Oceanography News

Don't let his pretty face fool you, Gary Finch has been in Okaloosa County this week on deadly serious business.

March 11 2011 was a tragic day for Japan and the world. The earthquake in Tohoku, Japan caused a tsunami, and the resulting tsunami-induced inundation has placed Japan into crisis.

Image Caption: Flooding across Highway 78, San Diego County, Calif. The NASA/Scripps Institution of Oceanography-developed GPS natural hazards warning system was first used by NOAA in July 2013, in San Diego and Oxnard, Calif., to forecast a summer monsoon and issue accurate flash flood warnings.

Their findings suggest that these landslides result in smaller tsunami waves than previously thought by some authors, because of the processes involved.

NS Saltwater Production Manager Cooke, Michael Szemerda - VP Saltwater Operations Cooke, Dr. Chris Moore - Dean of Science Dalhousie University, Dr. Martha Crago - VP Research Dalhousie University, Dr. Jon Grant - NSERC Cooke Industrial Research Chair, Dr. Richard Isenor - Atlantic Manager NSERC, Nell Halse - VP Communications Cooke, Andrew Lively ... (more)

Octavio Aburto is a Mexican photographer and marine biologist, based at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, and is a fellow with The International League of Conservation Photographers .

China is accelerating its efforts to tap vast metal deposits on the ocean floor, with manned submersible Jiaolong scheduled to dive in the country's two contract areas in the northwest Pacific and the southwest Indian Ocean next year.

We've known for a while that the ocean is rapidly becoming too acidic for some forms of marine life to survive.

The following op-ed by Dal Vice-President Research Martha Crago first appeared in the Hill Times.

Midshipman First Class Matthew LaFleur cut quite the handsome figure sporting his dress blues around his hometown of Baton Rouge over the Thanksgiving holidays.

Brazil-based Barracuda Advanced Composites provided structural sandwich panels for the ECO research yacht fabricated by the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

Geologic Processes Deep Inside Earth: New Light On Genetic Makeup of Earth's Deep Microbial Life and Geochemistry of Lavas - Scientists at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography are shedding light on the genetic makeup of Earth's deep microbial life and the geochemistry of the lavas that form the Earth's crust through ... (more)

However, little or no information is available about the amount, location, or nature of the materials that were dumped at most of these sites.

Oceanography professor Steven D'Hondt and other researchers are part of a team analyzing the DNA of organisms that live in sediments beneath the ocean floor.

Local lawmakers who secured $15 million in the last legislative session for renovations at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus in Groton are now focusing on improving the math, science and engineering facilities there.

"Contamination of our food and land now affecting the way we think"disease of the mind has set in world leaders."

World renowned coastal experts who visited KA piti last week say they will leave with a better understanding of coastal hazards affecting the district and the concerns of coastal residents.

If you think you're worried about climate change, just imagine how some ocean critters must be feeling as the seas become ever-warmer and more acidic.

J. Phys. Oceanogr. In Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 16, No. 11. , pp. 1777-1798, doi:10.1175/1520-0485 016 Abstract Two experiments were performed to study the characteristics of turbulence in convective mixed layers in the upper Ocean.

For the past three decades, as the climate has warmed, the massive plates of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean have shrunk: In 2007, scientists observed nearly 50 percent less summer ice than had been seen in 1980.