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Public Release: 21-Oct-2012
 Nature PhotonicsHow a fish broke a law of physics Silvery fish such as herring, sardine and sprat are breaking a basic law of physics, according to new research from the University of Bristol published today in Nature Photonics. Contact: Hannah Johnson
Public Release: 19-Oct-2012
Ecology and EvolutionAncient DNA sheds light on Arctic whale mysteries Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, City University of New York, and other organizations have published the first range-wide genetic analysis of the bowhead whale using hundreds of samples from both modern populations and archaeological sites used by indigenous Arctic hunters thousands of years ago. Contact: John Delaney
Public Release: 18-Oct-2012
GeologyFrom the Alps to the Deep Mantle Geology articles posted online ahead of print this month survey topography, minerals, faults and tectonics, alluvium, modeling, snowball Earth, fossils and extinction, and pyrite-filled worm burrows. One notable study provides a new eruption date for the Salton Buttes (Calif., USA) of 30,000 years later than that determined by earlier studies, coinciding with the appearance of the earliest known obsidian tools there. Contact: Kea Giles
Public Release: 18-Oct-2012
ScienceTropical collapse caused by lethal heat Almost no life survived in the Early Triassic for 5 million years. Scientists show for the first time that sea-level temperatures in the Tropics reached 40 deg C. 
Chinese Science Foundation
Contact: Esther Harward
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
NatureWhy are coastal salt marshes falling apart? Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the US Eastern Seaboard and other highly developed coastlines without anyone fully understanding why.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
2012 SIAM Annual MeetingMathematics and the ocean: Movement, mixing and climate modeling Emily Shuckburgh of the British Atlantic Survey described mathematical ideas from dynamical systems along with numerical modeling and experimental observations to analyze mixing in the ocean. Contact: Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
Environmental Science and PolicyCoral reefs and food security: Study shows nations at risk A new study co-authored by the Wildlife Conservation Society identifies countries most vulnerable to declining coral reef fisheries from a food-security perspective while providing a framework to plan for alternative protein sources needed to replace declining fisheries. Contact: Stephen Sautner
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
Nature Climate ChangeToo late to stop global warming by cutting emissions Governments and institutions should focus on developing adaption policies to address and mitigate against the negative impact of global warming, rather than putting the emphasis on carbon trading and capping greenhouse-gas emissions, argue Johannesburg-based Wits University geoscientist Dr. Jasper Knight and Dr. Stephan Harrison from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Contact: Erna van Wyk
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
NatureLSU research team shows negative impact of nutrients on coastal ecosystems LSU's John Fleeger, professor emeritus in LSU's Department of Biological Sciences, is part of a multidisciplinary national research group that recently discovered the impact of nutrient enrichment on salt marsh ecosystems is marsh loss and that such loss is seen much faster than previously thought. Contact: Ashley Berthelot
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
PLOS ONEDolphins can remain alert for up to 15 days at a time with no sign of fatigue Dolphins sleep with only one half of their brains at a time, and according to new research published Oct. 17 in the open access journal PLOS ONE, this trait allows them to stay constantly alert for at least 15 days in a row. Contact: Jyoti Madhusoodanan
Public Release: 16-Oct-2012
Shark social networking University of Delaware researchers are using an underwater robot to find and follow sand tiger sharks that they previously tagged with transmitters. The innovative project is part of a multi-year partnership with Delaware State University to better understand the behavior and migration patterns of the sharks in real time. Contact: Andrea Boyle Tippett
Public Release: 16-Oct-2012
1 by land and 1 by sea NASA's Operation IceBridge got the 2012 Antarctic campaign off to a productive start with a land ice survey of Thwaites Glacier and a sea ice flight over parts of the Bellingshausen Sea.
NASA
Contact: George Hale
Public Release: 16-Oct-2012
Nature GeoscienceIce sheet retreat controlled by the landscape Ice-sheet retreat can halt temporarily during long phases of climate warming, according to scientists.
Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom
Contact: Carl Stiansen
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
U-M, other universities launch Great Lakes protection project The University of Michigan and 20 other US and Canadian universities will join forces to propose a set of long-term research and policy priorities to help protect and restore the Great Lakes and to train the next generation of scientists, attorneys, planners and policy specialists who will study them.
University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, State University of New York at Buffalo, Guelph University
Contact: Jim Erickson
Public Release: 14-Oct-2012
Nature Climate ChangeToo much of a good thing can be bad for corals New study by Univ. of Miami Researchers Ross Cunning and Andrew Bake in Nature Climate Change reveals that having too many algal symbionts makes corals bleach more severely in response to warming.
Pew Fellows, National Science Foundation, University of Miami Fellowship, National Science Foundation Grad Research Fellowship
Contact: Barbra Gonzalez, UM Rosenstiel School
Public Release: 12-Oct-2012
Scientific ReportsScientists uncover diversion of Gulf Stream path in late 2011 The Gulf Stream made an unusual move well north of its normal path in late October and early November 2011, causing warmer-than-usual ocean temperatures along the New England continental shelf, according to physical oceanographers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
National Science Foundation, CINAR, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contact: WHOI Media Relations
Public Release: 11-Oct-2012
Journal of Geophysical ResearchDocumented decrease in frequency of Hawaii's northeast trade winds Scientists at University of Hawaii at Manoa have observed a decrease in the frequency of northeast trade winds and an increase in eastern trade winds over the past nearly four decades, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, NOAA
Contact: Marcie Grabowski
Public Release: 11-Oct-2012
OryxFisheries benefit from 400-year-old tradition A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and James Cook University says that coral reefs in Aceh, Indonesia are benefiting from a decidedly low-tech, traditional management system that dates back to the 17th century. Contact: Stephen Sautner
Public Release: 11-Oct-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArctic and Southern Oceans appear to determine the composition of microbial populations Differing contributions of freshwater from glaciers and streams to the Arctic and Southern oceans appear to be responsible for the fact that the majority of microbial communities that thrive near the surface at the Poles share few common members, according to an international team of researchers, some of whom were supported by the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Peter West
Public Release: 11-Oct-2012
BioScienceTechniques used to infer pathways of protein evolution found unreliable Biologists have published thousands of papers that used statistical techniques to infer the likely evolutionary paths that led to the present-day forms of proteins. But careful experimental studies of the properties of reconstructed ancestral forms of visual pigments and variants created by mutation suggest that core simplifying assumptions used in the statistical approaches are unreliable and make the approaches unable to identify the actual paths.
National Institutes of Health, Emory University
Contact: Tim Beardsley
Public Release: 10-Oct-2012
CU-Boulder wins $1.4 million NSF award for climate change, water sustainability study The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $1.4 million for a new study on how changes in land use, forest management and climate may affect trans-basin water diversions in Colorado and other semi-arid regions in the western United States.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Noah Molotch
Public Release: 10-Oct-2012
Scientific ReportsStudy shows small fish can play a big role in coastal carbon cycle Research shows that small forage fish like anchovies can transport carbon into the deep sea through their fecal pellets -- where it contributes nothing to current global warming.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Malmquist
Public Release: 10-Oct-2012
Return to Bremerhaven Polarstern is expected back from the Central Arctic expedition "IceArc" in Bremerhaven on 8 October 2012 after a good two months. 54 scientists and technicians from twelve different countries conducted research on the retreat of the sea ice and the consequences for the Arctic Ocean and its ecosystems over a period of two months in the High North. Contact: Dr Folke Mehrtens
Public Release: 10-Oct-2012
Science of the Total EnvironmentHalving food losses would feed an additional billion people More efficient use of the food production chain and a decrease in the amount of food losses will dramatically help maintaining the planet's natural resources and improve people's lives. Researchers in Aalto University, Finland, have proved a valid estimation, for the first time, for how many people could be fed with reducing food losses. An additional one billion people can be fed, if the food losses could be halved.
Maa- ja vesitekniikan tuki ry, IWT Flanders and NWO, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Contact: Matti Kummu
Public Release: 10-Oct-2012
Journal of Physics D: Applied PhysicsGlaciers cracking in the presence of carbon dioxide New research, published today, Oct. 11, in IOP Publishing's Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, has shown that CO2 molecules may be having a more direct impact on the ice that covers our planet. Contact: Michael Bishop
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