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With Climate, Fertilizing Oceans Could be Zero-Sum Game

January 27, 2016

In Pacific, Added Iron May Not Pull Carbon From Air as Thought
Study Tracks an Abrupt Climate Shift as Ice Age Glaciers Began to Retreat

January 22, 2016

That change would have affected the monsoons, today relied on to feed over half the world’s population, and could have helped tip the climate system over the threshold for deglaciation.
In Isolation, Community

January 19, 2016

Being aboard a ship is isolating—but for a scientist, it’s not lonely.
It’s Beginning to Look Not a Lot Like Christmas

January 8, 2016

Much of the eastern two-thirds of the United States was balmy on Christmas Day, with high temperatures more than 20°F above average from Texas to Maine. According to NOAA, 789 daily high temperature records were tied or broken on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the continental United States. What’s behind this unusual weather?
The Floor of the Ocean Comes into Better Focus

January 7, 2016

The bottom of the ocean just keeps getting better. Or at least more interesting to look at.
All I Wanted for Christmas Was for These Pumps to Work

December 30, 2015

We’ve just completed our first full station and are remarkably pleased with the results. We collected 8 seawater samples to measure helium isotopes; 20 to measure thorium and protactinium isotopes; 7 in-situ pump filters; 1 box core of the ocean floor; and more.
New App Explores Ice and Sea Level Change Through Time

December 30, 2015

Lamont-Doherty Scientists Create ‘Polar Explorer: Sea Level’
Doing Science When There’s No Science to Be Done

December 22, 2015

With an abundance of time and a dearth of work, we have begun to devise ways of doing science before we can actually do science at sea. Among other things, we set up an imaging system to take pictures of particle filters we bring back from the deep sea.
Detecting Landslides from a Few Seismic Wiggles

December 18, 2015

Over the last six years, seismologists Göran Ekström and Colin Stark have been perfecting a technique for picking out the seismic signature of large landslides. They just discovered North America’s largest known landslide in many years – 200 million tons of sliding rock in Alaska.

With Climate, Fertilizing Oceans Could be Zero-Sum Game

January 27, 2016

In Pacific, Added Iron May Not Pull Carbon From Air as Thought
Study Tracks an Abrupt Climate Shift as Ice Age Glaciers Began to Retreat

January 22, 2016

That change would have affected the monsoons, today relied on to feed over half the world’s population, and could have helped tip the climate system over the threshold for deglaciation.
In Isolation, Community

January 19, 2016

Being aboard a ship is isolating—but for a scientist, it’s not lonely.
It’s Beginning to Look Not a Lot Like Christmas

January 8, 2016

Much of the eastern two-thirds of the United States was balmy on Christmas Day, with high temperatures more than 20°F above average from Texas to Maine. According to NOAA, 789 daily high temperature records were tied or broken on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the continental United States. What’s behind this unusual weather?
The Floor of the Ocean Comes into Better Focus

January 7, 2016

The bottom of the ocean just keeps getting better. Or at least more interesting to look at.
All I Wanted for Christmas Was for These Pumps to Work

December 30, 2015

We’ve just completed our first full station and are remarkably pleased with the results. We collected 8 seawater samples to measure helium isotopes; 20 to measure thorium and protactinium isotopes; 7 in-situ pump filters; 1 box core of the ocean floor; and more.
New App Explores Ice and Sea Level Change Through Time

December 30, 2015

Lamont-Doherty Scientists Create ‘Polar Explorer: Sea Level’
Doing Science When There’s No Science to Be Done

December 22, 2015

With an abundance of time and a dearth of work, we have begun to devise ways of doing science before we can actually do science at sea. Among other things, we set up an imaging system to take pictures of particle filters we bring back from the deep sea.
Detecting Landslides from a Few Seismic Wiggles

December 18, 2015

Over the last six years, seismologists Göran Ekström and Colin Stark have been perfecting a technique for picking out the seismic signature of large landslides. They just discovered North America’s largest known landslide in many years – 200 million tons of sliding rock in Alaska.