Along with two co-authors, Josh Willis, a climate scientist and ocean expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, found that warming of the seas — as measured by a network of deep - diving «Argo» buoys — essentially stopped over the last four years. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
The adjacent charts (courtesy of ocean expert Bob Tisdale) plot the temperature changes for each major ocean basin since late 1981. (c3headlines.com)
As TED describes it, «One piece of Mission Blue is a sea voyage to the Galapagos Islands, April 6 - 10, 2010, gathering some of the world's most renowned ocean experts — marine scientists, deep sea explorers, technology innovators, policy makers, business leaders, environmentalists, activists and artists — for an epic adventure into the blue. (treehugger.com)