Oceanography

20 Million Square Kilometers- Antarctic Sea Ice New Record Maximum

Antarctic sea ice reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 7.72 million s ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 2:02pm

The Icebergs Of Florida

A new computer model has estimated ocean circulation during the last ice age, about 21,000 year ago, and believe that icebergs and meltwater from the North American ice sheet would have regularly reached South Carolina and even southern Florida. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2014 - 8:39pm

Gonzalo: First Major Atlantic Hurricane In 3 Years

Though the continental United States hasn't had a major hurricane in almost 10 years, the rest of the world hasn't been so lucky. Japan just had a typhoon, India a cyclone, and, with Gonzalo, Bermuda is about to have its first major Atlantic hur ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 5:11pm

Climate Change Caused By The Ocean

Focus on greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has led to a lot of confusion among the public: bad storms are caused by global warming but a lack of warming is not. There may be a reason things don't add up, according to a paper in Science. The circulat ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2014 - 12:30pm

How To Replicate The Tide For $27

Though he is glorified by modern science advocates, Galileo was wrong about a lot of things- for example, when his calculation that the tides only happened once a day and was at the same time was criticized, he launched into vitriolic attacks on both Kepl ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2014 - 10:27pm

Mysterious Tar Mounds A Mile Below The West African Ocean

Over a mile beneath the West African ocean, off the coast of Angola, are over 2,000 mounds of asphalt containing a wealth of deep-water creatures. A paper in Deep-Sea Research 1 examined the images and data captured at the site to build an intriguing pictu ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2014 - 9:30am

2014- Global Warming Is Back On Track?

From 2000-2013 the global ocean surface temperature did not rise in spite of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. This Global Warming Hiatus generated a lot of public and scientific interest and no small amount of skepticism about the accuracy of the ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2014 - 9:30am

Jelly Takeover: Loss Of Calcium In Lakes Is Shaping Evolution

Historical acid deposits have greatly reduced calcium levels in Canadian lakes and that is dramatically impacting populations of calcium-rich plankton such as Daphnia- water fleas that dominate these ecosystems.  ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2014 - 12:39pm

Modern Sea Ice In The Arctic Ocean Emerged 2.6 Million Years Ago

The Arctic Ocean sea ice cover emerged 2.6 million years ago- and it hasn't changed since. Not in all of the recurring warming cycles we have had and not even in 2006, when pundits predicted it would be melted by 2014. It wasn't always that way. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 30 2014 - 8:00am

Why Is Antarctic Sea Ice Getting Thicker?

We can't figure it out. Changehali, CC BY By Edward Hanna, University of Sheffield ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 3 2014 - 12:30pm