Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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03 2015

Mar 19, 2015

Evolving to cope with climate change
Over the next two centuries, climate change is likely to impact everything from industrial agriculture to the shape of our coastlines. The changing climate will certainly cause huge changes aro...
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03 2015

Mar 17, 2015

Hurricanes helped accelerate spread of lionfish
Just when you thought hurricanes couldn't get any scarier, think again. Their names roll of the tongue like a rogues' gallery: Floyd, Frances, Irene, Wilma and Andrew. But these aren't the name...
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03 2015

Mar 13, 2015

Paleoclimate and paleoceanography over the past 20,000 yr in the Mediterranean Sea Basins as indicated by sediment elemental proxies
Marine sediments record paleoenvironmental changes over time through variations in major and trace element concentrations. The main objective of this paper is to review such changes in the Medi...
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03 2015

Mar 13, 2015

Melting glaciers create noisiest places in ocean, study says
Bubbles gushing from melting glaciers and their icebergs make fjords the noisiest places in the oceans, a new study of waters near Alaska and Antarctica shows.
　　The underwater noise is much ...
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03 2015

Mar 12, 2015

Pollution Is Driving Force behind Growth of Nuisance Algal Scums Linked to Disease
Potentially toxic microbes which pose a threat to our drinking water have undergone a dramatic population explosion over the last 200 years as a result of pollution, research involving experts ...
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03 2015

Mar 09, 2015

Massive Expansion and Functional Divergence of Ia\nate Immune Genes in A Protostome
Linlin Zhang, Li Li, Ximing Guo, Gary W. Litman, Larry J. Dishaw & Guofan Zhang
　　Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 8693; doi:10.1038/srep08693
　　Received 24 September 2014; Accepted 02...
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03 2015

Mar 09, 2015

'Ecosystem Services' Help Assess Ocean Energy Development
With many projects under development in coastal regions such as New England, tidal power -- which extracts "hydrokinetic" energy from marine environments -- seems poised to join other U.S. comm...
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03 2015

Mar 06, 2015

International Team of Scientists Launches Fossil Database
Have you ever wondered exactly when a certain group of plants or animals first evolved? This week a groundbreaking new resource for scientists will go live, and it is designed to help answer ju...
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03 2015

Mar 05, 2015

Ocean Acidification Slows Algae Growth in The Southern Ocean
In a recent study, scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), demonstrate for the first time that ocean acidification could have negative ...
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02 2015

Feb 13, 2015

Ocean acidification changes balance of biofouling communities
A new study of marine organisms that make up the 'biofouling community' -- tiny creatures that attach themselves to ships' hulls and rocks in the ocean around the world -- shows how they adapt ...