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Category: Paleoceanography

Biogeochemistry Geology Natural History Paleoceanography Sea-level Rise Volcanoes

A 2.5 billion year old story about iron in the ocean, told by a rock

New light has been shed on the possibility of an alternative iron sink than previous thought prior to the oxygenation…
May 21, 2015May 21, 2015 Anne M. Hartwell
Biology Climate Change Coastal Management Conference Coral Ecology Paleoceanography

Best of Benthics

The Top 5: Highlights and notes from an eventful Benthic Ecology Meeting!
March 10, 2015March 10, 2015 Gordon Ober
Climate Change Paleoceanography

Just How Permanent was El Niño in the Past?

New data refutes the hypothesis that permanent El Niño conditions existed in the tropical Pacific more than 3 million years…
May 16, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
Biology Climate Change Paleoceanography

Ironing Out the Details of the Last Ice Age

"Give me a half tanker of iron and I will give you an ice age!", as was once said by…
April 17, 2014April 17, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
Paleoceanography

Rapid Reductions in North Atlantic Deep Water during the Peak of the Last Interglacial Period

North Atlantic deep water forms primarily in more extreme northern latitudes due to the colder, saltier water with a higher…
March 19, 2014 Caoxin Sun
Biology Climate Change Ecology Geology Paleoceanography

Hello Glaciers, Goodbye Winds!

With the intensification of glaciation in the northern hemisphere approximately 2.7 million years ago, the prominent westerly wind belts responded…
March 17, 2014March 9, 2016 Brian Caccioppoli
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Paleoceanography

We didn’t start the fire!… that changed the southeast Australian landscape 44 thousand years ago

A sediment core suggests that the large ecosystem changes that occurred in southeastern Australia were caused by the extinction of…
January 24, 2014January 24, 2014 Kari St.Laurent
Climate Change Geology Paleoceanography

Reconstructing climate history from sediments in the Gulf of Taranto, Italy

What was the climate like in Southern Italy 10,000 years ago? This question and many more can be answered by…
January 15, 2014January 15, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Paleoceanography

Why lions can thank wildfires for the African Savanna

Sediment records show that wildfires caused the initial expansion of grasslands in Africa during the Miocene (8 million years ago)…
December 20, 2013December 23, 2013 Kari St.Laurent
Biogeochemistry Biology Chemistry Climate Change Ecology Fisheries Geology Paleoceanography Policy

Welcome to oceanbites!

I’m excited to announce the launch of oceanbites.org! Inspired by the successful and informative astrobites.org, oceanbites is a blog where…
September 16, 2013March 6, 2014 Carrie McDonough

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