Oceanography News

It's easy enough to argue cause, but effect is more difficult, especially when it can be measured and it's sitting there, well, right in front of your face.

A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday.

Global carbon-dioxide emissions are rising fast, global temperatures continue to climb at a pace in line with projections, and polar regions are losing ice faster than climate models have projected.

A U.S. study suggests the Earth's oceans' absorption of man-made carbon dioxide might be slowing.

The readings at this 2-mile-high station show a troubling upward curve as the world counts down to crucial climate talks: Global warming gases are building in the atmosphere at record levels from emissions that match scientists' worst-case scenarios.

The deeper they go, the darker it gets. Riding in a tiny submarine, headed for the bottom of the ocean, scientists watch as light from the water's surface slowly ebbs away and then disappears completely.

Beyond the reach of the last tendrils of sunlight, far beneath the waves, lies the planet's largest - and strangest - habitat.

Estimates of the extent of swimming on to be presented at Fluid Dynamics Conference in Minneapolis, Nov.

Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black depths by feeding on the snowlike decaying matter that cascades down, and even sunken whale bones, according to a report released Sunday.

Bruce A. Warren-- one of the world's pre-eminent researchers of deep ocean currents and scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - is the 2010 winner of the prestigious Sverdrup Gold Medal, awarded by the American Meteorological Society .

PANJIM, NOV 20 The 271 mm rainfall within seven hours on October 2, was the main cause of the Canacona floods, says a study conducted by the Canacona Flash Floods Study Committee.

The supercomputer is the most powerful computational system in Rhode Island and will be used by researchers statewide to tackle "grand challenges" affecting Ocean State residents in climate change, education, energy and health.

San Diego has long been the summer vacation spot of choice for Valley residents.

NATURAL "SINK": Scientists hope to precisely measure both how much greenhouse gases get dumped in the atmosphere as well as how much natural "sinks," such as the forest pictured here, absorb.

The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air.

South Africa has signed a R1,3-billion contract with a Finnish shipbuilder for a polar vessel to replace the 31-year-old SA Agulhas, the Department of Environmental Affairs said on Tuesday.

Rear Adm. Jonathan W. White relieved Rear Adm. David W. Titley as commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command in a change-of-command ceremony Friday.

The Numerical Algorithms Group announces new HPC performance milestones including up to 4 times better performance with multicore optimization for materials science and quantum Monte Carlo applications and reductions of up to 25% in runtimes with I/O tuning for an ocean modelling application.

Nope, it's not a robotic fish . At least, not like what we've covered before. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to create a whole new kind of robot, or rather robots.

TOBI sidescan sonar imagery draped over multibeam bathymetry provides a unique 3-D view of an active oceanic core complex at 13 19'N, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.