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Atlantic Ocean

Instruments aboard the container ship Oleander have collected data on plankton since the 1970s.
Posted inScience Updates

Packing Science into a Shipping Vessel

by T. Rossby, R. Curry and J. Palter 28 April 201718 October 2022

Oleander Workshop II: 25 Years of Operations; Narragansett, Rhode Island, 26–27 October 2016

Photomicrogram of sediment coarse fraction from Heinrich Event 1, including forams and grains transported by icebergs.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Iceberg Surge During Last Deglaciation May Have Had Two Pulses

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 27 April 20174 May 2022

Seafloor sediment cores provide new clues that could help clarify the influence of ice sheet collapse on a period of ocean cooling marked by slowed deepwater circulation.

A new study uncovers the influence of sediments from high-discharge events on the transfer of momentum between water layers in the Guadalquivir River Estuary.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Dam Discharge Events Alter Water Flow in an Estuary in Spain

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 24 April 20171 February 2023

Three-year observations suggest that increased sediment concentrations inhibit vertical transfer of momentum between water layers for more than 2 months after a high-discharge event.

Link between Atlantic sea surface temperatures and tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific could improve future cyclone forecasts.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Two-Way Relationship Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

by B. Bane 3 March 201715 February 2023

Researchers have uncovered a new connection between sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic and tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific that could improve accuracies of future cyclone forecasts.

Researchers tie dissolved organic carbon in the Gulf of Maine to changes in precipitation and runoff in New England.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Climate Change Affects the Flow of Carbon from Land to Sea

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 14 February 201730 June 2025

Changes in precipitation and runoff in New England may be driving more dissolved organic carbon into the Gulf of Maine.

Santa Maria Island cliff
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Scientists Offer New Explanation for Island's Unexpected Uplift

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 17 November 20163 May 2022

Researchers developed a new timeline for the rise, fall, and rise again of a puzzling island in the Azores.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tracing the North Atlantic's Bottom Waters

by Terri Cook 16 November 20163 June 2024

Chemicals released by two European nuclear fuel reprocessing plants, along with certain chlorofluorocarbons, are helping to constrain the speed and behavior of North Atlantic deep-ocean circulation.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

High-Resolution Ocean Model Captures Large-Scale Heat Transport

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 28 October 201622 July 2022

A lower-resolution model is sufficient to capture air-sea interactions, but a high-resolution model better simulates average sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic.

Small colony of the black coral Bathypathes.
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Obama Unveils First Marine National Monument in the Atlantic

by Randy Showstack 19 September 201621 December 2023

The new designation follows the administration's expansion last month of a marine sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii into the world's largest protected ocean area.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Predicting Temperature Shifts off the U.S. East Coast

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 20 June 201611 January 2022

New research reveals the relative importance of oceanic and atmospheric processes in year-to-year changes in ocean temperature along the Middle Atlantic Bight.

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