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Tag: carbon cycle

S’not your typical carbon capture
Biological oceanography

S’not your typical carbon capture

This mucus-making microbe deploys a snotty strategy for cycling carbon in the ocean. Reference: Larsson, M.E., Bramucci, A.R., Collins, S.…
April 19, 2022April 12, 2022 Fayth Tan
Tying Prehistoric Climate Change to Oceanic Methane
Climate Change

Tying Prehistoric Climate Change to Oceanic Methane

Scientists from Texas A&M use preserved microbial lipids to tie prehistoric climate change to widespread oceanic methane release.
April 13, 2022 Amanda Semler
Unicellular Predators Feast at Hydrothermal Vents
Ecology

Unicellular Predators Feast at Hydrothermal Vents

Hydrothermal vent fluids support an intriguing food web, and unicellular protistan predators play an outsized role.
August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 Amanda Semler
Does history repeat itself?: Investigating the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Atmospheric Chemistry Chemistry Climate Change Ocean Acidification thermodynamics

Does history repeat itself?: Investigating the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Everyone knows that Earth's climate changes. With the rapid increases in human-influenced global warming and ocean acidification, we need to…
October 28, 2020 Daniel Speer
Impact of Climate Change on Antarctic Waters
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Ocean Acidification Physical oceanography

Impact of Climate Change on Antarctic Waters

A recent study demonstrate the critical importance of Antarctic winds and meltwater to modeling the recent observed changes in Southern…
January 16, 2020 Channing Prend
Key Role of Sea Ice in Glacial Cycles
Biogeochemistry Paleoceanography Physical oceanography Sea Ice

Key Role of Sea Ice in Glacial Cycles

A recent study using an idealized model finds that changes in Antarctic sea ice and circulation, triggered by atmospheric cooling,…
November 20, 2019 Channing Prend
How important is carbon export by ocean eddies?
Biogeochemistry Physical oceanography

How important is carbon export by ocean eddies?

A recent paper uses an ocean model to investigate the relative importance of carbon sequestration by eddies transporting phytoplankton into…
September 20, 2019 Channing Prend
Antarctic Eddies Suck Carbon from the Atmosphere
Biochemistry Climate Change Physical oceanography Remote Sensing

Antarctic Eddies Suck Carbon from the Atmosphere

A recent study from researchers at the University of Tasmania investigates the relationship between ocean eddies and phytoplankton growth in…
September 4, 2018 Channing Prend
What’s happening to carbon in the warming Arctic?
Climate Change

What’s happening to carbon in the warming Arctic?

The Arctic, warming at unprecedented rates, is undergoing profound changes. Using recent atmospheric CO2 measurements, Su-Jong Jeong and his colleagues…
July 30, 2018July 31, 2018 Julia Dohner
Biogeochemistry Climate Change

Suffocating crabs and a one-way street for carbon

Seafloor life is in danger of running out of oxygen as the ocean warms, but this may actually help to…
April 26, 2017April 25, 2017 Michael Graw
Book Review Physical oceanography

Oceans absorb more carbon with weaker ocean circulation

A team of researchers investigate why the ocean has been absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere in recent decades, and…
March 9, 2017 Veronica Tamsitt
Chemistry

Beyond CO2: Chemical Consequences of Our Love Affair with Fossil Fuels

Our world relies heavily on the burning of biological materials such as wood or fossil fuels to harness energy. While…
September 30, 2016September 29, 2016 Carrie McDonough
Biology Chemistry

Coral Reefs Suffering from Ocean Acidification

Researchers investigated natural trends in carbonate chemistry of the Davies Reef flat in the central Great Barrier Reef on diel…
October 16, 2013 Caoxin Sun

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