Where’s the Ocean Love?
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By , on December 15th, 2010 Leave a comment   Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Weather   , , , , ,  

DSN will be featuring some guest posts from Danny Richter – A Ph.D Student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego studying diatoms stems from an interest in their potential to affect global biogeochemical cycles, and ultimately the climate. He is active in attempting to influence national climate policy by lobbying in . . . → Read More: Where’s the Ocean Love?

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Interactions in the Dark Ocean
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By , on July 5th, 2010 One comment   Biology, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Microbes, New Research, Organisms, Plankton   , , , , , , ,  

Fig 1 from Steinberg and Hansell (2010) DSRIIThe recent of issue of Deep-Sea Research II is out and focuses on the ecological and biogeochemical interactions in the dark ocean. Perhaps the best summary of why this is an important contribution is from the editor of the volume themselves… The deep sea, a vast, dark realm . . . → Read More: Interactions in the Dark Ocean

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Freak ocean wave across the Pacific
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By , on January 10th, 2008 Leave a comment   New Research   , , , , ,  

Climate oscillations, even small ones like the Madden Julian Oscillation, can have a deep impact on the oceans, down to a mile deep. The Telegraph UK calls one newly revealed oceanographic mechanism a “freak” ocean wave because it travels underwater, with little or no surface expression. This was such a good spin I had to promote this to main title. . . . → Read More: Freak ocean wave across the Pacific

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