Scientists gather in Oregon to decide next steps of mid-ocean ridge exploration
More than 130 ocean scientists from the U.S. and overseas will meet in...at and material from the Earth's deep mantle tothe ocean floor and the oceans themselves. "More than 70 percent of the earth's present surface -- alm...USGS releases assessment of nation's biological resources
...ts, of smaller mammals, and of the vastmajority of ocean dwellers. And yet, information presented in the report givesgreat cause for concern about certain populations of these lesser studiedspecies." For example, said Groat, in the Rocky Mountains, western toads now occupy lessthan 20 percent of their pre...Study shows that hydrothermal vents release mercury
Hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor release mercury into the sea, geologistshave found. The finding raises questions about whether this "natural pollution"contaminates fish. Mark Hannington of the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, and hiscolleagues were studying water ...Underwater R2D2 in development
...ng biogeochemical data from prominentinternational ocean research activities like the Bermuda Testbed Mooring in the Atlantic Ocean, or the Arabian Sea Investigation, in cooperationwith other leading oceanographic institutions. But they are clearly smitten withthis small-fry vehicle that sits on a table in...UNC-CH marine scientist says hurricane could be catastrophic for Pamlico Sound
...em since more bay water exchanges with the coastal ocean at itswide entrance near Norfolk. Despite its toll, some good may eventually come fromFloyd, including renewed awareness of the importance of forests and wetlands aspollutant filters and recognition of the environmental risks associated wit...Search and support for the rare white abalone is on; sex must occur with close neighbors
..., ina two-person submersible, began to cruise the ocean floor in search of the raremarine snail. In all the team will make over 50 dives. Researchers are now using research submersibles which had never beenused to search for such animals as difficult to see as abalone. Thesubmersibles, though, pr...On the floor of the sea: USGS biologists search for rare, white abalone
...ting out in a two-person submersible to cruise the ocean floor in searchof the rare marine snail. In all, the team will make more than 50 dives tosearch for the abalone around Santa Catalina, San Clemente and Anacapa Islandsand on Cortez, Tanner and Fansworth Banks, all prime white abalone habitat inthe 19...Significant health benefits of a daily fish meal as part of a weight loss regimen
...enefits of a diet rich in n-3 fatty acids (foundin ocean fish as well as in flaxseed oil) is its protective effect aginstcardiovascular diesease. Mori and colleagues at the University of WesternAustralia have found that overweight patients being treated for hypertensionwere able to realize significant heal...Grandchildren and global warming
...rates, fish and zooplankton. "With an increase in ocean temperature you get a decrease in available nutrients, which changes the whole food chain," he said. Besides changes in the general pattern of species distribution caused by climate change, Gaines mentioned that there is also an increase in extreme...Were the last dinosaurs roasted alive?
...nerated as the asteroid or comet collided with the ocean floor would have travelled round the planet and freed vast quantities of trapped methane. Lightning bursts in the disturbed atmosphere would have ignited the methane-rich air. "The atmosphere itself would have been on fire," Burton and his colleague...By analyzing a core of sediments taken from the ocean floor, scientists have discovered strong evidence ...m surface waters to sink, and intermediate to deep ocean temperatures to rise by approximately 4 to 8 degrees centigrade," according to the Science article. ...