News tagged with open ocean


Complex ocean behavior studied with 'artificial upwelling'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 6

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

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(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 ...





Search results for open ocean


Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye

Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

Oceanographers examine mercury levels of pelagic fish in Hawaii

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers reveal ocean acidification at Station ALOHA

Researchers reveal ocean acidification at Station ALOHA

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

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

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (46) | comments 15

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

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 8

(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

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (28) | comments 3

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 ...


Seabird's ocean lifestyle revealed

Seabird's ocean lifestyle revealed

Biology /

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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

Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy Sources

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

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 ...



List of search results for open ocean