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One stop-shop for seamount managers and researchers: Launch of new SeamountsOnline portal
Mar 12, 2009 |
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A free online portal is providing deep-sea researchers and managers with new tools for finding and accessing information on the biological communities that live on seamounts (undersea mountains), facilitating ...
Termite killer lingers as a potent greenhouse gas
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Mar 10, 2009 |
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Sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2), a gas commonly used to rid buildings of termites and other pests, is a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere about 36 years, six to 10 times longer than previously thoug ...
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Researchers decode structure of promising sea compound
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and their colleagues at Creighton University have deciphered the highly unusual molecular structure of a naturally produced, ocean-based compound ...
Fish collection moves into the digital age
Mar 21, 2006 |
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University of California-San Diego scientists say the same technology used to image brain tumors is taking the field of marine biology to new dimensions.
Study compares sound from exploding volcanoes with jet engines
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Apr 08, 2009 |
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New research on infrasound from volcanic eruptions shows an unexpected connection with jet engines. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego speeded up the recorded sounds from two ...
Studies offers new picture of Lake Tahoe's earthquake potential
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Apr 29, 2009 |
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For more than a decade, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been unraveling the history of fault ruptures below the cobalt blue waters of Lake Tahoe one earthquake at a time. ...
Scripps expedition provides new baseline for coral reef conservation
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Feb 26, 2008 |
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An ambitious expedition led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to a chain of little-known islands in the central Pacific Ocean has yielded an unprecedented wealth of information ...
Scripps Oceanography Research pegs ID of red tide killer
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May 01, 2008 |
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Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have identified a potential “red tide killer.” Red tides and related phenomena in which microscopic algae accumulate rapidly in dense concentrations ...
Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change -- eventually
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Hungry, sexual organisms replaced well-fed, clonal organisms in the Caribbean Sea as the Isthmus of Panama arose, separating the Caribbean from the Pacific, report researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical ...
Researchers uncover key trigger for potent cancer-fighting marine product
Jan 04, 2008 |
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An unexpected discovery in marine biomedical laboratories at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has led to new, key information about the fundamental biological processes inside a marine organism ...
Unusually large family of green fluorescent proteins discovered in marine creature
May 20, 2009 |
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Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered a family of green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) in a primitive sea animal, along ...
Scientists discover bioluminescent 'green bombers' from the deep sea
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the latest proof that the oceans continue to offer remarkable findings and much of their vastness remains to be explored, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego ...
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