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Pacific Ocean

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Large Variability Measured in Kuroshio Current East of Taiwan

by Terri Cook 21 September 201520 July 2022

Ship surveys show that the "Gulf Stream" of the Pacific is not a stable boundary current.

Posted inScience Updates

Focusing Attention on Climate Change and Pacific Island Nations

by D. Wuebbles, W. Higgins and H.-C. Chien 3 August 201525 May 2022

The 2014 Pan Pacific Partnership on Climate Change Adaptation; Taipei, Taiwan, 29 September to 2 October 2014

Posted inScience Updates

New Insights from Seafloor Mapping of a Hawaiian Marine Monument

by C. Kelley, J. R. Smith, J. Miller, J. Tree, B. Boston, M. Garcia, G. Ito, J. Taylor, F. Lichowski, D. Wagner, J. Leonard, B. Dechnik and D. Leurs 28 May 201512 January 2023

New surveys help untangle the complex geologic history of the Hawaiian Archipelago and provide hints about where to seek marine life.

Posted inNews

Tracking the Missing Heat from the Global Warming Hiatus

by C. Reed 21 May 20159 December 2022

Despite indications that the Pacific Ocean is helping to take up the world's missing surface heat, the heat doesn't linger; oceanographers now find that heat has moved over to the Indian Ocean.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Survival of Young Sardines Flushed Out to Open Ocean

by J. Rosen 4 March 201522 July 2022

Despite favorable conditions within eddies and streamers that form ideal habitats for larval sardines, the young fish may not survive when flushed into the open ocean.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Salish Sea a Key Source of Regional Marine Nutrients

by E. Betz 3 March 201516 February 2023

A new examination of nitrogen in the coastal waters off the Pacific Northwest shows that the Salish Sea delivers a large fraction of nutrients to shelf waters.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

What Drove Sea Surface Temperature Change During the Pleistocene?

by J. Orwig 2 March 20153 July 2023

New information suggests that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration was just one of the main drivers of warming sea surface temperatures in the Pleistocene.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tracking Down a Subduction Zone Earthquake

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 13 February 201524 August 2023

Researchers use computer simulations to find the date and earthquake source of an ancient tsunami that deposited sediment in a Hawaii sinkhole.

Posted inNews

Pacific Plate's Underbelly Revealed Through Explosive Means

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 11 February 20155 October 2022

Scientists produce their own seismic waves—via explosives—to image the bottom region of the plate subducting under the New Zealand.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Seafloor Changes Above the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake Rupture Zone

by J. Orwig 19 December 20148 December 2022

Three years after the devastating earthquake, transponders record afterslip deformation on the seabed above the Tohoku-Oki rupture zone.

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