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Oceans Under Surveillance
Three projects seek to track changes in Atlantic overturning circulation currents.
Remember the BP Oil Spill? Malformed Fish Do
A new study shows that sediments fouled with oil from the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico caused problems for fish embryos.
Scientists Uncover Relationship Between Lavas Erupting On Sea Floor And Deep-Carbon Cycle
Scientists have found unsuspected linkages between the oxidation state of iron in volcanic rocks and variations in the chemistry of the deep Earth.
In Pursuit of an Underwater Menagerie
After a long, cold swim in the dark, we spotted it on the night reef with our dive lights: Octopus ornatus, the ornate octopus, a foot-long creature in an amber shade of orange with bright white spots and dashes along all its arms.
Scientists Retrieve Temperature Data from Japan Trench Observatory
Data will reveal frictional heat generated by fault slip during the Tohoku earthquake
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Oceans Awash: 5 Wins and 5 Losses in 2010 : President Obama issued an executive order in July to implement conservation-based management of our public seas -- based on marine spatial planning, or what former Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen calls, "urban planning into the water column." ...
New NOAA Report Examines National Oil Pollution Threat from Shipwrecks : NOAA presented to the U.S. Coast Guard today a new report that finds that 36 sunken vessels scattered across the U.S. seafloor could pose an oil pollution threat to the nation's coastal marine resources....
The Ocean Offers Many Lessons : Even before Darwin first speculated that life emerged from "some warm little pond," the book of Genesis said God prefaced the creation of humanity by making the "great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water."...
Changing Wave Heights Projected As The Atmosphere Warms; ‘Considerable Uncertainty Remains’ : Climate scientists studying the impact of changing wave behavior on the world's coastlines are reporting a likely decrease in average wave heights across 25 per cent of the global ocean....
Q&A: Blinding Us From Science : Science is under attack. With corporations manufacturing uncertainty to undermine studies that hurt their bottom lines and the sequester cutting billions in funding for scientific research, you’d think the American science community would be hunkered down in t...
Shark-Stalking Robot Will Spy on Ocean’s Deadliest Predators : This summer, a new underwater robot will start tracking some of the ocean's top predators -- including great white sharks -- to learn more about their habits....
Amazing Sea Butterflies Are the Ocean’s Canary in the Coal Mine : The chemistry of the ocean is changing. Most climate change discussion focuses on the warmth of the air, but around one-quarter of the carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere dissolves into the ocean. ...
Opportunity: Senior Manager, Policy : The Consortium for Ocean Leadership is pleased to announce the search for a Senior Manager, Policy. This is a regular, full-time. exempt position....
As CO2 Approaches Symbolic Milestone, Scripps Launches Daily Keeling Curve Update : Levels of the greenhouse gas are approaching 400 parts per million; Scripps offering daily Twitter feed, news and analysis of climate indicators ...
World Ocean Day: Why Do We Currently Know More About the Moon than Our Own Oceans? : How much do we know about life in the ocean? A lot, you might say. But how much do we really know about life in the ocean? A lot less than you might think, I say....
