One part kids» adventure story and one part scientific facts
about oceanography, the Explorium: Ocean For Kids app will have your kid hooked (get it?)
Nobody who knows anything at all
about oceanography — at the sharp end, as opposed to playing with their X-Boxes — believes in inexorable sea - level rise or the «death» of coral reefs.
He graduated from the University of Florida, majoring in chemistry but dreaming
about oceanography.
He has enjoyed seeing familiar faces return to the program to learn new subjects; in previous years, participants have learned
about oceanography, chemistry and the mechanics of simple machines.
«Even though he was at NIH, National Institutes of Health, he saw an opportunity to talk to someone who might know something
about oceanography,» says Bowen.
Every year, WHOI offers select journalists a chance to learn
about oceanography at a weeklong, on - site workshop.
Not exact matches
«But it's really interesting to think
about doing
oceanography without a ship.»
Finding a Path from
Oceanography to a Science Communication Career 15 October 2010 Roz Pidcock Partway through her Ph.D., Roz Pidcock realized she wanted to talk and write
about science, not do it herself.
Tour tide pool habitats, touch a starfish and learn
about the lab's environmental
oceanography focus.
James McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz professor of biological
oceanography at Harvard, talks
about climate science and testifying before Congress, and the collaborations between climate scientists and the national security community as well as with evangelicals.
Related sites Ian Hudson's site The Southampton
Oceanography Centre's holothurian site Basic information
about holothurians and their relatives
► 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.»
«The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of
oceanography,» says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper
about it published online today in Nature.
As Stephen C. Riser and M. Susan Lozier note in their February 2013 Scientific American article, «Rethinking the Gulf Stream,» «A comparison of the Argo data with ocean observations from the 1980s, carried out by Dean Roemmich and John Gilson of the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, shows that the upper few hundred meters of the oceans have warmed by
about 0.2 degree C in the past 20 years.
To learn more
about the work of the Bowditch and its sister ships, ScienceInsider chatted with now - retired Rear Admiral David Titley, who oversaw the U.S. Navy's research fleet from 2007 to 2009 as commander of the Naval Meteorology and
Oceanography Command.
According to Tara Stevens, who will earn her doctorate at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of
Oceanography later this year,
about 200 killer whales are believed to live in the area, most of which are seen in the summer months around Newfoundland.
The wave also damaged a marine research station operated by the University of Concepción in Dichato, a fishing town
about 50 kilometers from the city, and left its research vessel stranded several blocks from shore, according to Carlos Moffat, an
oceanography professor at the university.
This chick — it was
about five months old when biologist Gerald Kooyman of the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography found it — is completely white, except for its brown or black eyes.
Co-author Dr Ivan Haigh, lecturer in coastal
oceanography at the University of Southampton and also based at NOCS, adds: «Historical observations show a rising sea level from
about 1800 as sea water warmed up and melt water from glaciers and ice fields flowed into the oceans.
About NSU's Halmos College of Natural Sciences and
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Parents have given classroom presentations and hands - on demonstrations
about everything from
oceanography research to vaccines to sanitation in the developing world.
After attending South Carolina's Governor School for Science and Mathematics and studying Marine Biology and
Oceanography at the University of South Carolina's Honors College, Dr. King found a career path he was passionate
about in veterinary medicine.
Scripps Institution of
Oceanography researcher Dr. John Hildebrand talked
about how acoustic monitoring can be used to study marine mammals and shipping noise around the Channel Islands at the March «From Shore to Sea» lecture.
With just a pair of binoculars, you can spot whales from the high bluffs at Torrey Pines State Reserve and the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, both in La Jolla
about 20 minutes north of downtown San Diego.
My advice would be to undertake tertiary studies in
oceanography, then you actually understand the topic you erroneously think you know so much
about, and can make some of the basic calculations yourself.
He has half - baked ideas that defy the laws of physics, aka pseudo-science, and a folksy surface charm that appeals to some (but not all from what I've read) people who for some weird reason have an aversion to accepting or learning
about basic physics, chemistry, biology, geology,
oceanography and any and all earth system sciences.
A good place to start learning
about the historical (since 1913) warming of Lake T is the recent paper by Verburg and Hecky (2009) in Limnology and
Oceanography:
Ralph Keeling, head of the Scripps CO2 program at Scripps Institution of
Oceanography in California, says that at our current pace we will hit 450 parts per million in
about 16 years and exceed 500 parts per million in
about 36 years.
At present, co-author and
oceanography associate professor Evan Solomon is analyzing the chemical composition of bubble plume samples emitted at
about 500 meters deep off the Washington coast, seeing whether the gas comes from methane hydrates instead of other sources.
«The statistical significance of these results is far too strong to be merely dismissed, and should wipe out much of the uncertainty
about the reality of global warming,» said lead author Tim Barnett of the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography.
«The Union of Concerned Scientists and the Climate Accountability Institute brought together
about two dozen leading scientists, lawyers and legal scholars, historians, social scientists, and public opinion experts for a June 14 − 15, 2012, workshop at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography in La Jolla, CA.»
His co-author Robert Spencer, assistant professor of
oceanography at Florida State University, said: «The thing people have to think
about is what this means for the Earth.
«For those not in the know» La Nina is the direct consequence of the return of trade winds to their normal strength after a Nino so that renewed surface wind stress plus the Coriolis effect generate upwelling of cool water along the equatorial region: go read it up in any decent, old - fashioned text - book on physical
oceanography published after
about 1970....
Graduate students from the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography at the University of California - San Diego discovered a methane seep
about 30 miles off the coast.
The rate of growth is
about 2.5 parts per million per year, said Ralph Keeling, who directs the CO2 program at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, which monitors the readings.
Leaving everything else
about physics climatology ecology
oceanography etc aside, the idea that it is just pure chance / coincidence that we have had such a rapid increase in temperature in last 30 years is the most extreme example of wishful thinking the world has seen.
The Canadian Shark Research Laboratory at the Bedford Institute of
Oceanography, which is where the recent specimen was examined, has a profile of the Greenland Shark and hopefully the information contained therein can be updated with this recent specimen because the current profile backs up the point that very little is known
about this very large predator.
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