Oceanography

Plastics: What Goes Around... Gets Stuck In The Middle

every day – candy wrappers, packaging, the odd ripped shoulderbag.  I rarely think about what that ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Jun 7 2012 - 11:49am

Earth Orbit Changes Linked To Antarctic Warming

teaches us about how our climate system works." West Antarctica is separated from East Antarctica by ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2013 - 3:01pm

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

Northeast Pacific that dated to about 20,000 years ago. The study's lead author, graduate student ...

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

Now That's Warming: 50 Million Years Ago, Antarctica Was Like California

conditions with climate model simulations to learn something new about how the Earth's climate system ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 8:26pm

West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Is Only A Few Centuries Away

about 2,000 feet (600 meters). Results show that as the ice edge retreats into the deeper part of the ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2014 - 12:00am

Iron's Impact On The Ocean Carbon Cycle Needs Greater Study

iron, there are about a million atoms of carbon, says John. A little iron goes a long way in allowing ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2014 - 10:36am

Virtual Water Shortage By 2040

recommendations are common-sense, the others are more driven by politics and unrealistic ideas about economics ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2014 - 12:01pm

Swirling Currents Deliver Phytoplankton Carbon To Ocean Depths

widespread. The researchers say that learning more about eddies and the underlying physical mechanisms of the ...

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

New Surfaces Delay Ice Formation

surfaces. Small droplets about 5 micrometers in diameter initially formed on both the hydrophobic and ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2015 - 7:30am

Petermann Ice Island- Now There Are Two

hindmost part of the ice island is about 200m thick 5. A gentle Bump Observing that the ice island moved ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Sep 11 2010 - 2:06am