Physical Oceanography of the Frontal Zones in Sub-Arctic Seas (Elsevier Oceanography Series)
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
It’s 0630 somewhere in the South Atlantic and Roger Chamberlain wakes, heads for the bridge and sends his latest update from the Royal Research Ship James Cook to the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton.
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
An HPWREN automated digital camera on Lyons Peak captured an image around 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 23, 2006, that shows the extent of the Horse Fire. The camera remotely collected many images that day, which the researchers were able to use to better understand the wildfire. Credit: HPWREN From Live Science: HPWREN (the High-Performance Wireless Research and Education Network) began in 2000 with the...
io9 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is preparing to roll out hundreds of small, seafaring robotic explorers. If you're out for a swim and a robot tries to make friends with you, don't stand in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Slobber And Spittle (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Caption: A composite image by NASA of water levels in the Pacific Ocean for early November, 2009. The water level is an indication of the temperature of the surface water, with higher levels indicating higher temperatures. The expanded El Nino is the big red blob that starts at the west coast of Mexico and stretches toward the equator. Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory According to a recent NASA...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Long before San Diego was known as a hub of telecommunications innovation or for its proliferation of biotech companies, it was a leading center for the development of deep underwater technologies. During the 1960s and ’70s, scientists from the U.S. Navy laboratories on Point Loma and UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography founded numerous startups with technologies [...]
@wedwardes - wine for spice etc. (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on the value of wine competitions and ratings. It is based on two articles that were published in the Journal of Wine Economics this year. In A Hint of Hype, A Taste of Illusion the WSJ reports on research by Robert Hodgson, a retired professor of oceanography and winemaker at Fieldbrook Winery . Given the high price of wine and the enormous...
Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Everything is pointing to a wonderfully warm winter in Saskatchewan ... finally. After a string of brutal winters, it's nice that we'll get a break this year ... and not only that, if El Nino gives us up to 4 years of echo , the next couple of winters may be mild: El Niño is experiencing a late-fall resurgence . Recent sea-level height data from the NASA/French Space Agency Ocean Surface Topography...
Fast Company Now (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Divers of the future may come across an interesting sea-dweller, if the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have their way. Thousands of autonomous underwater explorers (AUEs), or robotic probes, will be deployed throughout the world's waters in an attempt to gather more information about oceanic phenomena. The National Science Foundation has awarded Scripps nearly $1 million for the AUEs, which will...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
( National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) ) Cut carbon emissions or our only hope to cool the planet will be relying on unproven geo-engineering ideas. This was the warning delivered to US House of Representatives by Professor John Shepherd of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Long-term variations in volcanism help explain the birth, evolution and death of striking geological features called oceanic core complexes on the ocean floor, says geologist Dr Bram Murton of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Oceanic core complexesLong-term variations in volcanism help explain the birth, evolution and death of striking geological features called oceanic core complexes on the ocean floor, says geologist Dr Bram Murton of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.Oceanic core complexes are associated with faults along slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges. They are large elevated massifs with flat or gently...
Switched (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
If you happen to notice a swarm of robots floating past your beachfront home, don't panic; it's not the first wave of the SkyNet invasion. Aided by funding from the National Science Foundation , the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) is planning to deploy fleets of autonomous robots, possibly numbering in the hundreds, to study localized oceanic environments. High on the list of phenomena to...
James' Empty Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Hachimangu , originally uploaded by julesberry2001 . Our meeting last week was mostly about the last millennium, so as well as oceanography we also mused on some old trees, one of which (a ~300 year old ginko) frames most of the right hand side of this photo. I often try to take this photo of the bandstand and several tori down the ~1.5 mile dead straight road between the beach and Hachimangu shrine...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
This digital image shows how autonomous underwater explorers (AUEs) will be used to provide new information about the oceans. Credit: SIO From Live Science: Swarms of soup-can-sized robots will soon plunge into the ocean seeking data on poorly understood phenomena from currents to biology. With $2.5 million in new funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the Scripps Institution...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Nope, it's not a robotic fish . At least, not like what we've covered before. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to create a whole new kind of robot, or rather robots. Lots of little robots that will collect lots of location-specific data that will help scientists learn more about marine ecosystems....
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