Ocean acidification “provides a case study of a way that we can drive forward bipartisan action on an environmental issue,” says an Ocean Conservancy scientist.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Blue whale calls have been mysteriously dropping pitch for decades. A new study describes the same trend in fin whales and suggests the global pitch drop may be a side effect of singing less loudly.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Upwelling hinders an efficient method to estimate a key measure of biological productivity in coastal waters, but accounting for surface temperatures could boost accuracy.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Samoan corals record how patterns of warm/cool and more/less salty in the equatorial Pacific changed in space and time over the last 500 years.Read More »Ocean Sciences
With refreezing in the western Arctic Ocean shifting later into the autumn, field research on changing air-ocean-ice interactions suggests that the Arctic is shifting to a more seasonal system.Read More »Biogeosciences
Workshop on Developing an Implementation Plan for a Sustained, Multidisciplinary Global Observing System of Plankton Communities; Santa Cruz, California, 25–27 June 2018Read More »Ocean Sciences
A thermodynamic function of the potential spicity is defined and it is orthogonal to the potential density in the least square sense.Read More »Ocean Sciences
A method for estimating potential spicity, a thermodynamic variable in oceanography, provides a new way to describe contrasts in watermass properties.Read More »Ocean Sciences
The Gulf of Maine’s location at the meeting point of two major currents, as well as its shallow depth and shape, makes it especially susceptible to warming.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Few studies have examined lakes or wide swaths of ocean areas, leaving critical data gaps in how plastic pollution affects wildlife and moves across food webs.Read More »
