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September 23 - 25, 2013
BIT's 3rd Annual World Congress of Marine Biotechnology 2013
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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This meeting will cover topics including breakthroughs in marine biotechnology, algal biotechnology, marine natural products and valuable materials, marine bioenergy and engineering, marine resources and environment bioremediation, and applications of marine biotechnology.

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Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
Patent awarded today to NJIT for novel use of water jets to create high tensile strength alloy parts
US Patent Number 8,459,078 entitled "System and Method for Forming of Tubular Parts" discloses a method for using propellant driven water. It teaches a method in which a combustion chamber generates a gas to drive water through a tubular part with sufficient force to mold the part into the form provided by the die surrounding the high tensile strength alloy work piece.

Contact: Sheryl Weinstein
Sheryl.M.Weinstein@NJIT.edu
973-596-3436
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
NASA's TRMM Satellite sees Andrea's heavy rains in Cuba, US East Coast
The TRMM data showed rainfall totals on the order of 400 to 500 mm (~16 to 20 inches) stretching from the eastern tip of the Yucatan to western Cuba and over the southeast Gulf of Mexico.
NASA

Contact: Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
NASA satellite sees Tropical Storm Yagi just south of Japan
Tropical Storm Yagi is not expected to make landfall in Japan, but NASA satellite imagery showed that the storm was just south of the big island.
NASA

Contact: Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
Fishing for carpets
Nine thousand kilos of discarded fishing nets have been collected for recycling into carpet tiles, drastically transforming littered beaches along the Danajon Bank, Philippines.

Contact: Smita Singh
smita.singh@zsl.org
020-744-96288
Zoological Society of London

Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
PLOS Biology
Do parasites upset food web theory?
Parasites comprise a large proportion of the diversity of species in every ecosystem, but are rarely included in analyses or models of food webs. If parasites play different roles from other predators and prey, however, their inclusion could fundamentally alter our understanding of how food webs are organized. A new paper has shown that including parasites does alter the structure of food webs, but most changes occur because of an increase in diversity and complexity.

Contact: Bryan Ghosh
bghosh@plos.org
44-122-344-2837
Public Library of Science

Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
Freshwater Biology
Plunging fish numbers linked to dam releases
A Griffith University led study has thrown cold water on the notion that large dam releases compensate for the effects of interrupting natural water flows.

Contact: Helen Wright
helen.wright@griffith.edu.au
61-047-840-6565
Griffith University

Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
GSA Bulletin
7 new GSA Bulletin articles posted online ahead of print
New GSA BULLETIN articles posted online ahead of print on June 7 cover granite, granitoids, and kimberlite; Garwood Valley Antarctica; Death Valley, California, USA; Esan Volcanic Complex, Japan; and Little Lake, California, USA. Some questions addressed include how melting affects granite emplacement; "how do you bury an ancient remnant ice sheet?"; how glaciation affected the evolution of Death Valley; and the risk of eruption at the Esan Volcanic Complex.

Contact: Kea Giles
kgiles@geosociety.org
Geological Society of America

Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
Geology
Earthquake swarms; marine Ediacaran fossil traces; Alca obsidian; Mammoth Mountain
Studies in this latest batch of GEOLOGY postings cover tiny Ediacara organisms, CO2 gas following seismic swarms, the growth of Mount Everest, methane seeps, the remarkably modern character of Cretaceous seawater composition, geodynamic models of the assembly of Rodinia and Gondwana, and whether subduction zones are invading the Atlantic. Other studies cover the Danube Basin, the Andes, the Central Range of Taiwan; and the seafloor near Costa Rica. All article abstracts are open access online.

Contact: Kea Giles
kgiles@geosociety.org
Geological Society of America

Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
NASA sees Tropical Storm Yagi spinning in Western Pacific Ocean
Tropical Storm Yagi developed over the weekend of June 8 and 9 in the Western North Pacific from Tropical Depression 03W and NASA satellites captured the storm coming together.
NASA

Contact: Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
NASA animation sees Post-Tropical Storm Andrea speed away
Post-Tropical cyclone Andrea's remnants sped into the North Atlantic Ocean over the weekend of June 8 and 9.
NASA

Contact: Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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