Oceanography

Contrary To What You May Think, Salmon Scatter When They Hit The Ocean

sites anywhere from about 140 to 245 miles upstream from the ocean. As the fish swam, the acoustic tags ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2013 - 11:25am

GRACE Measures Water From Space

method has shown that the Greenland ice sheet is losing about 150 gigatonnes of ice each year, two thirds ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2008 - 1:14pm

First Accurate Glacier Inventory Created

ice sheets has to be warmed up to zero degrees first. Glaciers currently contribute about 1/3 to the ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2014 - 9:33am

How Much Mercury Is Floating In The Ocean?

sources over time." The group started by looking at data sets that offer detail about oceanic levels ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2014 - 3:00pm

Carbon's Importance To Ocean Life's Survival 252 Million Years Ago

high carbon levels began after the extinction event about 82,000 years before the official boundary ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2015 - 8:00am

New Methane Source Discovered In Arctic Ocean

sediments contain the hydrate reservoir, and have been doing so for about 2 million years. Citation: Joel E. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2015 - 1:46pm

Jakobshavn Isbrae- Greenland Glacier Has Always Changed With The Climate

showed that Jakobshavn Isbrae reached Iceboom lake about 20 or 25 years later, around 1820. Jakobshavn ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2011 - 10:48pm

Sediment Sleuth Tracks Radioactive Medicine Through Rivers

learn more about how sediment from the Delaware River is delivered to the estuary and fringing tidal ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2012 - 4:42pm

Encounters With Giant Sharks In The Arctic

communities are more updated with respect to knowledge about the basking shark than the authoritative research ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Aug 2 2018 - 11:56am

Arctic Ice July 2010- Update #1

Arctic Ice July 2010 I wrote: In about a week the National Snow and Ice Data Center- NSIDC- will be ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Oct 3 2010 - 4:24pm