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Pacific Ocean

A view of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano erupting and flowing into the ocean
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Magnetic Anomalies on the Pacific Plate Reveal True Polar Wander

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 11 March 201920 December 2021

A new study rebuffs the standard approach to paleomagnetism and offers an updated methodology and new locations of paleomagnetic poles.

The open ocean
Posted inNews

Scientists Discover Evidence of Long “Ocean Memory”

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 7 February 201930 March 2023

Measurements from a 19th century scientific expedition have revealed that the deep Pacific waters are cooling from lower global temperatures centuries ago.

View from ship southeastern Alaska
Posted inScience Updates

The Future of Scientific Drilling in the North Pacific and Arctic

by L. L. Worthington, K. St. John and B. Coakley 1 February 201928 August 2023

International Ocean Discovery Program Workshop; Mount Hood, Oregon, 25–27 September 2018

A view of bleached coral
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How Ningaloo Niño Supercharges the El Niño–Southern Oscillation

by E. Underwood 11 January 201916 March 2023

The warm current cools the tropical Pacific and strengthens trade winds.

A view of Dixon Entrance off the west coast of British Columbia, Canada
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tool to Capture Marine Biological Activity Gets Coastal Upgrade

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 27 November 201814 April 2022

Upwelling hinders an efficient method to estimate a key measure of biological productivity in coastal waters, but accounting for surface temperatures could boost accuracy.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

What American Samoan Corals Tell About El Niño’s History

by E. Thomas 26 November 201830 March 2023

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.

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Successful Testing of Technique to Measure Seafloor Strain

by B. Pirenne 12 September 20186 October 2021

A new optical fiber interferometry strain sensor tested off the Oregon coast holds promising prospects for seafloor geodesy.

Methane bubbles escape from the seafloor off the Oregon coast.
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Audio Reveals Sizes of Methane Bubbles Rising from the Seafloor

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 6 August 20182 November 2021

A sensitive underwater microphone captures the sounds of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, escaping into waters off the coast of Oregon. Using this sound, researchers can estimate the bubbles’ sizes.

Western boundary current off Florida
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Energetics of Western Boundary Current Surface Flows Are Similar

by J. Sprintall 31 July 201822 July 2022

Despite different wind forcing and air-sea heating conditions, the surface layer energetics of two Western Boundary Current systems in different ocean basins are surprisingly similar.

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500 Years of Atmospheric River Landfalls in Southwestern USA

by V. Trouet 20 July 201815 February 2023

A network of tree-ring chronologies has been used to develop the first reconstruction of atmospheric river landfalls on the US Pacific Coast over the last 500 years.

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