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Nitrogen limitation of the summer phytoplankton and heterotrophic prokaryote communities in the Chukchi Sea
(Frontiers Media, 2018-10-15)Major changes to Arctic marine ecosystems have resulted in longer growing seasons with increased phytoplankton production over larger areas. In the Chukchi Sea, the high productivity fuels intense benthic denitrification ... -
The eruption of submarine rhyolite lavas and domes in the deep ocean – Havre 2012, Kermadec Arc
(Frontiers Media, 2018-10-17)Silicic effusive eruptions in deep submarine environments have not yet been directly observed and very few modern submarine silicic lavas and domes have been described. The eruption of Havre caldera volcano in the Kermadec ... -
Movements and oceanographic associations of large pelagic fishes in the North Atlantic Ocean
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2018-09)Highly migratory marine fishes support valuable commercial fisheries worldwide. Yet, many target species have proven difficult to study due to long-distance migrations and regular deep diving. Despite the dominance of ... -
Using maximum entropy production to describe microbial biogeochemistry over time and space in a meromictic pond
(Frontiers Media, 2018-10-01)Determining how microbial communities organize and function at the ecosystem level is essential to understanding and predicting how they will respond to environmental change. Mathematical models can be used to describe ... -
Radium isotopes as tracers of boundary inputs of nutrients and trace elements to the coastal and open ocean
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2018-09)Nutrients and trace metals are vital for supporting life in the ocean, but the boundary processes that control the distributions of these elements are poorly constrained. Radium isotopes are well suited to studying inputs ... -
Biogeochemical and phylogenetic signals of Proterozoic and Phanerozoic microbial metabolisms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2018-09)Life is ubiquitous in the environment and an important mediator of Earth’s carbon cycle, but quantifying the contribution of microbial biomass and its metabolic fluxes is difficult, especially in spatially and temporally-remote ... -
Nantucket whalers and the Franklin-Folger chart of the Gulf Stream
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Leonardo da Vinci’s discovery of the dynamic soaring by birds in wind shear
(2018-07-03)Although Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is well-known to have studied bird flight, few people realize that he was the first to document flight maneuvers now called dynamic soaring. Birds use these maneuvers to extract ... -
Organic carbon aging during across‐shelf transport
(John Wiley & Sons, 2018-08-22)Compound‐specific radiocarbon analysis was performed on different grain‐size fractions of surficial sediments to examine and compare lateral transport times (LTTs) of organic carbon. 14C aging of long‐chain leaf wax fatty ... -
North Atlantic natural variability modulates emergence of widespread Greenland melt in a warming climate
(John Wiley & Sons, 2018-09-10)Record‐breaking melt over Greenland in recent decades is linked not only to climate change but also to natural variability, including persistent atmospheric high‐pressure conditions in the negative phase of the North ... -
Global search for autumn‐lead sea surface salinity predictors of winter precipitation in southwestern United States
(John Wiley & Sons, 2018-08-22)Sea surface salinity (SSS) is sensitive to changes in ocean evaporation and precipitation, that is, to changes in the oceanic water cycle. Through the close connection between the oceanic and terrestrial water cycle, SSS ... -
Projected impacts of future climate change, ocean acidification, and management on the US Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) fishery
(Public Libary of Science, 2018-09-21)Ocean acidification has the potential to significantly impact both aquaculture and wild-caught mollusk fisheries around the world. In this work, we build upon a previously published integrated assessment model of the US ... -
Overturning the Mediterranean thermohaline circulation
(John Wiley & Sons, 2018-08-17)For more than five decades, the Mediterranean Sea has been identified as a region of so‐called thermohaline circulation, namely, of basin‐scale overturning driven by surface heat and freshwater exchanges. The commonly ... -
Recirculating sea water benthic chamber for the study of the biogeochemistry of petroleum components at the sediment water interface
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1978-12)The experimental benthic chamber was designed to conduct both laboratory and in situ investigations on the transport and degradation of petroleum type hydrocarbons at the sediment water interface, and to investigate the ... -
Matamek annual report for 1977
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1978-12)This is a report describing activities associated with the Matamek program in 1977. Research was conducted on biological, chemical and physical factors related to salmonid production in Matamek River and Matamek Lake. ... -
Large cyclonic rings from the northeast Sargasso Sea
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1978-12)Expendable bathythermograph observations have revealed large cold core cyclonic current rings to the east of 60°W in a region that mechanical bathythermograph observations (Parker, 1971) indicated to be devoid of rings. ... -
Towards capturing data curation provenance using Frictionless Data Package Pipelines [poster]
(2018-10-10)At domain-specific data repositories, curation that strives for FAIR principles often entails transforming data submissions to improve understanding and reuse. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management ... -
Eddies, islands, and mixing
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1978-12)As part of a field study of the relation between fine scale and large‐scale variations of water properties in the western North Atlantic, the waters in the vicinity of Bermuda were investigated in detail. Previous work in ... -
Observations of the vertical distribution of low frequency kinetic energy in the western North Atlantic
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1978-11)Eddy or low frequency (periods greater than a day) kinetic energy per unit mass (KB) in the western North Atlantic is observed to increase approaching the Gulf Stream system along 55W longitude from the interior of the ... -
Marine molluscs in nearshore habitats of the United Arab Emirates : decadal changes and species of public health significance
(2017-11-08)This paper describes the results of three qualitative surveys of marine molluscs conducted in December 2010 and May 2011 and 2012 in nearshore benthic habitats along the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman coasts of the United ...
