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Key: Meeting
Showing releases 1-25 out of 425 releases.
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
 Geological Society of America BulletinPast climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which appears to show that the current warming and widespread loss of glacial ice are unprecedented. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Dr. Rory Howlett
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Geophysical Research LettersAGU journal highlights -- Nov. 5, 2009 Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Antarctica warming a regional, not local, trend"; "New model factors storms into shoreline loss"; "Study agrees reservoir contributed to Wenchuan earthquake"; "Much Arctic warming linked to sea-ice, cloud-cover changes"; "Sorting out natural from human influences in ocean warming"; and "Meteoritic impacts may have cooked up life's components." Contact: Maria-Jose Vinas
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Coral reefs inspire rare consensus -- just save them One of the first set of studies to examine what tourists and recreation enthusiasts actually think about coral reef ecosystems suggests they are a rare exception to controversies over human use versus environmental conservation -- their stunning beauty is so extraordinary that almost everyone wants them protected in perpetuity.
Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative
Contact: Mark Needham
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Massive Antarctic project takes Montana State University to one of Earth's final frontiers An "unparalleled opportunity" to drill through the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica and explore the world underneath it will involve Montana State University faculty and current and former students over the next five years.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Evelyn Boswell
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Space and the Arctic WorkshopTackling new Arctic challenges from space International scientists, researchers and decision makers met at the Space and the Arctic workshop to identify the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing Arctic and to explore how space-based services can help to meet those needs. Contact: Mariangela D'Acunto
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
Community education and evacuation planning saved lives in Sept. 29 Samoan tsunami Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month. Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, the team collected data to document the impacts of the earthquake and ensuing tsunami that occurred on Sept. 29.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nancy Fullbright
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
Gems & GemologyScientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch In their natural form, conch pearls are among the rarest pearls in the world. For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch have been unsuccessful -- until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded and nonbeaded high-quality cultured pearls from the queen conch have been developed by scientists from FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Contact: Gisele Galoustian
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the Royal Society BTags reveal white sharks have neighborhoods in the north Pacific, say Stanford researchers A tracking study of white sharks in the northeastern Pacific Ocean shows they adhere to a rigid route of migration across the sea, returning to precisely the same spot along the California coast each time they come back, according to a team of researchers including some from Stanford University. Over time, this behavior has made the population in the northeastern Pacific genetically distinct from other white shark populations.
Sloan Foundation, Packard Foundation, Moore Foundation, Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation
Contact: Louis Bergeron
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
SMOS forms 3-pointed star in the sky Following the launch of ESA's SMOS satellite on Nov. 2, the French space agency CNES, which is responsible for operating the satellite, has confirmed that the instrument's three antenna arms have deployed as planned, and that the instrument is in good health. Contact: Robert Meisner
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
International Academy for Production Engineering MeetingK-State engineers strive to make algae oil production more feasible The idea by Kansas State University's Wenqiao "Wayne" Yuan and Zhijian "Z.J." Pei is to grow algae in the ocean on very large, supporting platforms. Contact: Wenqiao "Wayne" Yuan
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
Global Biogeochemical CyclesMapping nutrient distributions over the Atlantic Ocean Large-scale distributions of two important nutrient pools -- dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus (DON and DOP) have been systematically mapped for the first time over the Atlantic Ocean in a study led by Dr. Sinhue Torres-Valdes of the National Oceanography Center, Southampton. The findings have important implications for understanding nitrogen and phosphorus biogeochemical cycles and the biological carbon pump in the Atlantic Ocean.
Natural Environment Research Council
Contact: Dr. Rory Howlett
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesDeep-sea ecosystems affected by climate change The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling. Based on long-term studies of two such areas, a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that animal communities on the abyssal seafloor are affected in a variety of ways by climate change.
National Science Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, European Union, Natural Environment Research Council
Contact: Kim Fulton-Bennett
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Marine Ecology Progress SeriesNorth Atlantic fish populations shifting as ocean temperatures warm About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from US waters as they move farther offshore, according to a new study by NOAA researchers.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Shelley Dawicki
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Geophysical Research LettersAfrican desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making 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 apart, but the claim was controversial. Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at the bottom of the world's oceans. Contact: Jonathan Sherwood
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesClimate variability impacts the deep sea Deep-sea ecosystems occupying 60 percent of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming warn scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
National Science Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, European Union, Natural Environment Research Council
Contact: Dr. Rory Howlett
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Nature GeoscienceIron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic Scientists including researchers from the National Oceanography Center, Southampton and the University of Essex have discovered that interactions between iron supply, transported through the atmosphere from deserts, and large-scale oceanic circulation control the availability of a crucial nutrient, nitrogen, in the Atlantic. Their findings have potentially important implications for understanding global climate, both past and future.
European Union Carboocean, Natural Environment Research Council, Atlantic Meridional Transect Consortium
Contact: Dr Rory Howlett
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
SMOS satellite successfully launched A rocket carrying the European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite blasted off successfully today. Professor Meric Srokosz of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has been involved in the project since its inception. He said: "Obviously, I am excited and absolutely delighted that the launch has gone to plan. I am now looking forward to using data from the satellite in my research." Contact: Dr. Rory Howlett
Public Release: 31-Oct-2009
NOAA awards $2.4 million to refine management strategies for the northern Gulf of Mexico dead zone Scientists researching the causes and impacts of the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico have been awarded more than $2.4 million for the first year of an anticipated $12 million multi-year NOAA research investment.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: John Ewald
Public Release: 31-Oct-2009
NOAA and Smithsonian project to improve Chesapeake and Delaware bays' nearshore habitat management NOAA has awarded the Smithsonian Institution's Environmental Research Center and several partner organizations $946,000 for the first year of an anticipated five-year, $5 million collaborative project to study the degradation of nearshore coastal habitats in the Chesapeake and Delaware bays.
NOAA, Smithsonian Institution
Contact: John Ewald
Public Release: 31-Oct-2009
NOAA, the Nature Conservancy address coral reef threats NOAA and the Nature Conservancy have entered into an agreement to protect the health of the nation's valuable but increasingly vulnerable coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean, Florida, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. The four-year agreement will dedicate $3.6 million in NOAA funding and $3.6 million in matching funds from The Nature Conservancy to address the top three threats facing coral reef ecosystems: climate change, overfishing, and land-based sources of pollution.
NOAA, Nature Conservancy
Contact: John Ewald
Public Release: 30-Oct-2009
HyBIS explores the Casablanca seamount In October, the hydraulic benthic interactive sampler HyBIS maintained by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton made 10 dives over the Casablanca Seamount, a four-kilometer high seamount located some 300 miles west of Morocco.
Natural Environment Research Council
Contact: Dr. Rory Howlett
Public Release: 29-Oct-2009
ScienceA new wrinkle in ancient ocean chemistry A research team led by University of California, Riverside geoscientists has corroborated evidence that oxygen production began in Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). The researchers analyzed 2.5 billion-year-old black shales, which revealed that episodes of hydrogen sulfide accumulation in the oxygen-free deep ocean occurred nearly 100 million years before the GOE. Scientists have long believed that the early ocean was characterized by high amounts of dissolved iron.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
Public Release: 28-Oct-2009
Remotely operated vehicles and satellite tags aid turtle studies Researchers are using a remotely operated vehicle and satellite-linked data loggers to learn more about turtle behavior in commercial fishing areas and to develop new ways to avoid catching turtles in fishing gear. This marks the first time an ROV has been used to follow turtles in the wild to learn about their behavior and how they interact with their habitat.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishing Industry
Contact: Shelley Dawicki
Public Release: 28-Oct-2009
Follow the launch of ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites are scheduled for launch on Monday, Nov. 2, at 02:50 CET on a Russian Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. Contact: Robert Meisner
Public Release: 28-Oct-2009
Autosub6000 dives to depth of 3.5 miles The United Kingdom's deepest diving Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Autosub6000, has been put through its paces during an extremely successful engineering trials cruise on the RRS Discovery, Sept. 27 to Oct. 17, 2009. Contact: Dr. Rory Howlett
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