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Key: Meeting
Showing releases 76-100 out of 108 releases.
Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
Scientists outline planetary boundaries: A safe operating space for humanity New approaches are needed to help humanity deal with climate change and other global environmental threats that lie ahead in the 21st century, according to a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists. Contact: Gail Gallessich
Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
 NatureGlobal warming may dent El Niņo's protective shield from Atlantic hurricanes, increase droughts El Niņo, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the US and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific due to global warming, according to an article in the Sept. 24 issue of the journal Nature. Could lead to more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic, increased opportunity for droughts in Australia and India. Contact: Barbra Gonzalez
Public Release: 21-Sep-2009
Ocean observing scientists and marine industries teaming up to sustainably monitor the water column The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research and International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans have established the OceanScope Working Group to systematically study the oceanic water column. The goal is to create a global network of ocean observation platforms on commercial ships. Royal Caribbean's partnership with the University of Miami and NOAA aboard Explorer of the Seas, the first-ever oceanographic and atmospheric lab aboard a passenger cruise ship, will be used as a pilot for OceanScope. 
Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, International Association for the Physical Sciences
Contact: Barbra Gonzalez
Public Release: 18-Sep-2009
Small gems in space A combination of small satellites can, with innovative methods, use the signals of the navigation satellite systems GPS and Galileo to significantly improve remote sensing of the System Earth. Contact: F. Ossing
Public Release: 17-Sep-2009
NOAA announces an experimental harmful algal bloom forecast bulletin for Lake Erie Predicting harmful algal blooms, or HABs, in the Great Lakes is now a reality as NOAA announces an experimental HAB forecast system in Lake Erie. HABs produce toxins that may pose a significant risk to human and animal health through water recreation and may form scum that are unsightly and odorous to beach visitors, impacting the coastal economy. Contact: John Ewald
Public Release: 17-Sep-2009
Arctic sea ice reaches minimum extent for 2009, third lowest ever recorded The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the third-lowest recorded since satellites began measuring sea ice extent in 1979, according to the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.
NASA
Contact: Katherine Leitzell
Public Release: 16-Sep-2009
Hydrographic Services Review Panel MeetingHydrographic services review panel meeting, Sept. 23-24 in Duluth, Minn. The NOAA Hydrographic Services Review Panel will meet September 23-24 in Duluth, Minn., to discuss operations, research and development, hydrographic surveying, nautical charting, and geodetic and geospatial measurements. The panel is a Federal Advisory Committee that advises the NOAA Administrator on carrying out NOAA's Navigation Services mission. Contact: John Ewald
Public Release: 16-Sep-2009
New project to forecast toxic algal blooms on Pacific Northwest beaches NOAA and the National Science Foundation have awarded $824,225 in competitive funds for the first year of an anticipated four-year $2.8 million project to develop early warning forecast models for toxic harmful algal blooms, or HABs, on Pacific Northwest beaches. Funds were awarded to the University of Washington and the University of California at Santa Cruz through the interagency Ecology program. Contact: John Ewald
Public Release: 16-Sep-2009
New research to unravel how nutrients drive toxic 'brown tides' on East Coast NOAA has awarded Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $120,000 as part of an anticipated three-year, nearly $500,000 project, to determine how nitrogen and phosphorus promote brown tides on the East Coast. Funds were awarded through the interagency Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms program. Contact: John Ewald
Public Release: 14-Sep-2009
Digging deeper below Antarctica's Lake Vida Two UIC geoscientists will lead an exploration of Antarctica's perpetually ice-covered Lake Vida, site of one of the most extreme environments on Earth for living organisms. The team will drill through the lake's ice cap, and take the first-ever samples of the underlying brine and sediment.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Paul Francuch
Public Release: 10-Sep-2009
Seaglider sets new underwater endurance and range records A University of Washington Seaglider operated for nine months and five days in the Pacific Ocean, an endurance record more than double what any other autonomous underwater vehicle has accomplished on a single mission. During that time it propelled itself a distance equivalent to crossing the Atlantic Ocean from New England to Europe, without periods of drifting with currents and while continually diving to collect data.
US Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Sandra Hines
Public Release: 10-Sep-2009
NRL brings new hyperspectral atmospheric and ocean science to the International Space Station NRL's Remote Sensing and Space Science Divisions and the Naval Center for Space Technology provide the first-ever high quality and real-time monitoring of space weather and coastal ocean environment directly from the new Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility on the International Space Station. A complex series of maneuvers, involving both the ISS and the JEM-EF manipulator arms, will transfer HREP from the vehicle to its deployment station on the JEM-EF. Contact: Daniel Parry
Public Release: 9-Sep-2009
NOAA locates US Navy ship sunk in World War II battle A NOAA-led research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a US Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, by a German submarine during World War II. Contact: John Ewald
Public Release: 9-Sep-2009
New robot travels across the seafloor to monitor the impact of climate change on deep-sea ecosystems Like the robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which wheeled tirelessly across the dusty surface of Mars, a new robot spent most of July traveling across the muddy ocean bottom, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) off the California coast. This robot, the Benthic Rover, has been providing scientists with an entirely new view of life on the deep seafloor. It will also give scientists a way to document the effects of climate change on the deep sea.
National Science Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Contact: Kim Fulton-Bennett
Public Release: 9-Sep-2009
ESA campaign reveals glimpse of future Sentinel-3 imagery As part of the development process for ESA's Sentinel-3 Earth observation mission, remote-sensing experts carried out an extensive experiment campaign across southern Europe this summer. The results provide valuable insight into the imagery the mission will deliver after it is launched in 2013. Contact: Mariangela D'Acunto
Public Release: 7-Sep-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNew genomic model defines microbes by diet -- provides tool for tracking environmental change Through a novel genomic approach detailed in the Sept. 7 online edition and on the cover Sept. 14 of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of scientists led by the University of New South Wales and the DOE JGI demonstrates how the microbial diversity of the oceans can be analyzed without necessarily cultivating samples in the laboratory. Contact: David Gilbert
Public Release: 7-Sep-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesHalf of the fish consumed globally is now raised on farms, study finds Aquaculture, once a fledgling industry, now accounts for 50 percent of the fish consumed globally, according to a new report by an international team of researchers. And while the industry is more efficient than ever, it is also putting a significant strain on marine resources by consuming large amounts of feed made from wild fish harvested from the sea, the authors conclude.
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Contact: Mark Shwartz
Public Release: 4-Sep-2009
Scientists return from first ever riser drilling operations in seismogenic zone The deep-sea drilling vessel CHIKYU successfully completed riser drilling operations on August 31, for IODP Expedition 319, Stage 2, of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment. The CHIKYU is operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in partnership with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. Expedition 319 marks the first riser drilling in the history of the scientific ocean drilling program, and the first subseafloor observatory operations for NanTroSEIZE. Contact: Raesah Et'Tawil
Public Release: 3-Sep-2009
ScienceLong-term cooling trend in Arctic abruptly reverses, signaling potential for sea rise A new study led by Northern Arizona University and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates Arctic temperatures have reversed from a long-term cooling trend and are now the warmest they have been in at least 2,000 years, bad news for the world's coastal cities facing rising seas in the coming decades.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Gifford Miller
Public Release: 2-Sep-2009
UC San Diego to develop ocean observing cyberinfrastructure The US 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 to examine ocean processes on global, regional and coastal scales.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Douglas Ramsey
Public Release: 2-Sep-2009
NatureDenitrification, its importance once diluted, may be back on top, Princeton-led team says After more than a decade of inquiry, a Princeton-led team of scientists has turned the tables on a long-standing controversy to re-establish an old truth about nitrogen mixing in the oceans.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Emily Aronson
Public Release: 2-Sep-2009
Bulletin of Marine SciencesNOAA scientists map fish habitat and movements at Gray's Reef Marine Sanctuary Two related research expeditions by NOAA scientists to track the habitat preferences and movements of fish at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary may help managers protect overfished species such as red snapper and grouper. Research from the two expeditions appears in the current online edition of the peer-reviewed Bulletin of Marine Sciences. Contact: John Ewald
Public Release: 2-Sep-2009
NOAA report explains sea level anomaly this summer along the US Atlantic coast Persistent winds and a weakened current in the Mid-Atlantic contributed to higher than normal sea levels along the Eastern Seaboard in June and July, according to a new NOAA technical report. Contact: John Ewald
Public Release: 1-Sep-2009
PNNL to lead environmental impacts study on marine, river power The US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive more than $6.8 million over three years to advance the production of renewable power from the natural movement of oceans and rivers. The bulk of the funding -- $3.45 million, or $1.15 million per year -- allows PNNL to lead a project that will examine the environmental impacts of marine and hydrokinetic power.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Franny White
Public Release: 1-Sep-2009
Geophysical Research LettersSatellites and submarines give the skinny on sea ice thickness This summer, a group of scientists and students -- as well as a Canadian senator, a writer, and a filmmaker -- set out from Resolute Bay, Canada, on the icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. They were headed through the Northwest Passage, but instead of opening shipping lanes in the ice, they had gathered to open up new lines of thinking on Arctic science.
NASA
Contact: Alan Buis
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