Paleoceanography

The Top 5: Highlights and notes from an eventful Benthic Ecology Meeting!

New data refutes the hypothesis that permanent El Niño conditions existed in the tropical Pacific more than 3 million years…

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

North Atlantic deep water forms primarily in more extreme northern latitudes due to the colder, saltier water with a higher…

With the intensification of glaciation in the northern hemisphere approximately 2.7 million years ago, the prominent westerly wind belts responded…

A sediment core suggests that the large ecosystem changes that occurred in southeastern Australia were caused by the extinction of…

What was the climate like in Southern Italy 10,000 years ago? This question and many more can be answered by…

Sediment records show that wildfires caused the initial expansion of grasslands in Africa during the Miocene (8 million years ago)…

I’m excited to announce the launch of oceanbites.org! Inspired by the successful and informative astrobites.org, oceanbites is a blog where…