Showing posts with label oceanography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oceanography. Show all posts
Friday, January 6, 2017

Will Global Warming Result In Europe Cooling Down?

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CONVEYOR BELT Rising temperatures could shut down the Atlantic Ocean current (depicted here) that helps warm northwestern Europe, a new ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The Most Detailed View Of The Earth's Seafloor To Date Has Been Released

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This map shows a global view of gravity changes. Shades of orange and red represent areas where seafloor gravity is stronger than the glo...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

A Better Map Of The Ocean Floor Has Been Produced

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The new gravity data gives us our clearest view yet of the shape of the ocean floor Satellites Detect 'Thousands' Of New Ocean...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Ocean's Carbon Capture Secrets Becoming Known

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Making waves: The Southern Ocean(Source: British Antarctic Survey) Ocean's Deep Carbon Secrets Revealed -- ABC News (Australia) New ligh...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Staying Sane On A Research Ship In The Middle Of The Ocean

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How To Stay Sane On A Ship In The Middle Of The Ocean -- Scientific American The Knorr is a big ship as far as research vessels go – but the...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Oceans Have Been Warming For 135 Years Ago

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The researchers compared ocean-temperature data collected in the 1870s by the Challenger vessel with modern data collected by the Argo proje...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

James Cameron's Successfully Completes Mariana Trench Pacific Dive

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James Cameron Describes Mariana Trench After Pacific Dive -- ABC News In 1997 James Cameron famously sent the RMS Titanic to the ocean floor...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

James Cameron Heading To The Bottom Of The Mariana Trench

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James Cameron emerges from the hatch of Deepsea Challenger during testing of the submersible in Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, Australia in 20...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Preparing To Dive To The Deepest Part Of The Ocean

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The sub is designed for one person and is fitted with 3D cameras James Cameron Close To Diving To Deepest Ocean -- BBC Director James Camero...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Oceans Acidifying At A Faster Rate Than At Any Time In The Last 300 Million Years

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Will they survive? (Image: Reinhard Dirscherl/Waterframe/Getty Images) Oceans Acidifying At Unprecedented Speed -- New Scientist Humanity...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Marine Life Census Charts Vast Undersea World

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This new copepod, Ceratonotus steiningeri, was first discovered 5,400 metres deep in the Angola Basin in 2006. It was also collected in the ...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Study Identifies More Than A Million Ocean Species

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Photograph: British Antarctic Survey From The Guardian: The Census of Marine Life is finally complete after a decade of work by 2,700 scient...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

The Robotic Otter: Underwater Robot That Swims With Flippers And Can Be Controlled With A Tablet Computer

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The AQUA robot uses flippers to move and now will no longer need to be tethered From The Daily Mail: Scientists have developed a remote-cont...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Ocean Cooling Contributed to Mid-20th Century Global Warming Hiatus

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Iceberg in the icefjord near the city of Ilulissat in Greenland. While the temperature drop was evident in data from all Northern Hemisphere...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Warming In Deep Southern Ocean Linked To Sea-Level Rise

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From Live Science: Warming waters in the deep ocean surrounding Antarctica has contributed to sea-level rise over the past two decades, scie...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Only Two Men Have Reached The Deepest Part Of The Sea

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Explorers Jacques Picard and Don Walsh reached the very deepest point of the ocean on January 23, 1960 As Director James Cameron Plans To Fi...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Dry Regions Becoming Drier: Ocean Salinities Show an Intensified Water Cycle

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An Argo robotic profiling instrument being deployed from the research vessel, Southern Surveyor. (Credit: Alicia Navidad) From Live Science:...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Hawaiian Submarine Canyons Are Hotspots Of Biodiversity And Biomass For Seafloor Animal Communities

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Large gorgonian observed at 650 m off the North Coast of Moloka i, dubbed "Cousin It." (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Ha...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Oceanology: Robot 'Gliders' Swim The Undersea World

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Engage the wave drive (Image: Liquid Robotics) From New Scientist: THE way we study oceans could be transformed by a high-tech "surfboa...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Gulf Stream 'Is Not Slowing Down'

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From The BBC: The Gulf Stream does not appear to be slowing down, say US scientists who have used satellites to monitor tell-tale changes in...