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ABSTRACT: Extreme precipitation events pose significant challenges to water resources, agriculture, infrastructure, public health, ecosystems, energy production, fishing, timber production, and other ...

Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and State Key, Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, ...

Two new oceanographic-class research ships, part of NOAA’s plan to modernize its research fleet, have reached a key construction milestone. The Discoverer and its sister ship, the Oceanographer, to be ...

Kīlauea's impact near and far Previous research led by UH Manoa oceanographers showed that as lava flowed into the ocean, it warmed nutrient-rich bottom waters, making them more buoyant.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Polynesian Voyaging Society’s CEO Nainoa Thompson, and renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle, called for an SOS at a Paris ocean summit. Thompson and Earle joined ...

The scientists were working in the wake of a momentous oceanographic event. In 2015, a massive harmful algal bloom (HAB) had subsumed a stretch of Pacific coastline from southern California all the ...

David Sandwell, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and his colleagues used a year’s worth of SWOT data to focus on seamounts, abyssal hills, and underwater continental margins, ...

Just like the Swiss miss, the Oceanographer GMT uses a third hand to track 24-hour time and can be set to an alternate time zone. It also deploys a bi-directional, red and blue bezel (representing ...

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou is, certainly, standard Anderson fare, the story of a Jacques Cousteau-type oceanographer trying to get a look at the jaguar shark that devoured his friend and ...

Dr. Amy Bower, who recently received the Henry Stommel Research Medal — the highest award the American Meteorological Society bestows upon an oceanographer — is a UGOS project director and a member of ...

The JCU coastal oceanographer Dr Eric Wolanski said the trees – scientifically known as melaleuca quinquenervia – could deoxidise the water if they fall and rot in the lagoon. “You’ve got ...