Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism Two of the world's premiere
ocean scientists from Harvard and MIT have addressed the data limitations that currently prevent the oceanographic community from resolving the differences among various...
Dr. Mojib Latif, a prize - winning climate and
ocean scientist from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel, wrote a paper last year positing that cyclical shifts in the oceans were aligning in a way that could keep the next decade or so relatively cool, even as the heat - trapping gases linked to global warming continue to increase.
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.
The melting adds between 120 and 140 tons of ice to the
ocean, which
scientists say will raise water levels globally anywhere
from 1.33 to 1.5 inches each year.
In recent years, the fight against
ocean plastic pollution has gone
from a preoccupation of marine
scientists to a movement embraced by everyone
from schoolchildren to Queen Elizabeth II, galvanized by images of trash - strewn seas and sea turtles choking on plastic straws and other consumer castaways.
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.
Now,
scientists from both countries are working together on projects encompassing biomedical science, autism and other neurodegenerative diseases, agriculture,
ocean conservation, environmental research and more.
«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.
Roger Haagmans, ESA's Swarm mission
scientist, explained, «It's astonishing that the team has been able to use just two years» worth of measurements
from Swarm to determine the magnetic tidal effect
from the
ocean and to see how conductivity changes in the lithosphere and upper mantle.
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.
While it isn't uncommon to find sea urchins attached to elevated rocks in an attempt to snap food
from ocean currents, NOAA
scientists aren't quite sure why so many have chosen to gather here.
Climate
scientists have suspected — but never been able to prove — that the CO2 was the result of a huge belch of gas
from the
oceans.
Scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research Kiel are closely monitoring the developments.
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.
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.
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Scientists report
ocean data
from under Greenland's Petermann Glacier.»
Ling was part of an international team of 31
scientists from 15 countries that sailed on an eight - week International
Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 359 to the Maldives.
It's possible the parasite has always been in the
ocean, but most
scientists think it somehow got there
from cats — the only known carrier of the oocysts.
The authors also include PhD student Ashley Stasko and
scientists from Fisheries and
Oceans Canada.
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.
The research, published this month in Nature Communications, was conducted by a team of
scientists from Cardiff University's School of Earth and
Ocean Sciences, the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Barcelona.
Recording these temperatures continuously can help
scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the
ocean melts the ice shelves
from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.
Scientists have drilled into one of the most isolated depths in all of the world's
oceans: a hidden shore of Antarctica that sits under 740 meters of ice, hundreds of kilometers in
from the sea edge of a major Antarctic ice shelf.
Help U.S. marine
scientists monitor the spread of radiation across the Pacific
Ocean from Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
This global biological recordbased on daily observations of
ocean algae and land plants
from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable
scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the
oceans food web.
After further analysis of the data, the
scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm
ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting
from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.
The problem stems
from oxygen reduction in deep water, a phenomenon that some
scientists are observing in
oceans worldwide, and that may be related to climate change.
Scientists already knew that
ocean acidification was preventing coral
from producing the material that forms the building blocks of reefs.
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.
In fact, government
scientists from Fisheries and
Oceans Canada speculated in a paper published this year in Fisheries Oceanography that the Kasatoshi eruption might be linked to the abundance of returning salmon in 2010.
Led by Fisheries and
Oceans Canada, a team of
scientists tracked returning Fraser River sockeye to see whether the genetic activity of those that successfully spawned differed
from the activity of those that perished prematurely en route.
asks Russ George, chief
scientist of the expedition as well as a controversial businessman with a history of attempting to start CO2 - removal schemes ranging
from reforestation to
ocean fertilization.
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.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, so
scientists are interested in how it might be released
from the
ocean bottom.
Marine
scientist Douglas Rasher,
from the nonprofit Bigelow Laboratory for
Ocean Sciences in Maine.
More than half the oxygen we breathe comes
from the
ocean, much of it
from aquatic ecosystems that
scientists have barely begun to study.
Scientists conducting fieldwork in the region are reporting massive chick die - offs and nests with abandoned eggs, reports National Geographic's Winged Warnings series, which lays out the many threats facing the island's seabirds: warming
oceans, earlier thaws, changing
ocean chemistry and food webs, and increasing levels of
ocean pollutants
from PCBs to mercury.
An international team of
scientists have discovered two new plankton - eating fossil fish species of the genus called Rhinconichthys (Rink - O - nik - thees)
from the
oceans of the Cretaceous Period, about 92 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the planet.
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.
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.
(Those who worry about mercury contamination in fish got some good news recently: In one study conducted in the Seychelles, a group of islands in the Indian
Ocean,
scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center tracked pregnant women who ate an average of 12 fish meals a week, about 10 times the quantity of fish eaten by the average American.
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.
Analyzing data collected over a 20 - month period,
scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that the number of cirrus clouds above the Pacific
Ocean declines with warmer sea surface temperatures.
However,
scientists can't predict precisely what effect the carbon dioxide currently being pulled into the
ocean from the atmosphere will have on climate.
Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open
ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy
from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.
Scientists know all this because of data collected
from satellites that detect changes in the
ocean's height.
Scientists used to think the Amazon was too wet to burn, but a warming Atlantic
Ocean is drawing moisture away
from the rainforest
But
scientists increasingly attribute much of the observed grounding line retreat — particularly in West Antarctica — to the influence of warmer
ocean water seeping beneath the ice shelves and lapping against the bases of glaciers, melting the ice
from the bottom up.