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Original Technorati articles tagged “oceanography”

• in Technology
  Explore the deep with Google Sea View
  Google is teaming up with Queensland University to offer a Street View like product to explore the oceans.
  by cmimanagers / on Feb 24, 2012
• in Celebrity
  I Used to Know That: Geography (Stuff You Forgot From School)
  “Without Geography, you’re nowhere.” –Jimmy Buffett
  by missbobetier / on Oct 3, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “oceanography”

 

• NOAA, Partners Predict Possible Record-setting Deadzone for Gulf of Mexico

  
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  Scientists are expecting a very large “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico and a smaller than average hypoxic level in the Chesapeake Bay this year, based on several NOAA-supported forecast models. NOAA-supported modelers at the University of Michigan, Louisiana State University, and the  Louisiana Universities ...
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• Tropical vagrants bigger, stronger survivors

  
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  Sydney marine researchers are one step further in solving the mystery of how tropical fishes, in response to rising sea temperatures and the impact of climate change, are shifting, and potentially surviving within cold temperate waters. These tropical ‘vagrants’, numbering in the hundreds of species, are ...
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• The Garbage Patch Misconceptions

  
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  “The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”—a purported island of trash twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean —receives a lot of media attention. [...] However, based on research we know that the name “garbage patch” is misleading and that there is no island of trash forming in the middle of ...
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• Hawaiian petrels forced to eat lower on food chain, industrial fishing blamed

  
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  Hawaiian petrels are eating far lower on the food chain, and a new study blames that on industrial fishing. The takeaway from that is that the entire Pacific food web may be changing as a result of human activities.  (Image, a Hawaiian petrel or `a`o. Credit Brenda Zaun, USFWS.) Says the study: ...
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• Research: More carbon is flowing into the water than anyone knew

  
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  A lot of the planet’s carbon, which scientists assume is in the soil, is actually flowing into the water. And in some ways—from a climate change perspective—that could be a good thing, according to a team of researchers that includes University of Hawai`i oceanographer Fred Mackenzie. Okay, your eyes are ...
  1 week ago

• Seven ocean researchers nominated for 2013 ASPIRE Prize

  
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  Member economies of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) have announced their nominees for the 2013 APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research, and Education, also known as the ASPIRE Prize, sponsored by John Wiley & Sons and Elsevier. In line with this year’s theme, the prize honors a young scientist whose ...
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• Making waves: quantifying uncertainty to develop better ocean simulations

  
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  “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” A version of this quote, originally penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes,” appears in a dog-eared copy of “Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and ...
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• World Oceans Month Brings Mixed News for Oysters

  
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  In World Oceans Month, there’s mixed news for the Pacific Northwest oyster industry. For the past several years, it has struggled with significant losses due to ocean acidification. Oyster larvae have had mortality rates high enough to render production no longer economically feasible. Now a new study documents ...
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• Glacier Changes In NE Greenland

  
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  Glacier Changes in NE Greenland Substantial cracks in the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier ice tongue appear to be growing in extent and number.  While not as spectacular as the 2010 calving of the Peterman Ice Island , it is more closely linked to global warming than Otherwise known as 79 North, ...
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• The Largest Bony Fish in the Ocean Video

  
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  Researchers operating a remote control diving vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico captured several minutes of video of a rare, deep-sea oarfish – the largest bony fish in the ocean . Video on NationalGeographic.com.
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• Recovery of Hawaiian green sea turtles far short of historic levels

  
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  Calls to lift protections for the iconic Hawaiian green sea turtle may be premature, according to a new study led by a Stanford researcher. Although the number of Hawaiian green sea turtles has increased since 1978 when the species was listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the population may still be only a ...
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• Earthquake Acoustics and Tsunami Warnings

  
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  “Stanford scientists have identified key acoustic characteristics of the 2011 Japan earthquake that indicated it would cause a large tsunami. The technique could be applied worldwide to create an early warning system for massive tsunamis.” Quoted from the Stanford University press release.
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• Study reveals significant leakage of carbon stored on land to rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal regions

  
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  When carbon is emitted by human activities into the atmosphere it is generally thought that about half remains in the atmosphere and the remainder is stored in the oceans and on land. New research suggests that human activity could be increasing the movement of carbon from land to rivers, estuaries and the coastal ...
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• Study pinpoints how coral make their mineral skeletons

  
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  Rutgers scientists have described for the first time the biological process of how corals create their skeletons – destined to become limestones – which form massive and ecologically vital coral reefs in the world’s oceans. In a publication in Current Biology, Tali Mass and her colleagues at the Rutgers ...
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• Sea of miracles: industrial uses for ocean biodiversity

  
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  The seafloor is our planet’s most biodiverse realm. It is in the sea that life on earth began over 3.5 billion years ago. It is in the sea where 34 of the 36 known phyla of animals remain to this day, 15 of which are exclusive to the world’s oceans. And it is in the sea where myriad opportunities await. The ...
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• Is Yonaguni Monument The Japanese Atlantis?

  
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  Is the breathtaking stone structure the work of a 10,000-year-old civilization, or is it somehow an illusion? Atlas Obscura explains: The Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, literally translated as “Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography,” is an underwater mystery off the coast of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. The massive ...
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• Is Yonaguni Monument The Japanese Atlantis?

  
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  Is the breathtaking stone structure the work of a 10,000-year-old civilization, or is it somehow an illusion? Atlas Obscura explains: The Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, literally translated as “Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography,” is an underwater mystery off the coast of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. The massive ...
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• World’s Largest Landslides

  
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  The Heart Mountain Landslide of Wyoming is the largest known subaerial landslide that has been recognized on Earth. The largest submarine slide is the Storegga slide off the coast of Norway.
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• Deep Sixed

  
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  In the deep sea, low oxygen levels, scarce sunlight, and freezing water limit the rate at which items decompose: Something that might survive a few years on land could exist for decades underwater. - ROVs photograph trash on the ocean floor.
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• Report examines oil pollution threat from shipwrecks

  
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  NOAA presented to the U.S. Coast Guard a new report that finds that 36 sunken vessels scattered across the U.S. seafloor could pose an oil pollution threat to the nation’s coastal marine resources. Of those, 17 were recommended for further assessment and potential removal of both fuel oil and oil cargo. The sunken ...
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