Scripps scientists find potential for catastrophic shifts in Pacific ecosystems
...ical characteristics of the North Pacific, such as sea surface temperature (which were suspected to show regimes), are not nonlinear. Rather, these physical characteristics evolve in a complicated but apparently linear manner, involving the sum of many variables. This finding means that suspected regime...News tips: NASA presentations at Annual 2005 Joint Assembly Meeting
...100 Years This presentation discusses the role of sea surface temperature and other factors in extended ...ture feedbacks, long-term (decadal) changes in the sea surface temperature, and El Nino. Time/Location: Tuesday, May 24 at 3 p.m. EDT (2 p.m. local CDT), ...Road salt affects mitigation wetlands
...noff wetland reach peaks that are half as salty as sea water," Silver told attendees at the North American Benthological Meeting today (May 24) at the 2005 Joint Assembly in New Orleans. "We recorded peaks during the winter as high as 10 to 12 parts per thousand in the runoff wetland and 2.5 to 3 parts ...Researchers discover underwater volcano
...th of approximately 200 meters-close enough to the sea surface that it could provide a potential hazard to ocean navigation and coastal communities. Such hazards may include the explosive reaction between red-hot lava and seawater, or tsunamis that may be caused by the collapse of the newly built volcan...For Tadeusz Molinski, the sea is full of riches -- and he does not mean oil fiel...ne natural products, or chemical compounds made by sea creatures. It is part of a developing focus on pharmaceutical chemistry within the UC Davis chemistr...World-first technology enables study of ancient bacteria
...e becomes unstable; this causes instability of the sea and an explosive mixture of air and methane above. Any ships or planes travelling over the area could sink or catch fire. "So ancient, deep-sediment bacteria may be a key to sustainable energy in the future and to explaining a few disasters," said ...World Ocean Day: How satellites safeguard our waters
...ure measurements Space-based instruments measure sea surface temperature, which is important because it.... An ambitious plan aims at merging all available sea surface temperature data including satellite sources into a worldwide high-resolution product known ...NHGRI selects 13 new targets for large-scale sequencing program
..., the chicken, the honey bee, ten fruit flies, the sea urchin, two puffer fish, two sea squirts, two roundworms, over a dozen fungi, baker's yeast and the bacterium Escherichia coli. Organ...Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU
...c resources "blue gold" on the international deep sea floor need protection from unfettered commercial ...d for their potential medical and other uses, deep sea resources are now more accessible and vulnerable than ever because of rapid advances in exploration ...'Sinkers' provide missing piece in deep-sea puzzle
... in modern oceanography is how animals in the deep sea get enough to eat. Marine biologists at the Monter...heorized that additional food washes into the deep sea from shallow coastal areas or river plumes. Other scientists have suggested that algal blooms or the...Space measurements of carbon offer clearer view of Earth's climate future
... vegetation burned, biomass, humidity and land and sea photosynthesis can sharpen the accuracy of terrestrial carbon models. The workshop also discussed the issue of the complexity of the models and the sparse nature of the data, focusing on 'data assimilation' - the process by which models make the mos...For first time, brain cells generated in a dish
...tion was known, but it was an obscure species in a sea of cell types. "We've isolated for the first time what appears to be the true candidate stem cell," said Steindler, a neuroscientist and member of UF's Program of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. "There have been other candidates, but in...UCLA engineering professor Jennifer Jay named recipient of Presidential Early Career Award
...nds, and the accumulation of mercury in endangered sea turtles. Jay also collaborates with local nonprofit groups to answer research questions concerning the microbial water quality at local California beaches. In addition to her research efforts, Jay also has developed an innovative service-learning cou......nderstand diseases that can cause blindness. Green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis): The female sea urchin can produce as many as a half million eggs during spawning season, and fertilization and embr...Researchers find evidence of photosynthesis deep within the ocean
...tely photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep sea hydrothermal vent," in the June 20 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to Blankenship and Beatty, team members are Jrg Overmann and Ann Manske, University of Munich, Germany; Michael Lince, Arizona State Univers...Manatee eyes could be window to health status
... disease and could be used to gauge the endangered sea cows' ability to fight stress from cold water temp...are believed to have the thickest tear film of any sea mammal, and possibly of any animal, Samuelson said. In general, mammals produce tears to protect aga...Deep sea algae connect ancient climate, carbon dioxide and vegetation
...of carbon-containing compounds produced by ancient sea surface algae that were recently isolated in deep sea drill cores. The data indicates that between 45 - 34 million years ago the atmospheric carbon dioxid...North & South American researchers find architectural abnormalities in T. cruzi ribosome
...ies the information encoded on a gene, it enters a sea of ribosomes, where that genetic information is translated into a protein product. Scientists have long known there was something strange about the genetic translational machinery of the Chagas parasite. Unlike in other organisms, an identical strin...Deep-sea jelly uses glowing red lures to catch fish
...heir native habitat, thousands of meters below the sea surface. The siphonophore featured in Haddock's ar...hat these red blobs served as lures for small deep sea fish. Their first clue lay in the siphonophore's behavior. Jellies that use bioluminescence for self...Scientists find evidence of catastrophic sand avalanches, sea level changes in Gulf of Mexico
...ophic sand avalanches in deep Gulf waters to rapid sea level changes. By analyzing downhole measurements ... basin formed approximately 20,000 years ago, when sea level fell so low that the Texas shoreline shifted almost 100 miles to the south. The data are impor...