Ocean Leadership Participation in the USA Science and Engineering Festival
The second USA Science and Engineering Festival is taking place at the Washington Convention Center (WCC) in Washington, D.C. from April 27-29, 2012.
ONW: Week of April 9, 2012 – Number 160
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From the President’s Office – 4/12/2012
You might think that with Congress still out of session, things are quiet around here this week. Actually, the opposite is happening.
Largest Ice-Seal Count Ever About to Begin in Arctic
An international count to estimate the number of ice seals in the Bering Sea region begins this week, with researchers from Russia and the US planning to fly 30,000 square miles and use thermal imagery to pinpoint warm seals on the ice pack.
NOAA Releases Whale-Locating App for iPhone & iPad
Piloting a ship and trying to avoid colliding with a group of endangered whales? There’s an app for that.
2012 American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 45th Annual Fall Meeting
[ December 3, 2012 to December 7, 2012. ] Join more than 20,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and other leaders in San Francisco, California 3 – 7 December as they gather to present groundbreaking research and connect with colleagues.
Land Bridge Caused Wild Temperature Swings
Much of the last ice age was characterized by violent climate swings. At seemingly random times beginning about 80,000 years ago, average temperatures in and around the North Atlantic rose or fell by 10°C or more in the course of a decade or two—a pattern that lasted for 70,000 years.
Related Reading Oceanographer Leading Effort To Enlist Commercial Ships To Collect Ocean Data
A University of Rhode Island oceanographer is leading an effort to partner with the global shipping industry to systematically collect detailed data about the world’s oceans using equipment installed on commercial vessels.
How the Mariana Trench Became Earth’s Deepest Point
Heavy lava, tectonic movements shaped the 7-mile-deep abyss.
Announcement for 2012-2013 NOSB Question Writing and Development Committee Participants
Are you a science teacher or a marine scientist with a strong interest in education? Are you interested in earning some money by working from home this summer?
2012 U.S. Graduate Student Scholarships for the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology (USSP)
he 9th Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology (11-31 July 2012; http://www.urbinossp.it/) will provide graduate students with an intensive program on reconstructing the history and dynamics of climate through an integrated series of lectures, investigations, case studies, and field and laboratory analyses.
Evolution at Sea: Long-Term Experiments Indicate Phytoplankton Can Adapt to Ocean Acidification
Fossil fuel derived carbon dioxide has a serious impact on global climate but also a disturbing effect on the oceans, know as the other CO2 problem. When CO2 dissolves in seawater it forms carbonic acid and results in a drop in pH, the oceans acidify.
