Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Small algae with great potential
In an unprecedented evolution experiment scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that th...
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Nemo can travel great distances to connect populations: Baby clownfish travel hundreds of kilometers across open ocean
Dr Steve Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology and Global Change at the University of Exeter, and colleagues from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studie...
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Counting fish teeth reveals regulatory DNA changes behind rapid evolution, adaptation
Breeding studies between marine and freshwater populations of sticklebacks now have turned up one of the genes that controls tooth number, plus evidence that a simple change in that gene's regu...
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Fall foliage season may be later, but longer on warmer Earth
Climate change could postpone fall leaf peeping in some areas of the United States as summer temperatures linger later into the year, Princeton University researchers report in the journal Glob...
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Tropical rabbitfish a threat to Mediterranean Sea ecosystems
The study, by an international team of researchers led by Dr Adriana Vergés of UNSW Australia and Dr Fiona Tomas of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies in Spain, is published in t...
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Effect of ocean acidification: Coral growth rate on Great Barrier Reef plummets in 30-year comparison
In a quest for historical context on the peril facing coral reefs, the team compared current measurements of the growth rate of a section of Australia's Great Barrier Reef with similar measurem...
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New explanation for origin of plate tectonics: What set Earth's plates in motion?
"Earth is the only planet in our solar system where the process of plate tectonics occurs," said Professor Patrice Rey, from the University of Sydney's School of Geosciences.
　　"The geologica...
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Study on global carbon cycle may require reappraisal of climate events in Earth's history
The UM Rosenstiel School researchers measured the abundance of carbon-12 and carbon-13 isotopes in both the organic matter and carbonate sediments found in a nearly 700-meter marine sediment co...
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3-D printing of rocks and fossils
Franek Hasiuk grabbed a little red ball and said it's not every day you pick up Mars.
　　But there it was, a Mars model about the size of a golf ball and just detailed enough to show Olympus M...
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August and June-August global temperatures each reach record high, driven largely by record warm global oceans
This monthly summary from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides to government, the business sector, academia, and the p...