Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Jan 13, 2016

Galapagos expedition reveals unknown seamounts, new species
The Galápagos archipelago, which is made up of 13 major volcanic islands, occupies a submerged platform, which rises more than 3 kilometers above the adjacent seafloor. Until recently, the pla...
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Jan 13, 2016

Humans adding less nitrogen to oceans than models predict
"People may not be polluting the ocean as much as we thought, which is a good thing," said Hastings, who is also a fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. "However, additi...
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01 2016

Jan 13, 2016

Study emphasizes challenges faced by marine organisms exposed to global change
Now, a panel of scientists from California, Oregon and Washington has examined the dual impacts of ocean acidification and low-oxygen conditions, or hypoxia, on the physiology of fish and inver...
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01 2016

Jan 13, 2016

Long-term observations hold key to climate change impact assessment
Around fifteen years of continuous data is sufficient to detect changes in the ocean that are a direct response to increases in atmospheric CO2, such as sea surface temperature and ocean acidit...
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01 2016

Jan 13, 2016

Greenland ice sheet melts more when it's cloudy
Greenland's ice sheet is the second largest ice mass in the world -- the largest is Antarctica. The ice sheet is losing mass at a high speed and increasingly contributes to the sea level rise o...
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01 2016

Jan 13, 2016

Tough times for the tree of life on coral reefs
Researchers from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE), at James Cook University in Townsville, analysed the extent to which the evolutionary h...
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01 2016

Jan 13, 2016

Mountains west of Boulder continue to lose ice as climate warms
The study area encompasses the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site, thousands of acres of alpine tundra, subalpine forest, talus slopes, glacial lakes and wetlands stretching ...
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01 2016

Jan 13, 2016

NASA's Terra satellite spots record-breaking Hurricane Pali
On Jan. 11 at 22:30 UTC (5:30 p.m. EST) the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of strengthening Tropical Storm Pali in the Central Pacific Ocean. On Jan. 11...
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01 2016

Jan 13, 2016

New geological evidence aids tsunami hazard assessments from Alaska to Hawaii
These findings, published by a team of scientists led by U.S. Geological Survey geologist Rob Witter in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, present strong...
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01 2016

Jan 13, 2016

Acidification affects the ability of bacteria to clean our oceans
"It is well known that the acidification of our oceans causes the degradation of coral reefs and disturbs the production of the calcareous shells of important phytoplankton," says Jarone Pinhas...