Florida Tech earns $50,000 grant to create coral database
...o set up a Coral Database (CoralData) node for the southeast region of the U.S. The team hopes to extend this database to include a national database and ultimately an international coral database. CoralData aims to increase understanding of the distribution and abundance of corals and could eve...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
... on fish and squid in a shallow sea in present-day southeast China more than 230 million years ago. The creature's relatively stiff, 1.7-meter-long neck (approximately five and a half feet) was almost twice as long as its trunk which measured less than one meter in length. These findings appear as a "Brevia" a...What actually influences air pollution over the Indian Ocean?
...here, originating from Africa in the west and from southeast Asia (Indonesia and other countries) in the east (Fig. 1b). "Our results suggest that the central Indian Ocean is not always as pristine as found during the winter monsoon", says Mark Lawrence, the leader of the junior research group. "It is especial...Revealing bizarre deep-sea secrets
... the group will travel to a bizarre site 150 miles southeast of New Orleans known as the Brine Pool. There, salt deposits in the seafloor dissolve to create water so dense that it forms a shallow lake 2,100 feet below the ocean's surface. The expedition's main mission will be to discover new animals and new b...Climate change could doom Alaska's tundra
...me and temperate conifer forest much like those of southeast Alaska, and cover huge areas of Alaska. The only large area of remaining tundra in Alaska 100 years from now will be on its north coast. Because of increases in precipitation and despite an increase in statewide biomass, forest fires should b...Archaeologists announce discoveries at the ancient Maya site of Waka' in northern Guatemala
...tial activity. The large ceremonial complex in the southeast portion of the site center is one such focus, where evidence of extensive termination ritual may provide clues to the events at the end of the site's life. At this location, SMU graduate student Olivia Farr found that dozens of complete ceramic vesse...Plankton may influence climate change says UCSB scientist
...search in the Sargasso Sea, approximately 50 miles southeast of the island of Bermuda. Siegel's research group has been making observations at this location since 1992. Phytoplankton are tiny, single-celled floating plants. They inhabit the upper layers of any natural body of water where there is enough light ...Kiratisin wins 2004 Dade MicroScan Young Investigator Award
...sing melioidosis, an infectious disease endemic to southeast Asia and northern Australia. His work on this pathogen and the application of his gene sequence analysis technique will be of prime importance to clinical microbiology laboratories seeking to identify the disease quickly and accurately. Kiratis...Ocean dye to help Rutgers scientists trace Hudson River's path miles into the Atlantic
...e 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 more long, Chant said. "It will then disperse and gradually become invisible to the human eye, but remain detectable by our sensors. Essentially we're tag...New IU Bloomington life sciences building gets a name
... disrupt the wooded areas near Ballantine Hall and southeast of the Chemistry Building. Two additional science buildings are planned for sites just north of 10th Street, near the Geological Sciences building....Freeing Nemo: Aquarium owners releasing non-native fish could endanger marine ecosystems
... free from home aquariums in ocean waters off the southeast coast of Florida. This is an unprecedented number of non-native marine fish in a concentrated geographic area, says Brice Semmens, a UW doctoral student in biology and lead author of a paper published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. ...Dirty air from Asia can push U.S. air pollution to unhealthy levels
...d June. On June 6, Enumclaw, Wash., about 35 miles southeast of Seattle, recorded an eight-hour average of 96 parts per billion, well beyond the EPA limit of 80 parts per billion. The data, which has not yet been published, indicates that the plume from the Siberian fires contributed about 15 parts per billion...World's most alkaline life forms found near Chicago
...ng in the slag dumps of the Lake Calumet region of southeast Chicago where the water can reach extraordinary al...bic feet of contaminated industrial fill dumped in southeast Illinois and northeast Indiana, about half of which is thought to be slag, Roadcap noted. The slag d...Prescribed burns can threaten pine Savannah amphibians
While longleaf pine savannahs in the southeast U.S. depend on periodic fires, today's prescribed ...t whether prescribed burning affects amphibians in southeast U.S. pine savannahs, Schurbon and Fauth determined the diversity and abundance of 25 amphibian speci...Earthworm invasion will change forests
...ch of the western United States and Canada and the southeast quadrant of the United States. But it remains to be seen whether those native earthworms will resist invasion from the European species, Frelich said. The European earthworms include nightcrawlers and other common earthworms found in the northern and...Exploring the sights and sounds of a deepwater coral marine protected area off Florida
...for efforts underway to create new MPAs throughout southeast U.S. waters and the Gulf of Mexico. The team will ...lly important source of fish larvae for the entire southeast U.S. continental shelf. Shrimp, the most valuable fishery species for the southeast U.S., are also ...Science Picks--Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (April 2003)
...thquake hazards grant from USGS, drilled boreholes southeast of LA to determine the earthquake history of the Puente Hills fault using a technique called paleoseismology that looks at geologic evidence to tell the story of past earthquakes. (Kathleen Gohn, 703-648-4242, kgohn@usgs.gov ) Revealing Bulges in M...Best chance to protect giant pandas
...nda's range has shrunk from the lowland forests of southeast China, northern Vietnam and northern Myanmar to six mountain ranges along China's Tibetan Plateau, where only 24 isolated populations survive today. Now, however, there is a window of opportunity to protect more of the panda's habitat, thanks to two ...Study: Prenatal screening in Haiti region cut syphilis by 75 percent
...d diseases on the large island, which lies off the southeast coast of Africa....SRS research highlights from the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Symposium
... Florida and west to the eastern part of Texas and southeast Oklahoma. Red-cockaded woodpeckers are uniquely adapted to the fire-maintained southern pine ecosystem and require relatively large, living pine trees for nesting. The fourth Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Symposium held last week in Savannah, GA, brought t...