Book Review Sea Ice Atlantic confirmed as accomplice in Arctic sea ice loss A team of scientist gathered new evidence from the Arctic Ocean, revealing a new suspect responsible for rapidly melting Arctic…
Climate Change Is the Deep Ocean Warming Too? It’s been shown that the surface of the South Pacific Ocean has been warming by absorbing excess heat from the…
Sea-level Rise Tide records could have underestimated global sea level rise New analysis of 100 years of sea level measurements from tide gauges show that we might be underestimating the global…
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…
Book Review Physical oceanography 12,000 feet under the sea, from space A pair of scientists have figured out how to track deep ocean currents using gravity measurements from space.
Modeling Arctic could become more biologically productive as ice melts As Arctic sea-ice melts away, organisms will be exposed to more light and, potentially, more nutrients. Recent model work suggests…
Physical oceanography Oceanbites Mingles With ArcticMix (Part 3) This is part 3 of 3 in a series on the recent ArcticMix expedition aimed at improving ocean models that…
Climate Change Modeling Physical oceanography Science Communication Oceanbites Mingles With ArcticMix (Part 1) This is part 1 of 3 interview posts on the ArcticMix voyage. Scientists share their experiences with life aboard a…
Biogeochemistry Chemistry Waiter, there’s a whale in my soup: investigating the South Pacific garbage patch Plastic debris has been found in both the North Pacific and North Atlantic since the early 1970s. It accumulates in…