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Hydrothermal Vents

December 5th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has a nice presentation on hydrothermal vents. There are lots of interesting things to learn… such as why the boiling point of water rises when you descend deep into the ocean

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Global Phytoplankton Levels Have Declined for a Century

August 2nd, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

Research at Dalhousie University discovered that the global level of phytoplankton blooms have been declining for the past 110 years. A preliminary conclusion is that a rise in ocean temperature is limiting the amount of available nutrients.

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Climate Change and the Hard Parts of Marine Life

December 8th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

“A new study has yielded surprising findings about how the shells of marine organisms might stand up to an increasingly acidic ocean in the future.” Quoted from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution press release.

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Climate Change and the Hard Parts of Marine Life

December 8th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

“A new study has yielded surprising findings about how the shells of marine organisms might stand up to an increasingly acidic ocean in the future.” Quoted from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution press release.

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Using Model Airplanes to Fly Research Cameras

August 12th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Geology.com

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has an article about how one of their staff engineers built a model plane to acquire images of Arctic Ocean ice floes and coral reefs.

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