Oceans - Eos

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Paleoclimate Patterns Offer Hints About Future Warming

Underwater Glacier-Guarding Walls Could Have Unintended Consequences

Mysteriously Bright Waters near Antarctica Explained

A First Look at How Sand Behaves Inside a Rippled Bed

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coral reefs

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Coral Reefs

Coral Cores Pinpoint Onset of Industrial Deforestation

A Coral Core Archive Designed for Transparency and Accessibility

Coastal Models Quantify How Natural Islands Respond to Sea Level Rise

Unlocking Climate Secrets of Hawai‘i’s Drowned Reefs

“Pretty much everyone agrees that there have been ice shelves in the Arctic Ocean. The question is, When exactly did they exist, for how long, and where?”
leonid polyak, Arctic Ice Shelf Theory Challenged by Ancient Algae

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Cruise to Measure Gulf Dead Zone Faces Stormy Funding Future

Funding cuts are affecting The Pelican’s annual hypoxia cruise to investigate the environmental conditions off the coast of Louisiana.

by Elise Plunk

Inside a Georgia Beach’s High-Tech Fight Against Erosion

Armed with drones and lasers, scientists are creating detailed 3D maps of Tybee Island’s shifting shoreline.

by Emily Jones

Equatorial Deep Ocean Response to the Madden-Julian Oscillation

The changes in Madden-Julian Oscillation wind can trigger a response in the deep equatorial Pacific and Indian Ocean.  

by Xin Wang

Scrambling to Study Smoke on the Water

Timely action shows the impact of urban fires on freshwater and marine ecosystems.

by Grace van Deelen

NASA Mission Creates a New Global Coastal Bathymetry Product

NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) mission recently released a new shallow water bathymetry product, which has already delivered data for 13.7 million kilometers of coastal waters.

by Cathleen Jones

Arctic Ice Shelf Theory Challenged by Ancient Algae

Chemical signatures of marine organisms reveal that seasonal sea ice, not a massive ice shelf, persisted in the southern Arctic Ocean for 750,000 years.

by Andrew Chapman

Decadal Forecasts with a SMYLE

Scientists use a large suite of simulations with an established climate model to predict the Pacific Decadal Oscillation up to one year in advance, but El Niño can still get in the way.

by Kristopher B. Karnauskas

Un repositorio de núcleos de coral diseñado para la transparencia y accesibilidad

CoralCT archiva datos originales y procesados de núcleos de corales y arrecifes, preservando información valiosa sobre cómo los corales responden a cambios medioambientales.

by Avi Strange, Oliwia Jasnos, Lauren T. Toth, Nancy G. Prouty and Thomas M. DeCarlo

Iron Emissions Are Shifting a North Pacific Plankton Bloom

Some of the iron emitted by industrial activity in East Asia is carried by winds into the North Pacific, where it nourishes iron-hungry phytoplankton.

by Mark DeGraff

Scientists Ask NSF to Keep Only Antarctic Icebreaker Afloat

On 28 July, more than 170 researchers sent a letter to National Science Foundation leaders and Congress, urging them to reconsider the decision to terminate the lease of the Nathaniel B. Palmer, the United States’ only Antarctic research vessel-icebreaker (RVIB) and a key part of science operations around the White Continent.