Antarctic Circumpolar Current
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Key Ocean Current Contains a Warning on Climate
A new study shows that a giant current circling Antarctica has speeded up during past warm periods, eating away at the polar ice. It’s doing it again now.
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After a Long Wait, Expedition 383 Drills its First Seafloor Core
It took six days to sail to Point Nemo, the most inaccessible point of the ocean on this planet, to drill a sample from the ocean floor.
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New York City to Punta Arenas: The Beginning of Our Journey
Scientists aboard the R/V Joides Resolution prepare to set sail into the Southern Ocean.
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Lamont Oceanographer Recognized for Pioneering Work on Global Ocean Currents
An oceanographer who has painstakingly collected measurements from each of the world’s oceans to understand how the oceans move heat and freshwater around the planet to influence climate is the winner of the 2013 Prince Albert 1 Medal for outstanding contributions to oceanography, given by the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean…
