Trans-pacific air pollution is worse than was suspected,says new study
...ll change the balance of heating andcooling of the ocean and that will produce changes in theweather. "Second, there are increasing numbers of reports of whatappear to be toxic Asian pollutants in the lakes and streamsof North America. "Finally, and perhaps most important, there is an establishedlink betwe...Arctic temperatures warmest in past four centuries, study says
...ds. The study also included sea ice measurements, ocean structure data, permafrost temperature observations, glacier mass balances, plant growth observations and carbon flux measurements, said Serreze. The new paper was published in the Dutch journal, Climatic Change. Four of the paper's authors, includi...Faster coagulation rates found in natural systems could impact industrial processing
...atment and industrial manufacturing as well as the ocean and other natural water systems." Logan is the f...ge aggregates of bacteria and plankton form in the ocean and sink to the sea floor had long been known even though the prevailing theory could not account f...Satellite imagery pinpoints El Niño's disruption of marine ecosystem
...tailed El Niño's extensive consequences in the ocean environment. New evidence produced by researchers ...ooms of 'nitrogen-fixing' cyanobacteria. Some open ocean cyanobacteria are more abundant in nutrient-depleted, strongly stratified waters because they are ca...Marine genomics researchers discover new ocean protein
... us what these organisms might be doing out in the ocean and how they are making a living out there," said Dr. Robert A. Feldman, Production Sequencing and Collaborations Manager for Amersham Pharmacia Biotech. "The study highlights our ignorance of oceanic microbes and shows how the application of modern......e reflect more light, it also insulated the warmer ocean water from the overlying air. That kept the winter atmosphere near the poles nice and nippy. And somehow that was enough to cancel out global differences between the warming from CO2 and the cooling from the reduced sunlight. Can the results be trus...Snapping shrimp drown out sonar with bubble-popping trick, described in Science
...litary and scientific efforts to "see" through the ocean using sonar. In the 22 September issue of the international journal Science , a team of researchers reveals the surprising trick behind these creatures' noisemaking. Snapping shrimp have one normal claw and one large snapper claw that can be up to ...Ice-breakers drive whales away
...ey could advise icebreaker operators, oil rigs and ocean dredgers on ways to alleviate noise at crucial times....Ocean sponge source of new drug discovery
... to fight off predators. A sponge anchored to the ocean floor can't run away from predators or pathogens, so over time they've evolved home-made poisons they use to fight their enemies. Dr. McCarthy and his team will continue to try to find and identify those chemicals for more and better drugs....November GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY highlights
...impactors and increases in the depth of the Earths ocean and the fraction of Earths surface covered by continental crust through time could explain the observed differences. Los Angeles: The most differentiated basaltic martian meteorite. Alan E. Rubin et al. Los Angeles is a new martian meteorite. It...Prepare now for next El Nino, says UN/NCAR study
...ts from other countries Deploy a network of fixed ocean buoys in the Indian Ocean to collect meteorological information (a similar network already exists in the Pacific) ...Impurities in biominerals reveal key to understanding climate change, will lead to novel materials
...d corals, to the microscopic plankton that live in ocean surface waters, the calcium carbonate skeletons pr...ical processes that help govern climate change and ocean chemistry through the formation of biominerals. The research by geological sciences Ph.D. student ...Ancient quakes leave mark from Kentucky to New York
...rica with a volcanic island chain. "Huge blocks of ocean floor sediment were being thrust upon the eastern edge of North America, forming the rising Taconic mountains." In other aspects of his research, Brett works to understand how large- scale events have impacted life on Earth. Surprisingly, many large ...Global warming: lessons taught by snails and crabs
...biologists have found disturbing signs that higher ocean temperatures have transformed wildlife populations...ant of Monterey Bay 60 years ago, according to the ocean survey conducted at Hopkins in the 1930s. ``But P. cinctipes showed a significant decline in the 199...December Geology and GSA Today highlights
...'t many places in the world where you can watch an ocean basin form, which is why East Africa has captured ...fferent stages in the transition from continent to ocean basin. The authors found that certain fault dimensions could be linked to the total amount of stretc...2000 FALL MEETING: updated press conferences, press registration, and other information
... U61A, U62B) Saturday, December 16 12:15 PM An ocean on Ganymede? First results will be presented from...er the interior of the Amazon rain forest resemble ocean storms more than typical continental storms. Also, Amazon storms differ greatly from African storms....Counting salmon essential measure of recovery efforts
...sea, in freshwater and by hatcheries, to assessing ocean conditions. The cost particularly for agencies that may have funding cycles as short as one or two years and where priorities are often in flux is another concern. The report includes examples of successful uses of validation monitoring, including ...Hawaiian chemist honored for ocean research at Pacifichem 2000
"My father can look at a spot in the ocean and see so much more than others see." So says Jonathan Scheuer of his father, University of Hawaii professor Paul Josef Scheuer, Ph.D., the pioneer chemist credited with helping develop and bring to the forefront the science of marine natural produc...Huge new hydrothermal vent system found on seafloor
...loor, but this major discovery reminds us that the ocean still has much to reveal, "says Margaret Leinen, N...believe, because they rest on one-million-year-old ocean crust formed tens of kilometers beneath the seafloor, and because of their incredible size. Dense m...Scientists track phosphate to better understand global warming
... also is a problem. In old, weathered soils and in ocean ecosystems, plants have enough nitrate (another nu...ating with Paytan to adapt techniques for soils to ocean sediment trap samples to track which compounds degrade first, releasing their phosphorus back into t...