Seagrasses turn back the clock on ocean acidification
Expansive study shows seagrass meadows can buffer ocean acidificationCredit: Melissa Ward, UC Davis Spanning six years and seven seagrass meadows ...
Tag: Oceanography
Professor Qingwei Ma seeks to unlock the potential of marine wave energy
The City, University of London academic will lead on the development of a new generation modelling suite, combining machine learning ...
Groundwater discharge affects water quality in coastal waters
Credit: Isaac Santos Water quality management in the ocean often targets visible pollution sources such as sewage, rivers or ships. ...
HKBU-led research unlocks the genomic secrets of organisms that thrive in extreme deep-sea
Credit: (Drawn by HKBU student Hu Juntong) A study led by scientists at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has decoded ...
Arctic sponge survival in the extreme deep-sea
Credit: Copyright: NIOZ For the first time, researchers from the SponGES project collected year-round video footage and hydrodynamic data from ...
Tiny currents may impact vital ocean food source
Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Copepods are tiny crustaceans about the size of a grain of rice, but they ...
New basalt type discovered beneath the ocean
Credit: EXP 351 Science Team A new type of rock created during large and exceptionally hot volcanic eruptions has been ...
Virtues of modeling many faults: New method illuminates shape of Alaskan quake
A University of Tsukuba research team find that the irregular behavior of the conjugate fault system responsible for the 2018 ...
Twice as much carbon flowing from land to ocean than previously thought
Credit: Eun Young Kwon Every year 600-900 million tons of carbon flow through rivers to the ocean either as particles ...
‘By-the-wind sailor’ jellies wash ashore in massive numbers after warmer winters
Credit: COASST As their name suggests, by-the-wind sailor jellyfish know how to catch a breeze. Using a stiff, translucent sail ...
What is the probability of ships becoming beset in ice in Arctic waters?
Credit: Photo: Arctia Ltd Statisticians have calculated the probability of ships of different Polar Ship Categories becoming beset in ice ...
The Blue Economy is more than resources: It has to focus on social equity and governance
Credit: Andres Cisneros-Montemayor The future of an equitable and sustainable global ocean, or "Blue Economy," depends on more than the ...
Polarstern expedition investigates massive calved iceberg
Experts explore for the first time life on the seafloor in a region formerly covered by thick iceCredit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / ...
Modeling the probability of methane hydrate deposits on the seafloor
Sandia scientists use machine learning to find fuel source, climate-change driverCredit: Image courtesy of William Eymold/Sandia National Laboratories RALEIGH, N.C. ...
Researchers study public comments on orca conservation to aid future protection efforts
Credit: Kelly Biedenweg CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers analyzed more than 17,000 public comments focused on orca conservation ...
Oil in the ocean photooxides within hours to days, new study finds
Study provides new details on the fate of spilled oil in the marine environment, effectiveness of chemical dispersantsCredit: MODIS on ...
Zealandia Switch may be the missing link in understanding ice age climates
Credit: Photo courtesy of Aaron Putnam Orono, Maine -- The origins of ice age climate changes may lie in the ...
Rise of marine predators reshaped ocean life as dramatically as sudden mass extinctions
Credit: Jeff Gage/Florida Museum of Natural History GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Evolutionary arms races between marine animals overhauled ocean ecosystems on ...
NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite reveals shape, depth of Antarctic ice shelf fractures
Credit: Shujie Wang, Penn State When a block of ice the size of Houston, Texas, broke off from East Antarctica's ...
High-resolution ocean model provides insight into sea turtles’ lost years
Model shows where hatchlings likely travel in the open oceanCredit: Cheryl Harrison An exquisitely detailed global ocean model simulation from ...