A press release on the Planktos site, under the heading «New Era of Ocean Stewardship Unveiled by Planktos Foundation,» touts «the work of the team of dedicated
ocean scientists at The Planktos Foundation,» but I didn't get to meet any scientists.
El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz,
ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
«It doesn't follow that it's relevant to today,» says George Philander,
an ocean scientist at Princeton University, who points out that today's ocean currents are very different from those of the Eocene.
Not exact matches
«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid
ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary
scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.
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.
It comes down to what every
scientist knows too well — analyzing data collected by different methods, and
at different times, is a tricky business because some methods of collecting
ocean surface temperatures are more accurate than others.
Last week the Department of Fisheries and
Oceans, which is closing five of its seven libraries, allowed
scientists, consultants and members of the public to scavenge through what remained of Eric Marshall Library belonging to the Freshwater Institute
at the University of Manitoba.
, examine the flawed, conjectured hypothesises that Charles Darwin started - then jump on the wagon as the flight of fancy takes YOU to where ever YOU wishto go - YOU are in control, YOU create what you want, the laws of nature are
at YOUR fingertips, why YOU can probably create a tree, or fill an
ocean - freeze the polar icecaps — Lets all bow to YOU MR.
SCIENTIST.
Did you know that in 2014, over two years ago,
scientists estimated CONSERVATIVELY that there were
at least 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's
oceans.
He added that
scientists need to monitor carbon storage and possible temperature increases in
oceans at depths greater than 2 kilometers in addition to adding biogeochemical sensing capacity.
«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.
Cassini
scientist Luciano Iess
at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and colleagues have now mapped Enceladus's gravity and shown that it has a crescent - shaped
ocean, holding about as much water as Lake Superior in North America.
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.
«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.
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.
asks Peter Herring, a marine
scientist at the Southampton Oceanography Centre in Britain and author of The Biology of the Deep
Ocean.
The latest results come
at a time when
scientists are already reconsidering what was happening to
ocean oxygen levels during this crucial period.
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.
Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior
scientist and marine chemist
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific
Ocean.
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.
To take a closer look
at these processes, a team led by
scientists from Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory installed an array of seismometers on the floor of the Pacific
Ocean, near the center of the Pacific Plate.
Dione's
ocean is about 100 kilometers below the surface and roughly 65 kilometers deep, Mikael Beuthe, a planetary
scientist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, and colleagues report.
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.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ONLINE See photographs of
scientists doing the glacier and
ocean fieldwork described in this article
at ScientificAmerican.com/jul2012 / antarctica
In the report, an international team of climate
scientists warns policy - makers that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are
at the extreme end of predictions made only in 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as
oceans are becoming saturated.
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.
«If we're right,
oceans in the outer solar system are common, and other objects of similar size to Pluto there probably also have subsurface
oceans,» says Francis Nimmo, a lead author of one of the studies and planetary
scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
In the new study, co-author Katrina Virts, an atmospheric
scientist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was analyzing data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, a network of sensors that locates lightning strokes all over the globe, when she noticed a nearly straight line of lightning strokes across the Indian
Ocean.
This is according to emergency
ocean model simulations run by
scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and The University of Southampton to assess the potential impact of local
ocean circulation on the spread of pollutants.
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.
In April 2008,
scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that while the La Niña was weakening, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)-- a larger - scale, slower - cycling
ocean pattern — had shifted to its cool phase.
SeaWiFS data show that photosynthesizing organisms have declined in certain
ocean gyres (large - scale surface current patterns), said Jim Yoder, a
scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in a NASA article commemorating the end of SeaWiFS's mission.
Eelco Rohling, an
ocean and climate
scientist at the University of Southampton in England, has studied the paleoclimate record going back 50 million years.
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.
In a presentation
at a recent
ocean acidification conference, Tatters reported that the more CO2 and the less silicate, the higher the diatom's toxin production — more than doubling
at the level of dissolved CO2
scientists expect the
oceans to reach by 2100.
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.
Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute sent an aquatic robot on a test run deep below the Pacific
Ocean this summer
Scientists have found that about half of the organisms
at Cuatro Cienegas are most closely related to marine life, even though the oases here have not been in contact with the
ocean for tens of millions of years.
Indeed,
scientists at Scripps recently suggested that 1,800 - year cycles of
ocean tides could drive a natural rise in global temperatures.
The
ocean conveyor system, Rutgers
scientists believe, changed
at the same time as a major expansion in the volume of the glaciers in the northern hemisphere as well as a substantial fall in sea levels.
Rising global temperatures portend shifts in all these
ocean currents, potentially with drastic consequences, says Albert Gabric, an environmental
scientist at Griffith University in Brisbane.
Lead
scientist Jeffrey Hawkes, currently a postdoctoral fellow
at Uppsala University in Sweden, directed an experiment in which the researchers heated water in a laboratory to 380 degrees Celsius (716 degrees Fahrenheit) in a scientific pressure cooker to mimic the effect of
ocean water passing through hydrothermal vents.
This past June
scientists at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi reported that the eyewall's extreme conditions can stir up
ocean currents 300 feet below the surface, disrupting sediment and organisms on the seafloor for as long as a week after the storm subsides.
At least, nuclear, upper atmospheric, and
ocean sciences connote certain fields of training and the sorts of things that interest
scientists making careers of those fields.
At the western edge of the Pacific
Ocean, thousands of meters below the surface,
scientists have discovered a remarkable new creature they have dubbed the «squidworm.»
The study forms part of the GATEWAYS (www.gateways-itn.eu) project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, coordinated by Rainer Zahn, a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) and the UAB's Department of Physics, and taking part in it was Martin Ziegler, a post-doctoral researcher
at the School of Earth and
Ocean Sciences of the University of Cardiff (UK) and
scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (UK).