Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Mediterranean fish stocks show steady decline
While careful management has helped stabilize or even improve the state of fisheries resources in some parts of Europe, the situation in the Mediterranean has deteriorated over the past 20 year...
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Jul 28, 2014

Evidence of super-fast deep earthquake: Rare high-speed rupture off Russia and similar phenomena on shallow fault zones
As scientists learn more about earthquakes that rupture at fault zones near the planet's surface -- and the mechanisms that trigger them -- an even more intriguing earthquake mystery lies deepe...
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Jul 28, 2014

Giant earthquakes help predict volcanic eruptions
Researchers at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier/Université de Savoie/IRD/IFSTTAR) and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (CNRS/Université Paris D...
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Jul 28, 2014

Antarctic climate and food web strongly linked
A long-term study of the links between climate and marine life along the rapidly warming West Antarctic Peninsula reveals how changes in physical factors such as wind speed and sea-ice cover se...
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Jul 28, 2014

Changing Antarctic winds create new sea level threat
New research shows projected changes in the winds circling the Antarctic may accelerate global sea level rise significantly more than previously estimated.
　　Changes to Antarctic winds have a...
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Whales as ecosystem engineers: Recovery from overhunting helping to buffer marine ecosystems from destabilizing stresses
"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part," wrote Herman Melville in Moby Dick. Today, we no longer dread whales, but t...
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SAR11, oceans' most abundant organism, has ability to create methane
The oxygen-rich surface waters of the world's major oceans are supersaturated with methane -- a powerful greenhouse gas that is roughly 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide -- yet little is...
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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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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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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...