Category: Ocean Science
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A disappearing underwater world
From the NYT Scientists at Work feature, by Dr. Mark Hay of Georgia Tech: Despite my growing up in Kentucky, not having a passport until my early 20s and not seeing a tropical coral reef until I was in graduate school, whenever I step off a plane in the tropics, I feel like I’ve come…
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Ice in sight
We just crossed over 60 degrees South latitude, and are seeing ice for the first time! I don’t care how many times I come down here… sea ice never gets boring. It’s hypnotic, watching it rise and fall with the waves, listening to it scrape and slush against the ship’s hull. For now it’s just…
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Flying South for the Winter: I’m Going to Antarctica!
I write to you from a ship in the middle of the ocean, somewhere off the tip of Chile. Later tonight, my boat will be in the Drake Passage: notoriously the roughest seas on Earth. I left my home in North Carolina on Tuesday, and some 30 hours later I was standing on a pier…
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How many gray whales were there?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsIhzv8bv_0&feature=fvsr[/youtube]
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Acid test – the other carbon problem
A well done movie about ocean acidification – the other carbon problem. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqCvcX7buo&[/youtube]
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A salt marsh climate change experiment
A few miles outside Washington, D.C., a team of scientists from the Smithsonian Institution are predicting the impact elevated atmospheric carbon levels could have on our world. That’s nothing new, as scientists around the world work on the same problem every day. But what sets their work apart is what they’re studying to make predictions:…
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Live blog: World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 2011
The second triennial World Conference on Marine Biodiversity begins next week in Aberdeen, Scotland, and your dedicated SeaMonster reporter will be on the scene. We will be trying something new and experimental (for us, at least) — pseudo-live blogging from the Conference site, covering late-breaking news on marine research advances, marine conservation, fantastic new animals,…
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Earthquake destroys Belizean reefs
A new paper in Ecology (Aronson et al 2011) describes the effects of an earthquake on the already beleagured reefs of Belize. I edited the paper and coincidentally my lab was in Belize doing reef surveys when the earthquake hit (I flew home that day). Some of the students were a bit rattled, others slept…
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What causes short term changes in ocean heat?
From Skeptical Science by John Cook. Read it all here. Over the past 40 years, global ocean heat content has shown a long term warming trend. However, the warming hasn’t been monotonic. There are periods where ocean heat drops for several years before the warming trend resumes. On several occasions, this is due to large volcanic…
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John Cook wins Eureka award!
John Cook, creator of the must read climate change blog Skeptical Science, has just been awarded the Eureka Prize for the advancement of climate change knowledge by New South Wales Government: Debunking Climate Lies No Longer Hit and Myth Climate-change deniers have nowhere to hide thanks to an ingenious piece of software that detects inaccurate…