Oceanography

Mussels And Oysters Endangered By The Acidification Of The Oceans

Since the beginning of the industrial age the ocean has absorbed about half of all anthropic(1) ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2007 - 12:44pm

Black Carbon Hitches A Ride To The Ocean Floor On Passing Particles

a ride to the ocean floor on passing particles. Virtually all black carbon results from combustion. Soot, ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 11:31am

Record Decline Of Ice Sheets, Except East Antarctica

glaciers. For the new digital maps, the researchers evaluated all data by the CryoSat-2 altimeter SIRAL. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2014 - 10:30am

Ocean Acidification May Encourage Sharks To Swim Longer Durations

By Charles Q. Choi, Inside Science It's a myth that all sharks will drown if they stop ...

Article - Charles Choi - Jul 11 2015 - 8:24pm

Swirling Currents Deliver Phytoplankton Carbon To Ocean Depths

event, a massive phytoplankton bloom, unfolds each spring in the Atlantic Ocean. But, what happens to all ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2015 - 8:30am

The Ocean's Unseen Waves: Where Heat, Energy And Nutrients Go

We've all been captivated by ocean waves, we accept (everyone except Galileo anyway) that the ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2015 - 3:00pm

32-mile Cable Installed For First Deep-sea Observatory

National Science Foundation (NSF). Currently, almost all oceanographic instruments in the deep sea rely on ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2007 - 6:10pm

Scientists Discover First Seafloor Vents On Ultraslow-spreading Ridge

Ocean, scientists have studied them all along the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a 40,000-mile-long mountain range that ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2007 - 11:28pm

Arctic Ice Retreating More Quickly Than Computer Models Project

Walt Meier, Ted Scambos, and Mark Serreze, all at NSIDC, also co-authored the study. Source: National ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2007 - 2:08pm

Climate Swings Have Brought Great CO2 Pulses Up From The Deep Sea

in all but two brief periods, beginning roughly 18,000 years and 13,000 years ago. That meant the ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2007 - 9:56pm