Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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07 2014

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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07 2014

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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07 2014

Jul 28, 2014

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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07 2014

Jul 28, 2014

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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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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