'Short-circuit' found in ocean circulation
Scientists have discovered how ocean circulation is working in the current that flows around Antarctica by tracing the path of helium from underwater volcanoes. The details are published in Nature this week. The team, led by Alberto Naveira Garabato of the National Oceanography Centre...Understanding the global carbon budget -- Woods Hole Research Center expert provides insights
...th warms. The natural processes on land and in the ocean that have removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for the last century may be starting to weaken. The oceans are becoming more acidic, and we see more fires in both tropical and northern forests. If these natural sinks for carbon diminish, global ...Healthy coral reefs hit hard by warmer temperatures
...hers have conclusively linked disease severity and ocean temperature. Close living quarters among coral may make it easy for infection to spread, researchers have found. "With this study, speculation about the impacts of global warming on the spread of infectious diseases among susceptible marine species...Is climate change likely to increase disease in corals?
...show that the interaction between anomalously high ocean temperatures and the extent of coral cover is like... the researchers used a high resolution dataset on ocean surface temperature provided by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and t...Healthy reefs hit hardest by warmer temperatures
...researchers have found. Despite a link to warmer ocean temperatures, coral disease defies predictability,... living coral covering more than 50 percent of the ocean floor, had major outbreaks after warm years. Disease was usually absent on low-cover reefs. Unders...Light sticks may lure turtles to fishing lines
...ast, those lucky enough to last a few years in the ocean could expect a long life and would replenish the population. With the advent of longline fishing, the number of survivors has dwindled. A lot of turtles that beat the odds and would otherwise have lived long lives are now being caught on longlines, L......eir tiny home reef after being swept into the open ocean as babies. Working on pristine coral reefs in a ... fish returned to the home reef a tiny dot in the ocean only 300m across after being carried out to sea as babies. "Just as importantly, 40% of the juven...National Academy of Sciences elects 2 Rutgers professors
...ution of marine phytoplankton, and the role of the ocean in the global biogeochemical cycle. The two scientists join a select group of 19 NAS members from Rutgers. "I am greatly honored to be elected to the Academy, an achievement that recognizes the research performed throughout the years ...Satellites shed light on global warming
...an reflected by ice-covered oceans, increasing the ocean temperature. Average temperatures in the Antarcti...ernal waves that have major effects on large-scale ocean circulation and thus on climate. These very long waves travel slowly across the oceanic basins influ...Ocean's 'twilight zone' may be a key to understanding climate change
...redictive capacity of numerical models that relate ocean carbon to global climate change on different time ...ess the carbon goes all the way down into the deep ocean and is stored there, the oceans will have little impact on climate change." Buesseler was the lead...Volcanic eruptions, ancient global warming linked
... responsible for the global warming and changes in ocean chemistry. The breakthrough came from being able...e with periods of global warming or changes in the ocean chemistry, Duncan pointed out. No conclusive links have been established, however, he added. "Simi...Satellites play vital role in understanding the carbon cycle
...truments to locate sinks and sources of CO2 in the ocean and land. Across land and sea, our world's plant l...ton chlorophyll collectively tints the surrounding ocean waters, providing a means of detecting these tiny organisms from space with dedicated ocean colour s...Envisat Symposium 2007 kicks off in Switzerland
... until now, we have gained an understanding of the ocean and its interaction with the entire Earth system t...rth science will be addressed, such as landslides, ocean colour, sea surface temperature, sea ice, volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, fires, winds and waves and...New deep-sea hydrothermal vents, life form discovered
...essel (R/V) Atlantis, the researchers are studying ocean floor geology of the East Pacific Rise, one of the... helps us understand the processes going on in the ocean crust. Each one gives us a different piece of the puzzle," Von Damm said. More than 500 new specie...AGU Journal Highlights -- April 16, 2007
...ts or glaciers and the oceans, and fluctuations in ocean currents. Ogawa and Heki studied GRACE data follow... Changes in Arctic Ocean bottom pressure, and thus ocean circulation, result from variations in surface height and density of the sea. Comparisons of GRACE d...The global carbon budget -- proper accounting means paying attention to inland waters
...e global carbon budget, inputs were limited to the ocean and the land. Because inland water bodies cover less than 1% of the Earths surface, it was assumed that their contribution was inconsequential. This view was recently challenged in an Ecosystems paper highlighting the findings of a National Cent...Overfishing large sharks impacts entire marine ecosystem, shrinks shellfish supply
...trate that the loss of sharks is cascading through ocean ecosystems and inflicting collateral damage on foo...tions several steps removed. Through our work, the ocean is not so unfathomable, and we know better now why sharks matter." ...Overfishing great sharks wiped out North Carolina bay scallop fishery
...trate that the loss of sharks is cascading through ocean ecosystems and inflicting collateral damage on foo...tions several steps removed. Through our work, the ocean is not so unfathomable, and we know better now why sharks matter." Solutions to the problem, Baum ...MIT's ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests
...AMBRIDGE, Mass.--Scientists at MIT have created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of div...their real-world counterparts. This model of the ocean is the first to reflect the vast diversity of the invisible forests living in our oceans-tiny, singl......This large temperature difference between land and ocean surface resulted in drier conditions compared to t...re record. A comparison of both records shows that ocean surface and land temperatures behaved differently during the past 25,000 years. During the last ice ...