«This web - site is a follow - up of the first symposium and is meant to provide a central source of information
for ocean scientists on research activities in this area.»
On RC people talk as though this is so obvious it requires no broader explanation, which is probably true
for ocean scientists.
For ocean scientists who have worked with the U.S. military, today's news that Chinese forces seized an oceanographic glider launched by an unarmed U.S. Navy research ship working in the South China Sea has a familiar ring.
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Scientists have found the two substances can be toxic to coral, which are a vital part of the
ocean ecosystem and a popular draw
for tourists.
And in many, many cases — such as with
ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, or ice shelf traveling speeds —
scientists have recorded the data
for decades, systematically, consistently, and with precision.
The Slocum Electric Glider, a small underwater
ocean drone made by Teledyne Marine, looks like a friendly missile and collects data
for scientists at institutions like Rutgers University.
While this is bad news
for the planet, it's good news
for climate change
scientists who have —
for the last two decades — puzzled over warming trends in
ocean surface temperatures
for nearly 20 years.
Lead author of the paper is research
scientist Andrew Jordan of the University of New Hampshire's Institute
for the Study of Earth,
Oceans, and Space (EOS).
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Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields
for more than 10 years —
scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by
ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the
ocean floor.
Scientists process cores in plastic liners before they're shipped to the International
Ocean Discovery Program's core repository in Bremen, Germany,
for detailed analysis this fall.
When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff — induced dead zones and other human impacts on
ocean fishes, a watery evolutionary stage has been set
for a jellyfish takeover — dubbed the «gelatinous
ocean» by some
scientists.
«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research
Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory
for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.
In 2016, she received a Presidential Early Career Award
for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in part
for bringing
ocean and climate change science into K - 12 classrooms.
A researcher from the University of Southampton will join an international team of
scientists, setting sail from Southampton today (26 October 2015)
for the middle of the Atlantic
Ocean, to drill rocks that were once part of the Earth's mantle.
Gerald Meehl, a climate
scientist at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research who was also an author on the paper, said this research expanded on past work, including his own research, that pointed to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation as a factor in a warming slowdown by finding a mechanism behind how the Pacific
Ocean was able to store enough heat to produce a pause in surface warming.
«It's a way to utilize an available resource instead of discarding it into the
ocean, where it's instantly no longer of use as freshwater,» says environmental health
scientist Kellogg Schwab, who directs the Center
for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre
for Ocean Research Kiel are closely monitoring the developments.
«Volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere absorb infrared radiation, thereby heating up the stratosphere, and changing the wind conditions subsequently,» said Dr. Matthew Toohey, atmospheric
scientist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre
for Ocean Research Kiel.
Scientists blame unusually warm
ocean temperatures this year
for the mass devastation of the world's corals
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.
Scientists had suspected
for a decade that the moon had a smaller sea, based on geysers spurting near its southern pole, but a widespread
ocean means more room
for otherworldly microbes to thrive.
Although no one can say
for certain whether the subsurface
ocean supplies the water that has been seen spraying out of the tiger stripes on Enceladus's surface, the
scientists say that it is possible.
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.
By accounting
for both CO2 and oxygen levels in the atmosphere,
scientists have calculated that
oceans and plants each absorb roughly one - quarter of humanity's CO2 emissions, leaving half to build up in the atmosphere.
At the time,
scientists already had developed remotely operated vehicles that could roam the seafloor, and placed instruments on the
ocean's bottom that could record uninterrupted measurements
for years.
Although some lakes can also absorb CO2 at their surfaces similar to the way
oceans do, the increases in these other sources of organic and inorganic carbon are likely the dominant factor, says Scott Higgins, a research
scientist at the International Institute
for Sustainable Development's Experimental Lakes Area, a natural laboratory of 58 small lakes in Ontario.
A study led by
scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre
for Ocean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time sc
Ocean Research Kiel shows that the
ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time sc
ocean currents influence the heat exchange between
ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time sc
ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scales.
Using an earth system modeling approach, Deutsch and
scientists at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology mapped out changing oxygen levels across the world's
oceans through the end of the 21st century.
Human - caused climate change,
ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to some
scientists, while other people argue that
for political or economic reasons we should allow industrial development to continue without restrictions.
Scientists define them as periods when the sea surface in a given area of the
ocean gets unusually warm
for at least five days in a row.
Scientists also claim that the impact of the asteroid would have filled Earth's atmosphere with sulphur trioxide, subsequently creating a gas cloud that would have caused a mass amount of sulphuric acid rain to fall in just a few days, making the surface of the
ocean too acidic
for upper
ocean creatures to live.
«This is very exciting in terms of its implications
for the deep
ocean and how mid-
ocean ridges work,» he told New
Scientist.
In 1998, a bot known as ROPOS («Remotely Operated Platform
for Ocean Science») sawed a black smoker free from the sea floor and hauled it up to allow
scientists to examine its structure and unique organisms.
Robots like Nereus will make it much easier
for scientists to explore vast regions of the deep
ocean that were once off - limits.
Andrew Rosenberg, a
scientist who led one of the report's chapters on
oceans and directs the Center
for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned
Scientists, said the report outlines changes that are happening now in various systems from agriculture to water resources to forestry to
oceans.
These findings from University of Melbourne
Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence
for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and
ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.
The effect of Kelvin - Helmholtz instability waves (named
for 19th century
scientists Lord William Thomson Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz) can commonly be seen in cloud patterns, on the surface of
oceans or lakes, or even a backyard pool.
Marine
scientist Douglas Rasher, from the nonprofit Bigelow Laboratory
for Ocean Sciences in Maine.
The promise of new ships has been a long - cherished hope
for many
ocean scientists.
Scientists wire the
oceans with data cables, permanent observatories, and robots that can roam
for years
The decision is laudable in that it acknowledges beluga sturgeon is threatened with extinction, but it doesn't go nearly far enough toward protecting them, says fisheries
scientist Ellen Pikitch, director of the University of Miami's Pew Institute
for Ocean Science and lead
scientist of Caviar Emptor.
Steinman and his team's approach is «novel
for a couple of reasons,» says Ben Booth, a climate
scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, U.K.. Although it's already widely accepted in the community that the Pacific
Ocean plays a large role, this paper gives a much longer time context, he says, highlighting the role of both
oceans over many decades.
Gargantuan stores of gas hydrates under the
oceans and permafrost regions of the globe have many
scientists wondering whether they can find an economically feasible way to unlock the methane, creating a natural gas supply that could last
for centuries.
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.
Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision
ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science
ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time
for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and
scientists from the international
Ocean Surface Topography Science
Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.
Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident,
scientists from the Consortium
for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale
ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.