Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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May 29, 2015

Fossil of 425-million-year-old parasite with host discovered in England
The new fossil, which was originally entirely soft-bodied, is the first fossil tongue worm species to be found associated with its host, which in this case is a species of ostracod -- a group o...
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05 2015

May 29, 2015

Stanford scientists discover how microbes acquire electricity in making methane
Producing microbial methane on an industrial scale will require major improvements in efficiency, Deutzmann said.
　　"Right now the main bottleneck in this process is figuring out how to get m...
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May 29, 2015

Tara Oceans expedition yields treasure trove of plankton data
In five related reports in this issue of the journal Science, a multinational team of researchers who spent three and a half years sampling the ocean's sunlit upper layers aboard the schooner T...
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May 29, 2015

Surviving Harsh Environments Becomes a Death-Trap for Specialist Corals
Newswise — The success of corals that adapt to survive in the world’s hottest sea could contribute to their demise through global warming, according to new research.
　　Researchers from the ...
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05 2015

May 28, 2015

NOAA Helps American Samoa Tackle a Thorny Issue
Divers remove crown-of-thorns starfish from the islands’ coral reefs
　　American Samoa is tackling a thorny issue on its nearshore coral reefs. The issue takes the form ofcrown-of-thorns star...
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05 2015

May 28, 2015

Surviving Harsh Environments Becomes a Death-Trap for Specialist Corals
Newswise — The success of corals that adapt to survive in the world’s hottest sea could contribute to their demise through global warming, according to new research.
　　Researchers from the ...
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05 2015

May 28, 2015

Tara Oceans expedition yields treasure trove of plankton data
In five related reports in this issue of the journal Science, a multinational team of researchers who spent three and a half years sampling the ocean's sunlit upper layers aboard the schooner T...
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05 2015

May 28, 2015

Big Island earthquakes could mean new eruption imminent
A recent rash of earthquakes on the Big Island has scientists believing there could be a new eruption about to occur. Hundreds of earthquakes have occurred in the past two days, with the shakin...
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05 2015

May 28, 2015

Seismic signals used to track above-ground explosions
Using seismic stations in Turkey, Livermore scientists Michael Pasyanos and Sean Ford created a method to determine source characteristics of near earth surface explosions. They found the above...
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May 28, 2015

Stratospheric influence on tropospheric jet streams, storm tracks and surface weather
The stratosphere is a layer of the atmosphere that contains just 15% of the atmospheric mass, and is located immediately above the troposphere, where day-to-day weather systems occur. Weather s...