Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...prototype grid will eventually link communities of oceanographers via high-speed wireless and optical networks to observatories in the Northeast Pacific and offshore Southern California. "A number of projects are already underway to deploy ocean observatories and sensors in the Pacific Ocean to permit in situ ocean...URI oceanographers to build laboratory to study subseafloor life
... initially use the field laboratory are geological oceanographers Steven D'Hondt, Arthur Spivack, and John King, biological oceanographer David Smith, and biomedical scientist David C. Rowley. The laboratory will be fully outfitted for microbiological and biogeochemical sampling of diverse subsurface environments...NASA satellites detect 'glow' of plankton in black waters
...o fish kills. Chuanmin Hu and Frank Muller-Karger, oceanographers at the College of Marine Science of University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fla., used fluorescence data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments aboard both NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. MODIS detects th...Ocean dye to help Rutgers scientists trace Hudson River's path miles into the Atlantic
...cean and following it." Chant and a crew of fellow oceanographers plan to follow the flow of the dye on a research vessel for about five days, and possibly 100 or miles more. Throughout the voyage, they will be testing the water to increase their knowledge about where the plume goes and what it contains. A live st...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...t ahead. The service has a variety of users, from oceanographers to competitive yachtsmen, and is the French contribution to the international Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) initiative, intended to create a real time four-dimensional planetary ocean current model. Mercator makes use of near rea...Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
...er issue is persuading the separate communities of oceanographers and marine biologists to collect information in forms that are compatible for analysis and display, added Halpin. "By developing common analysis methods and seamless data sharing techniques we hope to help maximize the utility of existing ocean data ...AGU journal highlights - 6 January 2004
...egions and that the new data will potentiallyallow oceanographers to accurately map surface and subsurfacecurrents worldwide. The researchers note that while the modelrequires further validation, the GRACE mission will likely providea minimum of a ten-fold increase in the accuracy of the Earth'sgravity model. Titl...Ocean life depends on single circulation pattern in Southern Hemisphere
...ajor ocean circulation patterns will change. While oceanographers have identified many ocean circulation patterns, t...logical productivity on Earth. The discovery helps oceanographers settle a longstanding question about what keeps the world's oceans fertile. Most biological activity...Extreme 2003 takes students worldwide to the oceans depth
... have taken advantage of the opportunity to shadow oceanographers and learn what goes on during a research cruise with all the excitement and sometimes disappointment of exploring a place that is so remarkable. We hope that these students never lose that sense of excitement about science, and that they learn that...Nutrient-poor oceans generate their food 'hot spots'
...tes under the effect of the passing waves. The IRD oceanographers and their co-workers investigating these effects (1) consider rather that the Rossby waves act like a rake over the ocean surface, in this way concentrating all floating particles or debris in these places where warmer water accumulates owing to grea...The DFG funds a new research vessel
...teor, the new ship will be available to all German oceanographers and their international partners according to generally accepted rules. In its 1999 white paper "Oceanography in the Next Decade", the DFG's Senate Commission on Oceanography pointed out the need to update the medium-sized German research fleet, whi...Researchers measure effects of flow regulation and diking on salmon habitat loss
...a, and methods used by hydrologists for rivers and oceanographers for estuaries don't work that well. This is also a crucial area for juvenile salmon because many young salmon feed and prepare physiologically and behaviorally in the fresh, shallow waters for a rapid transition to ocean saltwater. "The Columbia wa...Trawlers threaten ocean's biodiversity
...ppearing before they can be identified or studied, oceanographers are warning. The organisms are being pushed to extinction by trawlers targeting undersea volcanic mountains called seamounts. In the past two years, scientists have found that seamounts are home to an astonishing diversity of species, with 40 per ce...New research tools are opening the 'black box' of coastal ecosystems
...urrents and sharp, shallow reefs too hazardous for oceanographers to navigate, coastal ecosystems have traditionally been a mysterious "black box." 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 pee...Scientists crack the black box of coastal ecosystems
...s, shallow water and high wave energy have stymied oceanographers and their large vessels. Now, scientists from PISCO (the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans) which includes Oregon State University, Universities of California at Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz and Stanford University's Hopkin...A drop of ocean water tells a story
...itative manner was very limited. As a result, most oceanographers treat the bacterioplankton as a 'black box.' "However, we know that all bacterial species do not function the same way, so the 'black box' approach grossly oversimplifies microbial contributions," said Carlson. "One of the objectives of this study wa...Asian dust storm causes plankton to bloom in the North Pacific
...on put that assumption to the test. In the 1930s oceanographers first began to suspect that terrestrial dust storms play a key role in phytoplankton growth in the so-called high nutrient, low chlorophyl (HNLC) areas of the ocean, whose concentrations of dissolved iron, an essential micronutrient, are much lower t...Undersea data network planned for Monterey Bay
...h on land, but over the next three years a team of oceanographers will be extending such networks thousands of feet beneath the sea. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded grants to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), as well as the University of Washington, the Jet Propulsion Lab...URI oceanographers study effects of harmful blooms and red tides on Narragansett Bay
...I Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) biological oceanographers Ted Smayda and David Borkman have received a $131,800 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to analyze the dynamics, variability, and patterns of harmful blooms and red tides in Narragansett Bay. The researchers' analysis is based on field o...Grant from Vetlesen Foundation supports URI Graduate School of Oceanography Climate Research
... An award for $53,800 was also given to geological oceanographers Scott Rutherford, John King, Steven D'Hondt, and Beth Laliberte, biological oceanographers Jeremy Collie, Paul Hargraves, and Candace Oviatt, and atmospheric chemist Brian Heikes. The team of...