Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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08 2016

Aug 05, 2016

Early snowmelt reduces forests' atmospheric carbon dioxide uptake, decreases streamflow volume
The findings, which were recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, predict that this shift in the timing of the snowmelt could result in a 45 percent reduction of snowmelt...
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08 2016

Aug 05, 2016

A new leaf: Scientists turn carbon dioxide back into fuel
Produced by the burning of fossil fuels in power plants and car engines, carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, warming the planet. But trees and other plants do slowly captu...
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08 2016

Aug 05, 2016

Researchers pinpoint abrupt onset of modern day Indian Ocean monsoon system
In Nov. 2015, University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science geoscientist Gregor Eberli, along with his co-chief scientist Christian Betzler and an international t...
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08 2016

Aug 05, 2016

New genome reveals how Arctic microbes survive in cold extreme habitats
For the first time, researchers at the Bristol Glaciology Centre sequenced the genome of Phormidesmis priestleyi, which belongs to the cyanobacteria, an ancient group of photosynthetic microorg...
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08 2016

Aug 05, 2016

Recycling carbon dioxide
Drs. Min Liu and Yuanjie Pang, along with a team of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in U of T Engineering, have developed a technique powered by renewable energies such as solar or ...
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07 2016

Jul 26, 2016

2016 climate trends continue to break records
Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Insti...
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07 2016

Jul 26, 2016

Birds on top of the world, with nowhere to go
The University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences' researcher Hannah Wauchope said that suitable breeding conditions for Arctic shorebirds could collapse by 2070.
　　"This means that ...
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07 2016

Jul 26, 2016

North American forests unlikely to save us from climate change
Published in the journal Ecology Letters, the study is the first to reveal the possible impact of a changing climate on the growth rate of trees across all of North America, in other words, how...
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07 2016

Jul 26, 2016

Before animals, evolution waited eons to inhale
Evolution may have been waiting for a decent breath of oxygen, said researcher Chris Reinhard. And that was hard to come by. His research team is tracking down O2 concentrations in oceans, wher...
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07 2016

Jul 26, 2016

Oceanographers grow, sequence genome of ocean microbe important to climate change
These are marine microbes, a diverse group of organisms that includes microalgae, viruses, bacteria and archaea. They serve as the base of the marine food chain and are responsible for controll...