The interaction
between ocean science and policy will continue to specify future pathways of climate change.
The one - year MAS degree is intended for professionals who wish to develop an interdisciplinary career at the interface
between ocean sciences and public policy.
Not exact matches
So climatologist James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee and his colleagues looked for ties
between hurricane tracks and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a seesaw shift in atmospheric pressures over the
ocean (
Science, 12 February 1999, p. 948).
«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 since 1998.
«This paper is significant because it identifies a link
between ocean conditions and the magnitude of the toxic bloom in 2015 that resulted in the highest levels of domoic acid contamination in the food web ever recorded for many species,» said co-author Kathi Lefebvre, a marine biologist at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries
Science Center.
«This relationship
between Antarctica temperature and CO2 suggested that somehow the Southern
Ocean was pivotal in controlling natural atmospheric CO2 concentrations,» said Dr Maxim Nikurashin from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System
Science.
«We found that the rate at which a species spawn drives the relatedness
between distant populations,» said Claire Paris, associate professor of
ocean sciences at the UM Rosenstiel School.
In a paper published January 25 in
Science Advances, a team led by WHOI oceanographers Viviane Menezes and Alison Macdonald report that Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) has freshened at a surprising rate
between 2007 and 2016 — a shift that could alter
ocean circulation and ultimately contribute to rising sea levels.
Five papers in the Oct. 13
Science describe some of the first data collected by the satellite, which is giving scientists an unprecedented peek into how carbon moves
between land, atmosphere and
oceans.
Kaitlin Naughten from the University of New South Wales works on one of the most pressing issues facing modern climate
science: interactions
between the
ocean and the vast ice shelves fringing Antarctica.
Through an agreement of cooperation
between ZMT and the International
Ocean Institute (IOI), with each contributing its respective expertise and channels, it is expected that a global network can be created going beyond science, seeking a comprehensive approach to addressing ocean and coastal issues, with interdisciplinary projects, involving natural and social sciences, economics, and legal elements addressing education, training and rese
Ocean Institute (IOI), with each contributing its respective expertise and channels, it is expected that a global network can be created going beyond
science, seeking a comprehensive approach to addressing
ocean and coastal issues, with interdisciplinary projects, involving natural and social sciences, economics, and legal elements addressing education, training and rese
ocean and coastal issues, with interdisciplinary projects, involving natural and social
sciences, economics, and legal elements addressing education, training and research.
This fourth edition of the World
Ocean Review therefore attempts to build a bridge
between the theory of sustainability and its practical application in
science and policy - making.
Science communication efforts and collaborations
between scientists and educators are growing in number and effectiveness as the
ocean acidification field continues to grow.
Toby Tyrrell, Professor in Earth System
Science at the University of Southampton and co-author of the study, said: «In the future
ocean, the trade - off
between changing ecological and physiological costs of calcification and their benefits will ultimately decide how this important group is affected by
ocean acidification and global warming.
Between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enter the
ocean each year, according to figures published in the journal
Science in 2015.
She has published over 30 conservation
science papers on topics such as climate vulnerability and adaptation, marine protected areas, conservation planning, coral reef resilience,
ocean acidification, sea - level rise, blue carbon, customary tenure, and partnerships
between religious groups and conservation.
She is also a Nereus fellow, which means she is part of the collaborative Nereus program
between six leading marine
science institutes with the aim of undertaking research that advances our comprehensive understandings of the global
ocean systems across the natural and social
sciences, from oceanography and marine ecology to fisheries economics and impacts on coastal communities.
ECCO model - data syntheses are being used to quantify the
ocean's role in the global carbon cycle, to understand the recent evolution of the polar
oceans, to monitor time - evolving heat, water, and chemical exchanges within and
between different components of the Earth system, and for many other
science applications.
This year's top 10
science and health books, reviewed in Booklist
between December 1, 2014, and November 15, 2015, cover everything from slithery creatures on the
ocean floor to the programming language used to sail to the stars.
Its scientists work in the U.S. and internationally on
ocean issues, forests, endangered species, and the interface
between science and policy.
And as we learn from the Skeptical
Science article I linked to earlier, there is going to be a delay of «decades»
between the effects of the CO2 emissions in question (i.e., the heating of the atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect) and a corresponding warming of the
oceans.
The connection
between global warming and the changes in
ocean heat content has long been a subject of discussion in climate
science.
it seems that your conclusion:» the observed relationship
between increased intensity of TCs and rising
ocean temperatures appears to be robust» is in direct contradiction with your conclusion «our knowledge of likely future changes in hurricanes or tropical cyclones (TCs) remains an uncertain area of
science».
Now a new study by Durack et al. (2012) has been published in
Science that presents the relationship
between the
oceans and the atmosphere.
The point made in the skeptical
science article is that there is good quantitative agreement
between ocean heating and satellite measurements of the radiation imbalance which is what one would expect to see.
The study came out of a partnership
between the NOAA's National Centers for Coastal
Ocean Science (NCCOS) and the New York division of the State's
Ocean and Great Lakes Program.
NOAA assistant administrator for the National
Ocean Service, David Kennedy, says that cooperation
between the two groups helped save time and money, as well as making improved outcomes based on
science.
The article covers the research work of McCauley, a partner on Global Fishing Watch, a joint project
between Ocean, SkyTruth, and Google, led a study in
Science that outlined how this approach could mitigate overfishing, illegal fishing, and other dangers to vulnerable marine species.
I suggest they read the KISS paper [James P. Wallace, III, Anthony Finizza, and Joseph D'Aleo, «A Simple KISS Model to Examine the Relationship
Between Atmospheric CO2 Concentration, and
Ocean & Land Surface Temperatures, Taking into Consideration Solar and Volcanic Activity, As Well As Fossil Fuel Use,» in Evidence - Based Climate
Science, 2011, pp. 353 - 382, Elsevier, Oxford, Amsterdam, ISBN: 9780123859563] if they would like to discuss any of this further.
Last summer, James Hansen — the pioneer of modern climate
science — pieced together a research - based revelation: a little - known feedback cycle
between the
oceans and massive ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland might have already jump - started an exponential surge of sea levels.
Dr. Michiel Schaeffer, Director / Senior Scientist Co-founder of Climate Analytics and head of our
science team, bio-physicist with a PhD in dynamic meteorology, specialising in the interactions
between atmosphere,
ocean, eco-systems and society, author of the IPCC AR5 and the World Bank Turn Down the Heat reports.
Climate
science has been thrown into disarray by the hiatus, disagreement
between climate model and instrumental estimates of climate sensitivity, uncertainties in carbon uptake by plants, and diverging interpretations of
ocean heating (in the face of a dearth of observations).
Barnett et al. «Penetration of Human - Induced Warming into the World's
Oceans» (
Science, Vol 309, Issue 5732, 284 - 287, 8 July 2005) «A new study has found a «compelling agreement»
between observed changes in
ocean temperatures since 1960 and the changes simulated by two climate models under rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.
According to a recently published paper in the journal
Science, (Cook et al., 2016, «
Ocean forcing of glacier retreat in the western Antarctic Peninsula»), between 1945 and 2009 the mean ocean temperature warmed at depths of 150 to 400 meters for about 3 / 4ths of the waters surrounding the western Antarctic Peninsula
Ocean forcing of glacier retreat in the western Antarctic Peninsula»),
between 1945 and 2009 the mean
ocean temperature warmed at depths of 150 to 400 meters for about 3 / 4ths of the waters surrounding the western Antarctic Peninsula
ocean temperature warmed at depths of 150 to 400 meters for about 3 / 4ths of the waters surrounding the western Antarctic Peninsula (AP).
My educated layman's physicist's gut (layman as far as climate
science goes, not physics) tells me 2W / m2 out of the
ocean seems pretty high given that the temperature difference is generated by a peak forcing of only -3.4 W / m2 - it implies that the
ocean response is of the same order as the atmospheric response, which seems unlikely given the «impedance mismatch»
between the
ocean and atmosphere.
«There is a huge debate in climate
science over the relationship
between global warming and
ocean temperatures.
A new study, Plastic waste inputs from land into the
ocean, published in the journal
Science last week, estimated that plastic debris washing into the
ocean from 192 coastal countries reached somewhere
between 4.8 and 12.7 million metric tons in 2010.
Kaitlin Naughten from the University of New South Wales works on one of the most pressing issues facing modern climate
science: interactions
between the
ocean and the vast ice shelves fringing Antarctica.
A mismatch
between them can arise from a mis - specification of any of these components and climate
science is full of examples where reported mismatches ended up being due to problems in the observations or forcing functions rather than the models (ice age tropical
ocean temperatures, the MSU records etc.).
«By analyzing part of the genome that is inherited solely through the mother, we were able to detect differences
between sharks living along different continents - in effect, their DNA zip codes,» said Dr. Demian Chapman, leader of the research team and assistant director of
science of the Institute for Ocean Conservation S
science of the Institute for
Ocean Conservation
ScienceScience.