Oceanography

Proteomics Can Reveal Changes In The Body Of The Ocean

For decades, doctors have developed methods to diagnose how different types of cells and systems in the body are functioning. Now scientists have adapted biomedical techniques to study the vast body of the ocean. In a Science paper, scientists demonstrate ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 10:31am

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 moving. However, scientists discovered that as the oceans grow more acidic this century, sharks may swim for longer times than before. These new findings suggest t ...

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

CO2 Budget: The Lesser Known Role Of Arctic Sea Ice

In a global warming scenario, large areas of sea ice melt in the summer and when sea ice freezes over in the winter it is thinner and more reduced. But warmer Arctic summers could lead to an acceleration of global warming, because reduced sea ice in the A ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2014 - 10:54am

Thinner Too: Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Sixth Lowest On Record

Arctic sea ice coverage declined to its annual minimum on September 17th and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder find that this year's minimum extent is similar to last year's and below the 1981-2 ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2014 - 9:44am

Ice Loss Due To Warming Is Even Changing Gravity

Ice ebbs and flows, that is no secret- but lost in claims that ice is as widespread as ever is the reality that it is now thinner, and the difference is so noticeable the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite can detect ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2014 - 11:29am

Why Ice Sheets Will Keep Melting For Centuries To Come

It may already be too late to stop Antarctic ice sliding into the ocean. Credit: EPA By Eelco Rohling, University of Southampton Ice sheets respond slowly to changes in climate, because they are so massive that they themselves dominate the climate conditi ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 28 2014 - 8:00am

Nordic Seas Saline- It's The Gulfsream, Not The Melting Arctic

There is less saline in Nordic Seas but that can't be blamed on more Arctic waters due to global warming. Instead, it is that the Gulf Stream has provided less salt.  The Nordic Seas have freshened substantially since 1950. This has happened at the sa ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2014 - 10:56am

Pollution Linked To Sea Turtle Cancer

Farm runoff and urban pollution in the Hawaiian islands is causing sea turtle tumors, according to a study in PeerJ. The paper by researchers at  Duke University, the University of Hawaii and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2014 - 2:00pm

Understanding The Greenland Ice Sheet's Meltwater Channels

Ice sheets were never simple. There is no magic knob that could be turned to optimize melting rates and movement, outside environmental press releases. A new paper in Nature this week shows that not only is meltwater not as simple as sometimes contended, ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2014 - 2:55pm

Humans Drained The Aral Sea Once Before – But There Are No Free Refills This Time Round

Worth it for cheap cotton? Credit: so11e /flckr, CC BY-NC-ND By Anson Mackay, University College London The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively; new satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, t ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 5 2014 - 10:51am