Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Nov 28, 2014

Geologists discover ancient buried canyon in South Tibet
A team of researchers from Caltech and the China Earthquake Administration has discovered an ancient, deep canyon buried along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in south Tibet, north of the eastern end...
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Nov 11, 2014

Reef-builders with a sense of harmony
Cold-water corals of the species Lophelia pertusa are able to fuse skeletons of genetically distinct individuals. On dives with JAGO, a research submersible stationed at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre...
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Nov 11, 2014

The secret life of the sea trout
They use listening stations and special tags they attach to their subjects to track their movements.
　　They follow their subjects winter and summer, day and night.
　　They are in pursuit of ...
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Nov 11, 2014

Plump turtles swim better: First models of swimming animals
For the first time, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have measured the force...
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Nov 11, 2014

Green spaces don't ensure biodiversity in urban areas
The researchers surveyed two types of tree in an urban area in Iowa, and recorded the abundance of two insects that interact with them. They found that while there were plenty of the trees, bla...
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Nov 11, 2014

Penguin chick weights connected to local weather conditions
As the WAP climate warms, it is changing from a dry, polar system to a warmer, sub-polar system with more rain.
　　University of Delaware oceanographers recently reported a connection between ...
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11 2014

Nov 11, 2014

Earthquakes in the ocean: Towards a better understanding of their precursors
A model specific to the submarine environment
　　The data used to construct the model presented in the article were collected from subsea observatories* deployed in the North-East Pacific frac...
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Nov 11, 2014

Magma pancakes beneath Indonesia's Lake Toba: Subsurface sources of mega-eruptions
A team of geoscientists from Novosibirsk, Paris and Potsdam presents these results in the current issue ofScience. The scientists investigate the question on where the tremendous amounts of mat...
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Nov 11, 2014

Icelandic volcano sits on massive magma hot spot

　　New research from UC Davis and Aarhus University in Denmark shows that high mantle temperatures miles beneath Earth's surface are essential for generating such large amounts of magma. In f...
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Nov 11, 2014

New report recognises climate change and ozone depletion links
The ozone hole over Antarctica is responsible for significant climate change in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a new international report.
　　The report, called Scientific Assessment of...