Oceanography News

Researchers from Texas A&M University have fired up a new monitoring system on an offshore wind platform and detected a new 'dead zone' in the Gulf south of Galveston.

Global warming? A Maybe. A But if it is, the arid event could happen even sooner than current projections.

Western China is a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history.

SAN DIEGO - Lifeguards and experts are puzzled by an unusual deep-water current that slammed into a group of scuba divers off the La Jolla shores in San Diego.

The Galapagos Islands, today an arid place on the equator in the Eastern Pacific, had a wet climate four centuries ago, new research suggests.

Researchers from the University of Southampton have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution of a notorious deep-sea giant - the king crab.

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu will spend RM340 million to upgrade its infrastructure and build a host of new facilities such as science and Islamic centres, several faculty buildings and an Olympic-standard sports centre.

The band of heavy precipitation indicates the intertropical convergence zone. The new findings are based on sediment cores from lakes and lagoons on Palau, Washington, Christmas and Galapagos islands.

NEW ROCHELLE - Hundreds of dolphins have been swimming together in Long Island Sound, leaving witnesses in awe of the unusual occurrence.

Thomas Marshall, from Orford in Suffolk was hit by a car while out on his motorbike around 5pm on June 12, just hours after sitting two biology exams at Farlingaye High School in Woodbridge Photo: ALBANPIX Guy Marshall, 53, had no idea that his 18-year-old son Thomas was involved in the collision until he stepped out of the car and saw his body.

The sustainability of fisheries depends on the transparency with which coastal states incorporate scientific advice into policies, reports a study led by researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and published in the journal PLoS Biology.

The 64-foot Ocean Watch sailboat is circumnavigating the Americas to teach communities on both continents about the vulnerable, changing oceans.

Listen up! Carbon dioxide being absorbed by the oceans is having a puzzling effect on fish -- their ears get bigger.

According to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of California, San Diego rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean have been shown to adversely affect shell-forming creatures and corals, and now a new study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has shown for the first time that CO2 can impact a ...

This white sea bass is about 3 or 4 months old. The ear bones of juvenile sea bass appear to grow larger than normal a ' rather than smaller, as expected a ' when placed under high carbon dioxide conditions.

Nearly 200 scientists from Europe and China have gathered in Barcelona this week to report on the progress of ongoing Dragon 2 research projects using data from ESA and Chinese Earth observation satellites.

Using original simulations, they have demonstrated that the hole in the ozone layer reduces atmospheric carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean and contributes to the increase in ocean acidity.

In a paper in Nature Geoscience, a team from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton , along with colleagues from TA1 4bingen and Bristol presents a novel continuous reconstruction of sea level fluctuations over the last 520 thousand years.

June 22, 2009 -- An international oceanographic research expedition to the middle of the South Pacific Gyre -- a site that is as far from continents as it is possible to go on Earth's surface ? found so few organisms beneath the seafloor that it may be the least inhabited sediment ever explored for evidence of life.

Earths sea levels may rise 25 meters by 4000 AD despite CO2 freeze A new study on the effects of climate change on melting ice sheets has indicated that even if scientists could freeze-frame the atmospheric carbon dioxide as it is today, sea levels would still rise by 25 meters by 4000 AD.