Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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02 2015

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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02 2015

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.
　　The authors pre...
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02 2015

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...
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02 2015

Feb 13, 2015

Orbital forcing of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) core U1361 was recovered from ～3,000 m water depth on the continental rise adjacent to the Wilkes Subglacial Basin of Antarctica, one of the largest ma...
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02 2015

Feb 04, 2015

Predatory sea snails produce weaponized insulin
The predators go, cone snails are slow-moving and lack the typical fighting parts. They've made up for it by producing a vast array of fast-acting toxins that target the nervous systems of prey...
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Feb 04, 2015

Using less fish to test chemicals safety
Developed by the JRC-managed European Union Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM), the strategy supports EU legislation on environmental hazard and risk assessmen...
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02 2015

Feb 04, 2015

Sisters act together: Cichlid sisters swim together in order to reach the goal
The manner and routes of dispersal vary with the species and the ecological conditions. Many fish form shoals to avoid predation. Shoaling with familiar conspecifics affords the fish an even gr...
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Feb 04, 2015

Study investigates impact of catastrophic 2013 flooding: Fields with high diversity benefit from being submerged
In early June 2013, central Europe was hit by massive flooding which caused well over EUR 12 billion worth of damage. In Germany, several rivers broke their banks, including the Saale in Thurin...