Paleoceanography
Can bumps in the seafloor explain glacial-interglacial cycles?
The best scientific theories bring lots of things together in unexpected ways. This one has ice ages, seafloor volcanoes, sea…
Author: cael
Cael was once told by a professor that applied mathematicians are ‘intellectual dilettantes,’ which has been a proud self-identification for Cael since that moment. Cael is a graduate student at MIT & Woods Hole, & studies the ocean from a mathematical perspective; right now Cael is trying to figure out how detailed our measurements of phytoplankton communities can be if we detect them from space. Otherwise, Cael plays accordion, gardens, & reads instead of sleeping like it’s still fifth grade.
Book Review Physical oceanography
A salty ocean makes a happy home (planet)
The first things we learn about the ocean are that it’s big and salty. We know that its bigness is…
Conservation
Unbelizeable, part II
A fieldwork faerie tale about an art/island paradise/conservation opportunity gone right
Conservation
Unbelizeable, part I
A fieldwork faerie tale about an art/island paradise/conservation opportunity gone right
Sea Turtles
The ocean + a blind turtle + some driftwood = lucky to be human
Today we’ll take a detour from our usual format to do a quick ‘back-of-the-envelope’ calculation about Buddhism and why being…
Sea Ice
How thick is polar ice?
Based on a simple theory, the authors of this study are able to make a prediction about the distribution of…
Ecology
Comparing all the ecosystems ever reveals cool patterns about their structure
Who’d guess that if you took the data from >2000 ecosystem studies and smashed them all together there’d be some…
Biogeochemistry
Ocean eddies suck carbon out of the atmosphere, thanks to plankton
When phytoplankton sink into the deep ocean, they take carbon with them, storing CO2 away from the atmosphere. This new…