► In Science, Dennis Normile wrote about the impact of the sinking of the Taiwanese research vessel
Ocean Research V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fields.»
Not exact matches
Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of
research, which
has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and
ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
To find a beer that
has the same tastes - like - the -
ocean - effect is possible, Jeppe Jarnit - Bjergsø, the founder of Evil Twin Brewing told me, but most restaurants don't put as much
research and expertise into building a 50 - page beer list.
We
've gone up to Axel Heiberg Island, a Canadian island high in the Arctic
Ocean, to do some work there at the McGill Arctic
Research Station, a.k.a. Mars.
Research conducted at The University of Texas at Austin
has found that changes in
ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean influence rainfall in the Western Hemisphere, and that these two systems have been linked for thousands of y
ocean currents in the Atlantic
Ocean influence rainfall in the Western Hemisphere, and that these two systems have been linked for thousands of y
Ocean influence rainfall in the Western Hemisphere, and that these two systems
have been linked for thousands of years.
New
research suggests the annual number of days that some part of the
ocean is experiencing a heat wave
has increased 54 percent from 1925 to 2016, researchers report April 10 in Nature Communications.
And new
research shows how genetic alterations in this odd - colored blood
have helped the octopus colonize the world's wide
oceans — from the deep, freezing Antarctic to the warm equatorial tropics.The iron - based protein (hemoglobin) that carries oxygen in the blood for us red - blooded vertebrates becomes ineffective when faced with low - oxygen levels.
Afterward, he helped two
ocean - minded philanthropists, Eric and Wendy Schmidt, outfit their
research vessel, the R /
V Falkor, at a cost of $ 60 million.
Different kinds of plastic may be suspended at different depths — a dreadful rainbow of rubbish spanning the
ocean from top to bottom — but no one
has done the
research to find out.
While it is still possible that other factors, such as heat storage in other
oceans or an increase in aerosols,
have led to cooling at the Earth's surface, this
research is yet another piece of evidence that strongly points to the Pacific
Ocean as the reason behind a slowdown in warming.
Past
research has assessed
ocean noise sources individually.
While the threat of coral bleaching as a result of climate change poses a serious risk to the future of coral reefs world wide, new
research has found that some baby corals may be able to cope with the negative effects of
ocean acidification.
In a paper published in Marine Policy yesterday, Tom Polacheck, a senior researcher at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian national research agency in Hobart, presents a case study of how a paper from CSIRO submitted to a subgroup of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission had to be pulled owing to political c
Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian national
research agency in Hobart, presents a case study of how a paper from CSIRO submitted to a subgroup of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission had to be pulled owing to political c
research agency in Hobart, presents a case study of how a paper from CSIRO submitted to a subgroup of the Indian
Ocean Tuna Commission
had to be pulled owing to political concerns.
Yet in recent decades, anthropogenic
ocean noise levels
have risen markedly — doubling every decade for the past 50 years, according to
research by scientists at Scripps Whale Acoustic Lab.
Atmospheric scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research Kiel and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg
have now found an explanation that could significantly improve the interpretation of ice cores.
Funding for climate
research would drop 19 percent, weather and air chemistry
research 25 percent and
ocean, coastal and Great Lakes
research by 49 percent.
Traditionally oceanographers
have gleaned insight into the
ocean through observations made on
research cruises conducted for a few weeks a year at great cost.
Recent
research reveals that there
has been a 9 percent decline in primary productivity in the North Pacific
Ocean, 7 percent in the North Atlantic, and about 6 percent diminishment worldwide.
Atmospheric physicist John Latham of the National Center for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder, Colo., and a host of British colleagues propose that a such a battalion — total tab at least $ 2.6 billion —
would ply the world's
oceans thickening clouds as they went.
Previous
research has also suggested that
ocean oxygen levels are going down globally.
In an unprecedented evolution experiment scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperat
Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries
have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's
oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to
ocean acidification and rising water temperat
ocean acidification and rising water temperatures.
Their
research remedies a problem that
has plagued scientists for decades:
ocean - observing satellites are incredibly powerful tools, but they can only «see» the surface layer of the
ocean, leaving most of its depths out of reach.
A
research team led by Chris Goldfinger at Oregon State University (OSU) used core samples from the
ocean floor along the fault to establish that there
have been at least 41 Cascadia events in the last ten thousand years.
The new monitoring techniques can help monitor hot spots such as the Bay of Bengal, the Arctic
Ocean and the Caribbean, three places where ocean acidification could have major economic impacts but where little research has been
Ocean and the Caribbean, three places where
ocean acidification could have major economic impacts but where little research has been
ocean acidification could
have major economic impacts but where little
research has been done.
A German - Russian
research team
has investigated the role of heat exchange between
ocean and atmosphere in long - term climate variability in the Atlantic.
Koslow
has researched the impact of climate - change - driven warming on what are known as oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), naturally occurring low - oxygen regions found well below the
ocean's surface.
More broadly, previous
research had found that oxygen levels
had declined in OMZs in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic
oceans since the 1950s.
«I
would say the stratosphere is still needed to amplify these effects from the troposphere to
have an impact on the
ocean, but I
would like future
research to really investigate this question.»
Conventional wisdom says the larvae float passively in
ocean currents, but the
research suggests they can control their movements more than
has been appreciated.
While oxygen is believed to
have first accumulated in Earth's atmosphere around 2.45 billion years ago, new
research shows that
oceans contained plentiful oxygen long before that time, providing energy - rich habitat for early life.
The Congressional briefing, «Living at the Extremes: Geoscience
Research at the Coolest Places on Earth,» planned by AAAS in collaboration with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in celebration of National
Oceans Month, explored the implications that the Earth's poles have for our natural environment, oceans, and national sec
Oceans Month, explored the implications that the Earth's poles
have for our natural environment,
oceans, and national sec
oceans, and national security.
«Even if we were to set very optimistic rates and raise the amount of vegetable protein in the feed, the pressure on fisheries and fish stocks
would increase enormously and likely cause their collapse,» says co-author Thorsten Reusch from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research Kiel.
Economists, fisheries and evolutionary biologists from Kiel University, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research Kiel, and the Finnish University of Helsinki working together in an interdisciplinary project
have calculated how fishery and aquaculture will develop in the coming decades in regard to popular types of edible fish such as sea bass, salmon, cod and tuna.
The
research shows that protecting more of the
ocean will also improve the outlook for environmental recovery after greenhouse gas emissions
have been brought under control.
Meanwhile,
research suggests that
ocean warming as a whole
has also been speeding up.
The
research, an analysis of sea salt sodium levels in mountain ice cores, finds that warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific
Ocean have intensified the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.
This could
have significant implications for Antarctica's ice shelves and ice sheets, with previous
research showing that even small increases in
ocean temperatures can substantially increase melt rates around the Peninsula.
HEU
has formed a well - structured curriculum that is characterized by the main subjects of ship industry,
ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application as well as distinctive, related disciplines with matching support and reasonable structural layout: 12 first - degree doctoral stations, 27 first - degree master stations, 56 under graduate majors, 13 post-doctoral mobile stations (
research station), 1 national key discipline of the first - degree subjects, 1 national key discipline of the second - degree subjects, 11 defense featured subjects, 7 special defense majors, 4 characteristic profession stations of the Ministry of Education, 1Heilongjiang provincial key discipline group, 11 first - degree subjects.
Despite the importance of oxygen levels, relatively little information
has been collected across the vast watery reaches of earth and this
research is confined to six areas in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian
oceans.
One participant is Katja Matthes, now a full professor at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research Kiel, who
had come back to Germany after three years in the United States for the one - year return phase of her European Marie Curie fellowship at the Free University of Berlin.
«We can't protect our own ecosystem if we're not protecting Cuba's,» said Fernando Bretos Trelles, director of the
Ocean Foundation's Cuba Marine
Research Conservation Project, which has facilitated collaborative research between U.S. institutions and the University of Havana and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment sin
Research Conservation Project, which
has facilitated collaborative
research between U.S. institutions and the University of Havana and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment sin
research between U.S. institutions and the University of Havana and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment since 1998.
Research from 2011, led by Hauri, found that the melt inclusions
have plenty of water — as much water, in fact, as lavas forming on the Earth's
ocean floor.
Will Howard of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative
Research Centre in Hobart
has shown that some species of coral
have a similar sensitivity to acidification as foraminifera in parts of the Southern
Ocean, which are struggling to build their shells.
Since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, new opportunities for
research cooperation
have opened up quickly in such fields as biomedical sciences, public health, and agriculture as well as science related to
ocean conservation and other environmental
research.
In one study published in Geophysical
Research Letters in 2007, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, estimated the mass redistribution resulting from
ocean warming
would shorten the day by 120 microseconds, or nearly one tenth of a millisecond, over the next two centuries.
A
research project called the Arctic Coring Expedition linked to the Integrated
Ocean Drilling Project headed north, hoping to find traces of this phenomenon to explain how it
had happened.
Having completed her PhD at the University of Exeter, Dr Kennedy's latest
research involves assessing the responses of coralline algae to
ocean acidification and warming.
Research published Sunday concluded that the upper 2,300 feet of the Southern Hemisphere's
oceans may
have warmed twice as quickly after 1970 than
had previously been thought.
The scientists also identified carbon fluxes where further
research would be needed to reduce uncertainties, including the exchange of carbon between shelf waters and the open
ocean.
«We
have to try our best to work together in a cooperative way so that we all know as much as we can about how fragile these populations can be,» says Jack Orr, project lead for the Arctic
Research Division at Fisheries and
Oceans Canada.