Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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09 2014

Sep 17, 2014

Better regulations needed for deep-sea biology
Although we know relatively little about the deep sea, we do extract raw materials for electronics and medicines from it. Biologist Erik Dücker describes the history of deep-sea biology in his...
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09 2014

Sep 17, 2014

New committee will advise federal leaders on integrating ocean observation systems
From NOAA
　　A new committee to advise federal leaders on integrating the nation’s ocean observing systems that collect and deliver ocean information will meet for the first time later this ...
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09 2014

Sep 17, 2014

How good is the fossil record? New study casts doubt on their usefulness
Methods have been developed to try to identify and correct for bias in the fossil record but new research from the Universities of Bristol and Bath, suggests many of these correction methods ma...
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09 2014

Sep 17, 2014

Mantle plumes crack continents
In some parts of the Earth, material rises upwards like a column from the boundary layer of Earth's core and the lower mantle to just below Earth's crust hundreds of kilometres above. Halted by...
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09 2014

Sep 17, 2014

Ozone pollution in India kills enough crops to feed 94 million in poverty
In one year, India's ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country's major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of ...
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09 2014

Sep 17, 2014

Clues to trapping carbon dioxide in rock: Calcium carbonate takes multiple, simultaneous roads to different minerals
One of the most important molecules on earth, calcium carbonate crystallizes into chalk, shells and minerals the world over. In a study led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest Natio...
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09 2014

Sep 17, 2014

Discrepancy in Greenland temperatures during end of last ice age resolved
A new study of three ice cores from Greenland documents the warming of the large ice sheet at the end of the last ice age -- resolving a long-standing paradox over when that warming occurred.
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08 2014

Aug 25, 2014

Atlantic warming turbocharges Pacific trade winds
New research has found rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean, likely caused by global warming, has turbocharged Pacific Equatorial trade winds. Currently the winds are at a level never before see...
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08 2014

Aug 25, 2014

Ancient shellfish remains rewrite 10,000-year history of El Nino cycles
The planet's largest and most powerful driver of climate changes from one year to the next, the El Ni？o Southern Oscillation in the tropical Pacific Ocean, was widely thought to have been weak...
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08 2014

Aug 25, 2014

Snow has thinned on Arctic sea ice, study finds
From research stations drifting on ice floes to high-tech aircraft radar, scientists have been tracking the depth of snow that accumulates on Arctic sea ice for almost a century. Now that peopl...