Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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05 2015

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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05 2015

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

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...
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05 2015

May 19, 2015

Earthquakes: Supercycles in subduction zones
On 11 March 2011, a massive release of stress between two overlapping tectonic plates occurred beneath the ocean floor off the coast of Japan, triggering a giant tsunami. The Tohoku quake resul...
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05 2015

May 19, 2015

Accelerated West Antarctic ice mass loss continues to outpace East Antarctic gains
Knowing where and how mass currently changes in polar ice sheets is of great importance (Oppenheimer, 1998, Mitrovica et al., 2011 and Stocker et al., 2013). Observations indicate that the Anta...
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04 2015

Apr 27, 2015

Icebergs not the trigger for North Atlantic cold events
Abrupt climate change is a ubiquitous feature of the Late Pleistocene epoch1. In particular, the sequence of Dansgaard–Oeschger events (repeated transitions between warm interstadial and cold ...