It’s a hard knock life for deep-sea animals. It’s really cold in the winter. It’s really cold in the summer. It’s dark and wet…like Boston…
View More OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of DespairCategory: Environmental Sciences
Amazing Growing Deep-Sea Volcano
When put in water, volcanoes may increase in size From National Geographic: The science team, led by Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University, reports the…
View More Amazing Growing Deep-Sea VolcanoUK Launches Bold Ocean Acidification Research Program
Way to go brits! The BBC reports: “The UK government has launched an £11m ($16m) five-year research programme into ocean acidification… The study will focus…
View More UK Launches Bold Ocean Acidification Research ProgramThriving In Extreme Conditions
…takes more than a Red Bull. You got to have the right metabolic pathways. NSF highlights the work of Samantha Joye of the University of…
View More Thriving In Extreme ConditionsOcean Acidification, Not Good For Living
Two recent papers in Nature GeoScience demonstrate the real effects of ocean acidification. For those not in know, there is an ongoing decrease in the…
View More Ocean Acidification, Not Good For LivingIron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming
BERLIN (AFP) — Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has “dampened hopes” that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in…
View More Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming100 Word Post: Hurdia victoria
Anomalocaris ruled the Cambrian seas but apparently so did a twenty centimenter cousin. Hurdia victoria, originally described in 1912, was known from just a jumble…
View More 100 Word Post: Hurdia victoriaLubchenco confirmed
Jane Lubchenco, the marine scientist named by President Obama to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, finally took her new job today, after she…
View More Lubchenco confirmedVisualizing the Tonga Earthquake
A nice visualization of seismic activity occurring under the Tongan Ridge and subduction zone. This animation was done after the magnitude 8 earthquake on May…
View More Visualizing the Tonga EarthquakeTsunami Warning in the South Pacific
[googlemap lat=”-22.857194700969636″ lng=”-174.55078125″ width=”500px” height=”300px” zoom=”6″ type=”G_HYBRID_MAP”]Tonga[/googlemap] News on the wire from Rick is that a tsunami warning was issued for the South Pacific after…
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