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Showing releases 151-175 out of 432 releases.
Public Release: 30-Jul-2009
 ScienceNew analysis of global fisheries data suggests marine ecosystems can recover An international team of scientists with divergent views on ocean ecosystems has found that efforts to rebuild many of the world's fisheries are worthwhile and starting to pay off in many places around the world. Their study puts into perspective recent reports predicting a total collapse of global fisheries within 40 years. Contact: Shelley Dawicki
Public Release: 30-Jul-2009
Statement from the Pew Environment Group on the Hilborn/Worm study published in Science Rebecca Goldburg, director of Marine Science at the Pew Environment Group, issued the following statement today in response to a paper published in the journal Science. Contact: Jo Knight
Public Release: 30-Jul-2009
Successful completion of first riser-drilling operations in earthquake zone The deep-sea drilling vessel CHIKYU has drilled successfully down to a depth of 1,603.7 meters beneath the seafloor (water depth 2,054 meters). It is drilling deep into the upper portion of the Nankai Trough earthquake zone to gain insights into geological formations and stress-strain characteristics. The operations began on May 12; the science party is expected to complete the first drill site on or about August 1. 
National Science Foundation, Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, European Consortium of Ocean Research Drilling, People's Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Australia, India, New Zealand
Contact: Dr Rory Howlett
Public Release: 30-Jul-2009
Scientific DrillingResearchers report successful riser-drilling operations in seismogenic zone For the first time in the history of scientific ocean drilling, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program conducted operations using the riser capabilities of the Japan-sponsored research vessel, CHIKYU, to successfully drill down to a depth of 1,603.7 meters beneath the sea floor (at water depth of 2,054 meters), in an earthquake-generating zone.
National Science Foundation, Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology
Contact: Nancy Light
Public Release: 29-Jul-2009
Palaeogeoraphy, Palaeocilmatology, PalaeoecologyDouglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change Scientists are comparing annual growth rings of the Pacific Northwest's largest bivalve and its most iconic tree for clues to how living organisms may have responded to changes in climate. Contact: Bryan Black
Public Release: 29-Jul-2009
GeologyScientists discover Amazon river is 11 million years old Researchers at the University of Liverpool have discovered that the Amazon river, and its transcontinental drainage, is around 11 million years old and took its present shape about 2.4 million years ago. Contact: Sarah Stamper
Public Release: 29-Jul-2009
NatureCaltech researchers link tiny sea creatures to large-scale ocean mixing Using a combination of theoretical modeling, energy calculations, and field observations, researchers from the California Institute of Technology have for the first time described a mechanism that explains how some of the ocean's tiniest swimming animals can have a huge impact on large-scale ocean mixing.
National Science Foundation, US Office of Naval Research, US Department of Defense, Charles Lee Powell Foundation
Contact: Kathy Svitil
Public Release: 27-Jul-2009
Smaller than expected, but severe, dead zone in Gulf of Mexico NOAA-supported scientists, led by Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, found the size of this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square miles. However the dead zone, which is usually limited to water just above the sea floor, was severe where it did occur, extending closer to the water surface then in most years.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Ben Sherman
Public Release: 22-Jul-2009
Geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute back from an expedition to Labrador Sea Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have researched the geology of the seabed in the Labrador Sea on board of RV Maria S. Merian. They have studied the so-called Eirik Drift at the southern tip of Greenland, a structure of several hundred kilometers length formed like a ridge. They discovered a submarine mountain (seamount) at the southwestern fringe of their area of investigation that indicates volcanic eruptions during the past few million years. Contact: Dr. Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben
Public Release: 21-Jul-2009
PLoS ONEScripps-led study shows ocean health plays vital role in coral reef recovery A new study shows that bleached corals bounce back to normal growth rates more quickly when they have clean water and plentiful sea life at their side. Contact: Annie Reisewitz or Robert Monroe
Public Release: 20-Jul-2009
Overfishing and evolution Using snorkelers and SCUBA divers is not the best way to monitor fish populations, if we want to know the evolutionary effects of overfishing. Contact: Kathleen Wets
Public Release: 20-Jul-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesCalifornia's Channel Islands hold evidence of Clovis-age comets A 17-member team has found what may be the smoking gun of a much-debated proposal that a cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago ripped through North America and drove multiple species into extinction.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Barlow
Public Release: 16-Jul-2009
ScienceResearch indicates ocean current shutdown may be gradual The findings of a major new study are consistent with gradual changes of current systems in the North Atlantic Ocean, rather than a more sudden shutdown that could lead to rapid climate changes in Europe and elsewhere.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Peter Clark
Public Release: 16-Jul-2009
Science'Motion picture' of past warming paves way for snapshots of future climate change By accurately modeling Earth's last major global warming -- and answering pressing questions about its causes -- scientists led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison climatologist are unraveling the intricacies of the kind of abrupt climate shifts that may occur in the future.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Zhengyu Liu
Public Release: 15-Jul-2009
FSU scientists unveil new seasonal hurricane forecasting model Scientists at the Florida State University's Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies have developed a new computer model that they hope will predict with unprecedented accuracy how many hurricanes will occur in a given season. Contact: Tim LaRow
Public Release: 15-Jul-2009
Could cannon balls from the early 19th century sink warships? A joint experiment carried out by researchers from the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa and staff of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. has solved the riddle that has been puzzling researchers ever since they first observed the thick wooden sides of the sunken ship opposite the shore of Acre: could cannon fire have penetrated the hull? Contact: Rachel Feldman
Public Release: 15-Jul-2009
NatureEarly initiation of Arctic sea-ice formation Significant sea ice formation occurred in the Arctic earlier than previously thought is the conclusion of a study published this week in Nature. "The results are also especially exciting because they suggest that sea ice formed in the Arctic before it did in Antarctica, which goes against scientific expectation," says scientific team member Dr. Richard Pearce of the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science based at the National Oceanography Center, Southampton.
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, StatoilHydro, Research Council of Norway
Contact: Dr. Rory Howlett
Public Release: 14-Jul-2009
Environmental ConservationNegligible impact on public safety from shark cage diving operations A study by five university researchers, including four from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, concludes that existing shark cage diving enterprises in Hawaii have a negligible effect on public safety. The paper, "Seasonable cycles and long-term trends in abundance and species composition of sharks associated with cage diving ecotourism activities in Hawaii," is authored by Carl G. Meyer, Jonathan J. Dale, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Nicholas M. Whitney and Kim N. Holland, and has been published in the online section of Environmental Conservation. Contact: Carl G. Meyer
Public Release: 14-Jul-2009
OceanographyScientists report first remote, underwater detection of harmful algae, toxins Scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have successfully conducted the first remote detection of a harmful algal species and its toxin below the ocean's surface. The achievement was recently reported in the June issue of Oceanography.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, National Oceanographic Partnership Program, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, National Science Foundation
Contact: Ben Sherman
Public Release: 14-Jul-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesSurviving mass extinction by leading a double life Drifting across the world's oceans are a group of unicellular marine microorganisms that are not only a crucial source of food for other marine life -- but their fossils, which are found in abundance, provide scientists with an extraordinary record of climatic change and other major events in the history of the Earth. Contact: Dr. Chris Wade
Public Release: 13-Jul-2009
NOAA bans commercial harvesting of krill The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today published a final rule in the Federal Register prohibiting the harvesting of krill in the Exclusive Economic Zone off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington. The rule goes into effect on August 12, 2009. Krill are a small shrimp-like crustacean and a key source of nutrition in the marine food web.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Jim Milbury
Public Release: 10-Jul-2009
Between the devil and the deep blue sea Coastal "squeeze" traps coastal people between the "Devil and the Deep blue sea", around 45 percent of the world population now lives in coastal zones that represent only 5 percent of the land surface. We are suffering from a "global, coastal syndrome" is the conclusion of an international and interdisciplinary group of coastal scientists invited recently to Oslo by the global LOICZ project. Contact: Dr. Hartwig Kremer
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
Marine Ecology Progress SeriesUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa professor published in science journal Dr. Craig R. Smith, oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, recently published a paper in Marine Ecology Progress Series titled, "Biogeochemistry of a deep-sea whale fall: sulfate, reduction, sulfide efflux and methanogenesis." Contact: Dr. Craig R. Smith
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
Journal of Conservation LettersNew study ranks 'hotspots' of human impact on coastal areas Coastal marine ecosystems are at risk worldwide as a result of human activities, according to scientists at UC Santa Barbara who have recently published a study in the Journal of Conservation Letters. The authors have performed the first integrated analysis of all coastal areas of the world. Contact: Gail Gallessich
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
NatureArctic climate under greenhouse conditions in the Late Cretaceous New evidence for ice-free summers with intermittent winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretaceous -- a period of greenhouse conditions -- gives a glimpse of how the Arctic is likely to respond to future global warming.
Natural Environment Research Council
Contact: Rory Howlett
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