The Indian Ocean’s cup runeth over
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By , on June 9th, 2011 2 comments   Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Weather   , , , , , , , ,  

I’ve been in Brazil for the past week for some research coordination meetings. This has involved a number of different folks in several forums, but the whole process was pervaded by a patent anxiety on the part of many people I spoke to with regards to climate change. This is not new of course, but . . . → Read More: The Indian Ocean’s cup runeth over

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Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt Reconsidered
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By , on May 14th, 2009 28 comments - (Comments are closed)   New Research   , , , , , , ,  

Science Daily is reporting that just because they teach you something in graduate school doesn’t make it right. A 50 year old model of global thermohaline circulation that predicts a deep Atlantic counter current below the Gulf Stream is now formally called into question by an armada of subsurface RAFOS floats drifting 700 – . . . → Read More: Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt Reconsidered

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Bi-polar Invertebrata-ta
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By , on February 16th, 2009 9 comments   Organisms   , , ,  

Two oceans couldn’t be farther apart. The Arctic and Antarctic Oceans have about 160 degrees of separation but Census of Marine Life scientists say they share more than 235 species in common. Most of them are not actively migratory fishes and birds, instead they are passively migratory invertebrates like the sea cucumber and sea butterfly . . . → Read More: Bi-polar Invertebrata-ta

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