Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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02 2015

Feb 13, 2015

Increased frequency of extreme La Ni？a events under greenhouse warming
The El Ni？o/Southern Oscillation is Earth’s most prominent source of interannual climate variability, alternating irregularly between El Ni？o and La Ni？a, and resulting in global disruption...
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Feb 13, 2015

The effect of Mediterranean exchange flow on European time mean sea level
The slope in mean sea level along the coast is subject to stronger constraints than that in open ocean regions. The zero-order balance in the open ocean is geostrophic balance, in which sea lev...
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02 2015

Feb 13, 2015

Smothered oceans: Extreme oxygen loss in oceans accompanied past global climate change
Seafloor sediment cores reveal abrupt, extensive loss of oxygen in the ocean when ice sheets melted roughly 10,000-17,000 years ago, according to a study from the University of California, Davi...
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Feb 13, 2015

Environmental Scientists Find Antibiotics, Bacteria, Resistance Genes in Feedlot Dust
After testing dust in the air near cattle feedlots in the Southern High Plains, researchers at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University found evidence of antibio...
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Feb 13, 2015

Using less fish to test chemicals safety
The JRC has released a new strategy on how to replace, reduce and refine the use of fish in testing of chemicals' effect on flora and fauna in water (aquatic toxicity) and chemicals' uptake and...
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Feb 13, 2015

How will ocean acidification impact marine life?
Many marine organisms--such as coral, clams, mussels, sea urchins, barnacles, and certain microscopic plankton--rely on equilibrated chemical conditions and pH levels in the ocean to build thei...
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Feb 13, 2015

Sea slug has taken genes from algae it eats, allowing it to photosynthesize like a plant
How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time "feeding" on sunlight, like a plant, is clarified in a recent study published in The Biological Bulletin.
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Feb 13, 2015

Methane seepage from Arctic seabed occurring for millions of years
Natural seepage of methane offshore the Arctic archipelago Svalbard has been occurring periodically for at least 2,7 million years. Major events of methane emissions happened at least twice dur...
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02 2015

Feb 13, 2015

Female sticklebacks prime their offspring to cope with climate change
Climate change and the accompanying warming of the oceans are of key interest to researchers around the globe. Above all, they want to know: What will happen to marine life forms if the predict...
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02 2015

Feb 13, 2015

Randomness of megathrust earthquakes implied by rapid stress recovery after the Japan earthquake
Asociate Professor Bogdan Enescu, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, collaborated with colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zur...