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Public Release: 22-Oct-2009

Science
UBC researchers find key microbial indicator of ocean health
A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia, along with colleagues at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, has mapped the genome of a microbe that is silently helping to shape the ecology of oxygen-minimum areas in the ocean known as dead zones.

Public Release: 21-Oct-2009
Final look at ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites
As preparations for the launch of SMOS and Proba-2 continue on schedule, the engineers and technicians at the Russian launch site say goodbye as both satellites are encapsulated within the half-shells of the Rockot fairing.

Public Release: 21-Oct-2009
Pavlopetri -- the world's oldest known submerged town
The world's oldest known submerged town has been revealed through the discovery of late Neolithic pottery. The finds were made during an archaeological survey of Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece.

Public Release: 20-Oct-2009
Texas A&M oceanographer receives $3.7 million grant to study Gulf dead zone
Oceanographer Steve DiMarco of Texas A&M University, a leading authority on the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," and his team of researchers have been awarded $725,467 for the first year of a five-year, $3.72 million project that seeks to better understand and predict where and when the dead zone will happen each year. This new project builds on six prior years of funding.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Public Release: 19-Oct-2009
U of T's Richard Peltier is first Canadian to win prestigious international science prize
Renowned University of Toronto physicist Richard Peltier has been chosen by the Franklin Institute to receive the 2010 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. Peltier is the first Canadian to receive the $250,000 award and joins a group of previous recipients that includes Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Public Release: 13-Oct-2009

American Shore and Beach Preservation Association’s 2009 National Coastal Conference
Rip currents pose greater risk to swimmers than to shoreline
Henry Bokuniewicz, professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, and Ph.D. candidate Michael Slattery found that rip currents at East Hampton Village Beach lasted on average a little over one minute, not long enough to substantially alter the shoreline. They will present their findings Oct. 14 at the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association's 2009 National Coastal Conference, "Integrating Coastal Science & Policy."

East Hampton Beach Preservation Society, Halpern Foundation

Public Release: 13-Oct-2009

Geophysical Research Letters
AGU journal highlights -- Oct. 13, 2009
Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: Ozone-destroying gas levels spike in Arctic middle atmosphere; Lunar subsurface features mapped; Climate models must consider ozone variations; How L'Aquila earthquake rupture and aftershocks evolved; Explaining ocean reflectance lines; Cosmic ray particles flow into solar region; and Groundwater resources declining in northern India.

Public Release: 12-Oct-2009

Warmer climate not the cause of oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea
Oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea has never been greater than it is now. But it is not an effect of climate change but rather of increased inputs of nutrients and fertilizers. This is the finding of researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who have analyzed the ocean climate of the Baltic Sea since the 16th century.

Public Release: 11-Oct-2009

Nature Geoscience
Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes
The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth more than two billion years ago.

National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Public Release: 9-Oct-2009
Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone
An international group of scientists aboard the Deep-Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, return from a 40-day scientific expedition off the shore of the Kii Peninsula, Japan on Oct. 10, 2009.

National Science Foundation, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Public Release: 9-Oct-2009

Continental Shelf Research
Rising sea levels are increasing the risk of flooding along the south coast of England
A new study by researchers at the University of Southampton has found that sea levels have been rising across the south coast of England over the past century, substantially increasing the risk of flooding during storms.

Public Release: 7-Oct-2009
The European project, Eurofleets
The project Eurofleets funded by the European Commission in the 7th Framework program was recently launched with a meeting in Paris. Twenty-four partners from 16 member states of the European Union or associated countries participated to further advance the networking of the European research fleets. The European Commission finances Eurofleets during the coming four years with 7.2 million euros.

European Commission

Public Release: 6-Oct-2009
Arctic sea ice recovers slightly in 2009, remains on downward trend, says U. of Colorado report
Despite a slight recovery in summer Arctic sea ice in 2009 from record-setting low years in 2007 and 2008, the sea ice extent remains significantly below previous years and remains on a trend leading toward ice-free Arctic summers, according to the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.

NASA

Public Release: 6-Oct-2009

PLoS ONE
Albatross camera reveals fascinating feeding interaction with killer whale
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, and Hokkaido University, Japan, have recorded the first observations of how albatrosses feed alongside marine mammals at sea.

Public Release: 5-Oct-2009
How will future sea-level rise linked to climate change affect coastal areas?
The anticipated sea-level rise associated with climate change, including increased storminess, over the next 100 years and the impact on the nation's low-lying coastal infrastructure is the focus of a new, interdisciplinary study led by geologists at the Florida State University.

Public Release: 5-Oct-2009

Gulf of Maine Symposium -- Advancing Ecosystem Research for the Future of the Gulf
Gulf of Maine Symposium in Saint Andrews-by-the-Sea, Plenary Sessions held Oct. 6-9, 2009
Two hundred leading marine scientists, managers and policy makers from the US and Canada have come together in Saint Andrews-by-the-Sea to further their collective knowledge about one of world's most productive marine ecosystems, the Gulf of Maine. Plenary sessions for the Gulf of Maine Symposium will be held Oct. 6-9 at the Fairmont Algonquin in St. Andrews to discuss sustainability of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem.

Public Release: 5-Oct-2009

Environmental Science & Technology
Acidic clouds nourish world's oceans
Acidic clouds are feeding bioavailable iron to the oceans -- a discovery which sheds light on the natural processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Natural Environment Research Council

Public Release: 1-Oct-2009
NOAA awards funds to improve toxic algal bloom predictions in the Western Gulf of Mexico
NOAA is awarding $178,358 for the first year of a project to improve predictions of toxic algal blooms in the western Gulf of Mexico as part of an evolving national ecological forecasting capability. NOAA anticipates a nearly $1 million investment in this large-scale regional project over the next four years.

Public Release: 1-Oct-2009
New research to improve management of toxic red tides in the Gulf of Maine
NOAA has awarded $457,000 in competitive grant funding to support three projects to better track and manage outbreaks of toxic red tide algae that threaten public health and New England's shellfish industry. The grant covers the first year of what will be multi-year projects.

Public Release: 1-Oct-2009

Ecology
Coral bleaching increases chances of coral disease
Mass coral bleaching has devastated coral colonies around the world for almost three decades. Now scientists have found that bleaching can make corals more susceptible to disease and, in turn, coral disease can exacerbate the negative effects of bleaching. A paper in the October issue of the journal Ecology shows that when they occur together, this combination of afflictions causes greater harm to corals than either does on its own.

Public Release: 30-Sep-2009

Progress in Oceanography
Joint US-Norwegian study provides new insights into marine ecosystems and fisheries production
NOAA and Norwegian researchers recently completed a comparative analysis of marine ecosystems in the North Atlantic and North Pacific to see what factors support fisheries production, leading to new insights that could improve fishery management plans and the ecosystems.

Norwegian Research Council

Public Release: 29-Sep-2009

Nature Geoscience
Mystery solved: Marine microbe is source of rare nutrient
A new study of microscopic marine microbes, called phytoplankton, by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of South Carolina has solved a 10-year-old mystery about the source of an essential nutrient in the ocean.

National Science Foundation, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Public Release: 29-Sep-2009

INVEST - IODP New Ventures in Exploring Scientific Targets
Unlocking the secrets of the seafloor: The future of scientific ocean drilling
Close to 600 scientists from 21 countries met Sept. 23-25, 2009, in Bremen, Germany, to outline major scientific targets for a new and ambitious ocean drilling research program. The scientific community envisions that this program will succeed the current Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, which ends in 2013. The outcome of the Bremen meeting will result in a new science plan, enabling scientific ocean drilling to take on a central role in environmental understanding and stewardship of our planet in the 21st century.

National Science Foundation, Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Public Release: 28-Sep-2009
Storm killers: LSU's Earth Scan Lab tracks cold water upwellings in Gulf
As researchers develop new ways to better understand and predict the nature of individual storms, a largely unstudied phenomenon has caught the attention of scientists at LSU's Earth Scan Laboratory, or ESL. Cool water upwellings occurring within ocean cyclones following alongside and behind hurricanes are sometimes strong enough to reduce the strength of hurricanes as they cross paths.

Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
World's largest marine protected areas sign partnership agreement
Today two of the world's largest marine protected areas announced a historic alliance to enhance the management and protection of almost 300,000 square miles of marine habitat in the Pacific Ocean.

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