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Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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Typhoon Vamco is being as stubborn in its quest to live in the Pacific Ocean as Bill is in the Atlantic Ocean this week, and NASA satellite data confirmed that the large storm has a huge eye, about 45 miles ...
Oceanographers examine mercury levels of pelagic fish in Hawaii
Sep 01, 2009 |
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In the open ocean, species of large predatory fish will swim and hunt for food at various depths, which leads to unique diets in these fish. Oceanographers and geologists in the School of Ocean and Earth Science ...
Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue ...
Researchers reveal ocean acidification at Station ALOHA
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Aug 06, 2009 |
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The burning of fossil fuels has released tremendous amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, significantly impacting global climate. Were it not for the absorption of CO2 by ...
Less ice in the Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 years ago
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice ...
African desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled ...
UC San Diego to develop ocean observing cyberinfrastructure
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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The U.S. has taken the next step toward construction of the revolutionary Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI): a network of ocean observing components, and their associated cyberinfrastructure, that will allow scientists ...
Scientists uncover miscalculation in geological undersea record
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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The precise timing of the origin of life on Earth and the changes in life during the past 4.5 billion years has been a subject of great controversy for the past century. The principal indicator of the amount of organic carbon ...
Complex ocean behavior studied with 'artificial upwelling'
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Sep 02, 2008 |
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A team of scientists is studying the complex ocean upwelling process by mimicking nature – pumping cold, nutrient-rich water from deep within the Pacific Ocean and releasing it into surface waters near Hawaii that lack the ...
Scientists Test 'Artificial Upwelling' to Learn More About Complex Ocean Ecosystem Behavior
Sep 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists is studying the complex ocean upwelling process by mimicking nature – pumping cold, nutrient-rich water from deep within the Pacific Ocean and releasing it into surface waters near Hawaii ...
Seabird's ocean lifestyle revealed
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Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An important British seabird has been tracked for the first time using miniature positioning loggers. The results are giving a team led by Oxford University zoologists information that could ...
Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy Sources
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly a decade of data from ...
Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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This morning, Cyclone Anja was a powerful Category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Wind shear has now giving Anja a strong "punch in the gut" as the storm has weakened to a Category 1 cyclone.
Hawaii regulators approve first US tuna farm
Oct 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hawaii regulators have approved a Honolulu startup company's plan to build the nation's first tuna farm in waters off the Big Island.
CU-Boulder Unmanned Aircraft Buzz Over Gigantic Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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A series of record-setting unmanned research flights are providing University of Colorado at Boulder researchers with some of the first 3-D observations of gaping holes in the Antarctic sea ice known as polynyas ...
