Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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07 2014

Jul 28, 2014

Studying magma formation beneath Mount St. Helens
University and government scientists are embarking on a collaborative research expedition to improve volcanic eruption forecasting by learning more about how a deep-underground feeder system cr...
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07 2014

Jul 28, 2014

Ironing out details of the carbon cycle: Dissolved iron in North Atlantic traced to Sahara desert
"I did a calculation once on a ton of ocean water," says Seth John, an assistant professor in the department of marine science at the University of South Carolina. "The amount of iron in that t...
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07 2014

Jul 28, 2014

High carbon dioxide levels cause warming in tropics
The impact of the greenhouse gas CO2 on Earth's temperature is well established by climate models and temperature records over the past 100 years, as well as coupled records of carbon dioxide c...
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07 2014

Jul 28, 2014

All the world's oceans have plastic debris on their surface
The Malaspina Expedition, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has demonstrated that there are five large accumulations of plastic debris in the open ocean that match with the five maj...
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06 2014

Jun 30, 2014

Deep sea fish remove one million tons of carbon dioxide every year from UK and Irish waters
Deep sea fishes remove and store more than one million tonnes of CO2from UK and Irish surface waters every year, according to a new study led by the University of Southampton.
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06 2014

Jun 30, 2014

Report supports shutdown of all high seas fisheries
Fish and aquatic life living in the high seas are more valuable as a carbon sink than as food and should be better protected, according to research from the University of British Columbia.
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06 2014

Jun 30, 2014

How red tide knocks out its competition
New research reveals how the algae behind red tide thoroughly disables -- but doesn't kill -- other species of algae. The study shows how chemical signaling between algae can trigger big change...
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06 2014

Jun 30, 2014

Colonial-era dams trigger parallel evolution of Connecticut fish
Decisions made by Colonial era settlers to dam Connecticut waterways triggered sudden and parallel evolutionary changes in two species of fish competing for food, a new Yale University study sh...
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06 2014

Jun 23, 2014

Close-up of coral bleaching event
New research by University of Georgia ecologists sheds light on exactly what happens to coral during periods of excessively high water temperatures. Their study, published in the journal Limnol...
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06 2014

Jun 23, 2014

How do phytoplankton survive scarcity of critical nutrient?
Phytoplankton -- tiny, photosynthetic organisms -- are essential to life on Earth, supplying us with roughly half the oxygen we breathe. Like all other life forms, phytoplankton require the ele...