Are we killing the world's oceans?
How will global warming affect ocean circulation and sea levels in the centuries to com...he US will speak on such issues as climate change, ocean acidification and coral reefs, the increase in ocean dead zones, scientific and social dynamics duri...World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars
... given the sky a reddish cast, and a greenish-blue ocean of iron-rich water would have lapped onto beaches, he said. While scientists have been concerned that the limited sample of Earth's oldest known rocks from West Greenland provided a biased view of early Earth, the Hudson Bay discovery essentially...'Good vibrations' from deep-sea smokers may keep fish out of hot water
... up heat and minerals and then vents back into the ocean depths. The hottest and most vigorous of the vents are black smokers, so called because when the fluids they emit hit the icy cold seawater, minerals in the fluids precipitate out and it looks just like dark, billowing smoke. Because of a paper publi...Sea level on the rise -- in real and virtual worlds
...ea levels have risen largely due to warming of the ocean and the consequent thermal expansion and melting of non-polar glaciers and ice caps and the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland. One of the authors of the review, Dr John Church of the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems CRC and CSIRO, noted that a...Satellite data vital to UN climate findings
...er offers valuable information on the state of the ocean by providing measurements of the height of the ocean surface. Data acquired by radar altimeters aboard Envisat and ERS show sea levels have been rising b...Investigating the invisible life in our environment
...ities present in four very different environments: ocean surface, acidic underground mine water, whale bone...depending on their habitat. While organisms at the ocean surface evolve fairly rapidly, soil microbes only change slowly throughout evolution, perhaps partly...Genes behind animal growth discovered
...ields has to be followed by a "Blue Revolution" in ocean farming, according to marine biologists at the Uni...nable domestication of oysters and other promising ocean species, mostly shellfish. Oysters already are the number one farmed aquatic species worldwide. Aq...Duke geologist's book assails unrealistic mathematical models
...olina University. An expert in the geology of deep ocean plains, he has also written numerous books on how ocean forces and human development jointly affect beaches. ...Williams College biologist explores photosynthetic apparatus
... evolved in response to selection pressures in the ocean environment," she explained. "The Prochlorococcus... ability to accurately model primary production in ocean ecosystems, as well as to a better understanding of the mechanics and evolution of photosynthesis. ...Baby fish 'smell their way home'
...oral fish species are swept off their home reef by ocean currents within days of hatching. Ordinarily you'd expect them to be thoroughly mixed up and this would mean the population of one reef would be pretty much the same, genetically, as another," he says. "But that is not the case. There are major g...Academy honors 18 for major contributions to science
.... LEDWELL, senior scientist, department of applied ocean physics and engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass., "for innovative and insightful tracer experiments using sulfur hexafluoride to understand vertical diffusivity and turbulent mixing in the open ocean." The medal was e...Scientists discover new life forms in the Arctic Ocean
...ry exciting discovery," comments Dr. Lovejoy. "The ocean covers 70% of planet earth and we are only now coming to appreciate its rich and complex biodiversity." The other members of the team responsible for this discovery are Fabrice Not, Khadidja Romari, and Daniel Vaulot from Universit Pierre et Marie C...New findings blow a decade of assumptions out of the water
...tion or denitrification if climate change altered ocean temperatures and the rates of the two processes, f...the literature as to whether fixed nitrogen in the ocean remains constant with time or fluctuates widely," says Jorge Sarmiento, professor of geosciences at ...ESA launches new project to protect biodiversity
...l corridor change detection maps; coral reef maps; ocean water quality monitoring services; and mangrove maps. The projects will also investigate wildlife migration processes from the Galapagos Islands to Cocos Island. Finally, the project will provide a global map of dry lands based on existing global dat......ef spend the early days of their lives swept up in ocean currents that disperse them far from their places ...ws that some fish larvae can discriminate odors in ocean currents and use scent to return to the reefs where they were born. The olfactory imprinting of nata...'Red tide toxins' leave beachgoers breathless
... areas along the Gulf of Mexico, are blooms of the ocean organism, Karenia brevis (K brevis), that are concentrated along shorelines and produce highly potent aerosolized toxins. New research reported in the January issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP...Understanding the Arctic -- NSF-funded expeditions cover new ground in climate science
...ed, the nature and physical characteristics of the ocean itself and the Arctic's role in climate change, through field research conducted in the Arctic region....Ocean temperature predicts spread of marine species
... how the distance marine larvae travel varies with ocean temperature a key component in conservation and m...pecies, reproduces via larvae that drift far along ocean currents before returning to join adult populations. The distance larvae travel before maturing, cal...Squirrels winning at outwitting trees' survival strategy
...lly tracked. The red squirrels on this side of the ocean dine almost exclusively on the seeds of spruce cones, which they gnaw off before the seeds ripen. The squirrels are thus a major enemy of the spruce trees. If the squirrels become too successful, their hoarding and gorging on the cones thwarts the tr...Multinational scientific expedition kicks off International Polar Year 2007-2008
...ith educators and media to inform the public about ocean research in Antarctic waters and to develop educational materials for use in classrooms worldwide. "This kind of research is a major achievement," said Jos Retamales, director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute. "Especially with the participation o...