Articles Tagged “ocean”
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Deep ocean creatures depend on surface weather
Since their discovery in the 1970s, submarine hydrothermal sources (structures on the ocean bottom, throwing hot water and dissolved minerals around) have been one from the hottest topics in marine biology. It supports populations of…
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Geologists Revisit Earth’s Great Oxygenation Event: More Like the ‘Great Redox Evolution’
In “The Sign of the Four” Sherlock Holmes tells Watson he has written a monograph on 140 forms of cigar-, cigarette-, and pipe-tobacco, “with colored plates illustrating the difference in the ash.” He finds the…
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Bacterial ‘Food Supplements’ for Small Algae
To boost their diet of mineral nutrients and sunlight, small algae also feast on bacteria in order to grow and fix carbon dioxide (CO2). Understanding more about the lifestyle of small algae — which are…
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A more balanced approach using marine spatial planning
The old balkanized approach to ocean management, in which different resources and activities are governed by different laws and administered by different agencies, has failed to protect ocean ecosystems or reduce conflicts between ocean users,…
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Floundering El Ninos Make For Fickle Forecasts
Since May 2009, the tropical Pacific Ocean has switched from a cool pattern of ocean circulation known as La Niña to her warmer sibling, El Niño. This cyclical warming of the ocean waters in the…
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Oceanographers Examine Mercury Levels Of Pelagic Fish In Hawaii
In the open ocean, species of large predatory fish will swim and hunt for food at various depths, which leads to unique diets in these fish. Oceanographers and geologists in the School of Ocean and…
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Satellite Detects Red Glow To Map Global Ocean Plant Health
Researchers from Oregon State University, NASA and other organizations said today that they have succeeded for the first time in measuring the physiology of marine phytoplankton through satellite measurements of its fluorescence – an accomplishment…
