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Key: Meeting
Showing releases 226-250 out of 426 releases.
Public Release: 24-May-2009
Oceans Past IIOcean life in olden days: Researchers upend modern notions of 'natural' animal sizes, abundance Using such diverse sources as old ship logs, literary texts, tax accounts, newly translated legal documents and even mounted trophies, Census of Marine Life researchers are piecing together images -- some flickering, others in high definition -- of fish of such sizes, abundance and distribution in ages past that they stagger modern imaginations. They are also documenting the timelines over which those giant marine life populations declined. Contact: Terry Collins
Public Release: 21-May-2009
 Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaThieving whale caught on video gives rare clues about hunting strategy, sound production A marine mammal videotaped stealing fish provides information about animal's physical features. Contact: Mario Aguilera
Public Release: 21-May-2009
International Marine Conservation CongressNew NOAA report offers in-depth look at Northwestern Hawaiian islands marine life, ecosystems A new NOAA report on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, protected by the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, provides the sharpest picture yet of the region's marine life and ecosystems. Prepared by NOAA's National Center for Coastal Ocean Science, the report, "A Marine Biogeographic Assessment of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands," examines the geographic distribution of the island chain's marine life and habitats, and the conditions that determine where they are found. 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Keeley Belva
Public Release: 20-May-2009
157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of AmericaEndangered right whales found where presumed extinct Using a system of underwater hydrophones that can record sounds from hundreds of miles away, a team of scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has documented the presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an area they were thought to be extinct.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: David Mellinger
Public Release: 20-May-2009
Environmental PollutionSkip this cocktail party The most extensive study of pollutants in marine mammals' brains reveals that these animals are exposed to a hazardous cocktail of pesticides such as DDTs and PCBs, as well as emerging contaminants such as brominated flame retardants. Contact: Media Relations
Public Release: 20-May-2009
DFG establishes 14 new research training groups Doctoral Researchers To Earn Doctorates in Topics such as Globalisation, Nanostructures and Civil Security Applications in Structured Programmes
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact: Marco Finetti
Public Release: 20-May-2009
NatureAsteroid attack 3.9 billion years ago may have enhanced early life on Earth, says CU-Boulder study The bombardment of Earth nearly 4 billion years ago by asteroids as large as Kansas would not have had the firepower to extinguish potential early life on the planet and may even have given it a boost, says a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.
NASA
Contact: Oleg Abramov
Public Release: 19-May-2009
Marine Ecology Progress SeriesStanford scientists find heat-tolerant coral reefs that may resist climate change Experts say that more than half of the world's coral reefs could disappear in the next 50 years, in large part because of higher ocean temperatures caused by climate change. But now Stanford University scientists have found evidence that some coral reefs are adapting and may actually survive global warming.
Stanford University, Conservation International, Stanford Bio-X Program
Contact: Mark Shwartz
Public Release: 18-May-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArctic river deltas may hold clues to future global climate Scientists struggling to understand how Earth's climate will change in the next few decades have neglected a potential treasure trove of information -- sediments deposited in the ocean by major Arctic rivers such as the Colville and Mackenzie rivers.
NASA, US Department of Energy, US Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Mead Allison
Public Release: 14-May-2009
ScienceThreat from West Antarctica less than previously believed The potential contribution to sea level rise from a collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet have been greatly overestimated, according to a new study published in the journal Science.
National Environmental Research Council
Contact: Joanne Fryer
Public Release: 13-May-2009
NatureStudy finds surprising new pathway for North Atlantic circulation Oceanographers have long known that the 20-year-old paradigm for describing the global ocean circulation -- called the Great Ocean Conveyor -- was an oversimplification. It's a useful depiction, but it's like describing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as a catchy tune.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Media Relations
Public Release: 13-May-2009
Environmental Science & TechnologyNatural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills A new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of California, Santa Barbara is the first to quantify the amount of oil residue in seafloor sediments that result from natural petroleum seeps off Santa Barbara, Calif.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Seaver Institute
Contact: Stephanie Murphy
Public Release: 13-May-2009
World Ocean Conference 2009WWF study says climate change could displace millions in Asia's Coral Triangle Coral reefs could disappear entirely from the Coral Triangle region of the Pacific Ocean by the end of the century, threatening the food supply and livelihoods for about 100 million people, according to a new study from World Wildlife Fund. Averting catastrophe will depend on quick and effective global action on climate change coupled with the implementation of regional solutions to problems of over-fishing and pollution.
World Wildlife Fund
Contact: Lee Poston
Public Release: 13-May-2009
Environmental Science & TechnologyUCSB scientists document fate of huge oil slicks from seeps at coal oil point Twenty years ago, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez was exiting Alaska's Prince William Sound when it struck a reef in the middle of the night. What happened next is considered one of the nation's worst environmental disasters: 10.8 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the pristine Alaskan waters, eventually covering 11,000 square miles of ocean. Contact: George Foulsham
Public Release: 13-May-2009
NatureCold water ocean circulation doesn't work as expected The familiar model of Atlantic ocean currents that shows a discrete "conveyor belt" of deep, cold water flowing southward from the Labrador Sea is probably all wet.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Monte Basgall
Public Release: 12-May-2009
NASA Earth System Science at 20: Accomplishments, Plans and ChallengesNASA Earth system science meeting celebrates 20 years of discovery Twenty years ago NASA embarked on a revolutionary new mission for its Earth science program: to study our home planet from space as an inter-related whole, rather than as individual parts. To acknowledge this milestone, NASA is holding a symposium June 22-24 to examine the accomplishments of 20 years of NASA's Earth system science program and discuss what discoveries and opportunities lay ahead. Contact: Steve Cole
Public Release: 12-May-2009
Scientists urge global action to preserve water supplies for billions worldwide Melting glaciers, weakening monsoon rains, less mountain snowpack and other effects of a warmer climate will lead to significant disruptions in the supply of water to highly populated regions of the world, especially near the Himalayas in Asia and the Sierra Nevada Mountains of the western United States, according to an international group of scientists who met for three days at the University of California, San Diego. Contact: Robert Monroe or Mario Aguilera
Public Release: 12-May-2009
World Ocean Conference 2009Scientists urge world leaders to respond cooperatively to Pacific Ocean threats More than 400 leading scientists from nearly two-dozen countries have signed a consensus statement on the major threats facing the Pacific Ocean. The threats identified as the most serious and pervasive include overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction and climate change. "This is first time the scientific community has come together in a single voice to express urgency over the environmental crisis facing the Pacific Ocean," said Center for Ocean Solutions Director Meg Caldwell at the World Ocean Conference in Indonesia. Contact: Mark Shwartz
Public Release: 11-May-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesRiver delta areas can provide clue to environmental changes, Texas A&M prof says Sediments released by many of the world's largest river deltas to the global oceans have been changed drastically in the last 50 years, largely as a result of human activity, says a Texas A&M University researcher.
NASA, US Department of Energy, US Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Thomas Bianchi
Public Release: 11-May-2009
Scientists map West coast areas most affected by humans Climate change, fishing and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United States. Contact: Gail Gallessich
Public Release: 11-May-2009
Conservation LettersHigh human impact ocean areas along US West Coast revealed Climate change, fishing and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United States. Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 11-May-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNew Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities in the surrounding rock or is stuck to the walls of the underground cavity and cannot be accessed by the techniques currently used in the oil industry.
Danish Research Council, Danish High Technology Foundation, Maersk Oil and Gas AS
Contact: Tue Hassenkam
Public Release: 7-May-2009
New GSA volume takes bite out of Southern California geoscience The Southern California Continental Borderland and the associated Western Transverse Ranges make up one of the most distinctive environments on the North American west coast. During the past 20 years, the US Geological Survey, along with many scientific partners, has conducted extensive research on geologic and oceanographic processes in the urban ocean off Southern California, with the goal of exploring the impact that natural processes of the Borderland have on human population, and vice versa. Contact: Christa Stratton
Public Release: 7-May-2009
ScienceTiming is everything for northern shrimp populations in the north Atlantic Even for Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis), which support commercial fisheries worldwide, timing is everything in life. The tiny creatures, eaten in shrimp rolls and shrimp salad, occupy a pivotal role in the oceanic food chain and may serve as early indicators of changing climate due to their sensitivity to temperature. Northern shrimp also seem to have an uncanny sense of reproductive timing, releasing their larvae to match the arrival of food and thus maximizing larval survival.
National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA
Contact: Shelley Dawicki
Public Release: 6-May-2009
Global Biogeochemical CyclesOcean carbon: A dent in the iron hypothesis Oceanographers in the Earth Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory analyzed data from deep-diving Carbon Explorer floats that reported continuously for over a year following the SOFeX iron-fertilization experiment in the Southern Ocean. Most of the carbon from lush plankton blooms, both artificially fertilized and natural, never reached the deep ocean.
Biological and Environmental Research Program, US Department of Energy, National Oceanographic Partnership Program, US Office of Naval Research
Contact: Paul Preuss
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