Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Department "Oceanography"
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(1997)Diatoms (marine algae) are the largest contributor of biological productivity in the Antarctic. As the siliceous diatoms die their tests begin to accumulate on the sea floor, and preserve a record of how environmental ...
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(1997)Three tows were taken at Galveston Bay, Tx on November 3rd and 4th, 1996 and were evaluated for abundance, with respect to the physical parameters: salinity, temperature, tide stage, and diel stage. These tows yielded a ...
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(2012-05-03)Rising concerns of global warming and climate change warrant further research in the seas surrounding the Antarctic continent. The eastern Ross Sea (ERS) is an ideal location to study changing properties of water masses ...
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After the Macondo (Deepwater Horizon; DWH) oil spill in 2010, an array of six deep ocean current moorings were deployed near the spill site for a period of two years in order to investigate the regional oceanic current ...
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(1989)The scope of this research is to quantify phytoplankton cell numbers at the Antarctic ice edge in horizontal and vertical dimensions during austral winter. Identification is to the species level where possible. Other methods ...
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(2017-04-24)Anthropogenic impacts on the global ocean, including increasing carbon dioxide levels and sea surface temperatures, have significantly changed the chemistry of the seawater itself, by acidifying waters, creating low oxygen ...
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Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse and ozone-depleting gas produced in the ocean and released to the atmosphere. N2O can be produced in areas of low oxygen such as hypoxic areas and oxygen minimum zones. The shelf ...
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(1995)The Gulf of Mexico contains the only known breeding population of Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys kempi); the turtles come ashore to nest along a seventeen mile stretch of coastline near the town of Rancho Nuevo ...
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(2012-07-11)The growth of phytoplankton in hypoxic waters requires nutrients and light. In river plumes of the coastal ocean, river borne surface nutrient concentrations decrease with distance from the river mouth. Light availability ...
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(1997)The transport of water masses and energy along and across the shelf edge has significance for both the abiotic and biotic components of local and distant regions of the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf in the northwestern ...
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(1990)Feature tracking is a technique that produces a sea surface velocity field from sequential images of sea surface brightness temperature derived from satellite measurements of upwelling radiation intensity. To test the ...
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(2013-02-04)Reconstructing ancient ocean circulation patterns contributes to a better understanding of Earth’s past climate conditions, as the two are known to be a strongly coupled system. Paleoceanographic reconstructions of the ...