Researchers solve mystery of deep-sea fish with tubular eyes and transparent head

...bout Macropinna microstoma also apply to other deep-sea fish with tubular eyes. The bizarre physiological adaptations of the barreleyes have puzzled oceanographers for generations. It is only with the advent of modern underwater robots that scientists have been able to observe such animals in their native environ...

The 2009 Leibniz Prize: Eleven new scientific discoverers

...person ever to describe this process, called anaerobic oxidation of methane, or AOM, which was of equally great interest to ecologists, geologists and oceanographers as it was to microbiologists and biochemists. With her research work Boetius has made a decisive contribution to the understanding of one of the most ...

ESA contributes to ocean carbon cycle research

...the merged data are better than data from the three individual sensors. In addition to aiding carbon cycle research, ocean colour data can provide oceanographers with the information they need to monitor the state of the oceans for other applications, such as for the fisheries and aquaculture industries. Gl...

oceanographers in Biological News

Highest ever winter water temperatures recorded

...ating north of Australia. Satellites have given oceanographers an insight into a remarkable phenomenon a signifi...ar Maria Island on Tasmania's east coast. CSIRO oceanographers Katy Hill, David Griffin and George Cresswell stud...nding on how strongly each current is flowing. oceanographers believe the EAC has gradually been getting stronge...

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

...09GL038359, 2009; http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL038359 12. Seasonal winds might drive current variability in the northern Indian Ocean oceanographers and meteorologists need to understand the forces driving upper ocean currents and sea level variability. To study the dynamics of the response of the ...

Researchers report 'moderately large' potential for red tide outbreak in Gulf of Maine region

...redicted months in advance. That's where computer modeling can help. While cyst abundance gives a general indication of the magnitude of the bloom, oceanographers Dennis McGillicuddy, a senior scientist in the WHOI Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering department, and his colleague Ruoying He of North Carolina S...

Marine scientists warn of potential for spring, summer red tide outbreak in Gulf of Maine

...redicted months in advance. That's where computer modeling can help. While cyst abundance gives a general indication of the magnitude of the bloom, oceanographers Dennis McGillicuddy of WHOI and Ruoying He of NCSU have been working with Anderson to better understand the growth and transport of the toxic cells us...

Phytoplankton cell membranes challenge fundamentals of biochemistry

...s-starved cell greedily absorbs it. For comparison, in the Pacific Ocean phosphorus may linger for nearly a year before being used by plankton. But oceanographers find phytoplankton living and growing rather well in the Sargasso Sea. In particular, small photosynthetic bacteria called cyanobacteria flourish in a...

Fishdunnit! Mystery solved

...um-rich seawater. The ocean becomes more alkaline at much shallower depths than prior knowledge of carbonate chemistry would suggest which has puzzled oceanographers for decades. The new findings of fish-produced calcium carbonate provides an explanation: fish produce more soluble forms of calcium carbonate, which ...

Ecologists use oceanographic data to predict future climate change

... Ecologists and oceanographers are attempting to predict the future impacts of climate change by reconstructing the past behavior of Arctic climate and ocean circulation. In a No...

Research around the North Pole

...c Ocean must be rethought on the basis of the new data", concludes Jokat. oceanographers regularly collect data on water temperature, density and salinity from the ...es which autonomously conduct these measurements over one or two years. The oceanographers can thereby better understand how the water masses circulate in the Arctic ...

Modest CO2 cutbacks may be too little, too late for coral reefs

... marine ecosystems even if atmospheric carbon dioxide stabilizes at 450 ppm, a level well below that of many climate change forecasts, report chemical oceanographers Long Cao and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in the journal Geophysical Research Letters . The researchers...

RV Polarstern on its way to East Siberian Sea

...truct temperature and ice cover up to one million years ago. Presently, organic carbon reaches the Arctic Ocean via rivers as well. For this reason oceanographers are interested in the East Siberian Sea. Similar to former cruise stages, they sample water and monitor temperature, salinity and depth. Additionally,...

oceanographers in Biological Technology

The sea ice is getting thinner

...ndling ocean in collaboration with international researchers said Schauer. oceanographers on board the research ship Polarstern are investigating the composition and...sures about a metre in diameter in the central Arctic Basin. In addition, oceanographers have found a particularly high concentration of melt-water in the ocean and...