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Kelp in Monterey Bay, Calif., is seen from below the water surface
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Acidifying Oceans Could Get Help from Kelp

by Elizabeth Thompson 30 November 202010 February 2022

Forests of fast-growing kelp influence the chemistry of the water in which they live. A new study evaluates their potential to ameliorate ocean acidification in sensitive coastal ecosystems.

The entrance to the Hranice Abyss in the eastern Czech Republic.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

World’s Deepest Freshwater Cave May Be a Kilometer Deep

by Lauren Lipuma 8 September 2020

The Czech Republic’s Hranice Abyss is more than twice as deep as researchers thought.

Two oil-drilling platforms off the Long Beach, Calif., coast
Posted inNews

Los Costos Ecológicos de Remover las Plataformas Petroleras Mar Adentro en California

by Katherine Kornei 26 August 20206 October 2021

Las plataformas de perforación de petróleo- y gas-mar adentro son hábitats ricos para peces. Eliminarlas por completo resultaría en una pérdida del 95% de biomasa de peces, revela una nueva investigación.

Map of the world showing trajectories that transport water from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Posted inEditors' Highlights

A New Perspective on a Classic Climate Conundrum

by A. Giannini 6 August 202012 January 2022

The Lagrangian method applied to tracking water transport between the Atlantic and Pacific basins reveals a larger contribution by mid-latitude westerly winds across Eurasia than previously thought.

A view of corals just below the ocean surface off American Samoa
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Corals Make Reliable Recorders of El Niño Fluctuations

by Terri Cook 24 July 202029 September 2021

A new tool that reconciles modeling and paleoclimate data builds confidence that tropical Pacific corals reliably archive natural variability in the El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern.

Photograph of storm cloud over Indian Ocean
Posted inEditors' Vox

Mysterious Engine of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation

by C. Zhang 6 July 20208 March 2022

Understanding the fundamental physics of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation, a phenomenon that occurs over the Indian and Pacific Oceans, remains a challenge in tropical atmospheric research.

Dazzlingly lush canopy of the Akatarawa Forest, New Zealand
Posted inNews

New Evidence of a Giant Lava Lamp Beneath the Ancient Pacific

by Kate Evans 1 July 20204 October 2021

Seismic surveys find evidence of a superplume in Earth’s mantle that fueled ancient megaeruptions in the Pacific.

In September 2009, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in the Tonga Trench inundated towns in American Samoa.
Posted inScience Updates

Sensor Network Warns of Stealth Tsunamis

by B. Fry, S.-J. McCurrach, K. Gledhill, W. Power, M. Williams, M. Angove, D. Arcas and C. Moore 26 May 20206 June 2022

A next-generation network of seismic and wave sensors in the southwestern Pacific will warn coastal residents of an approaching tsunami before they see the wave.

Large outrigger canoe silhouetted against an orange Hawaiian sky
Posted inNews

Humans Colonized Polynesia Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

by Richard J. Sima 13 May 20204 October 2021

Evidence from mud, charcoal, and feces suggests humans arrived in East Polynesia during the driest period in 2 millennia.

A satellite image showing a pumice raft floating on the ocean surface near Fiji and Tonga on 21 August 2019
Posted inScience Updates

Satellite Sleuthing Detects Underwater Eruptions

by P. A. Brandl 31 March 202018 January 2022

Satellite data helped scientists locate the volcanic source of a pumice raft floating in the South Pacific Ocean, illustrating their promise in locating and monitoring undersea eruptions.

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