The National Center for Science Education is offering a free preview (PDF) of ESS’ Peter D. Ward‘s The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps
Read more »New study foces on predicting El Niños
Weather forecasters have long known that El Niño events can throw seasonal climate patterns off kilter, particularly during winter months. Now new research from JISAO and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationsuggests that a different way to detect El Niño could help forecasters predict the unusual weather it causes. Andrew Chiodi is a co-author; click here to read more.
Read more »Quest underway to quantity, movements, origins and forms of Deep Carbon - Phys.org
From Earth’s surface to hundreds of kilometers deeper than oilmen drill, the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) is investigating the surprising quantity of carbon in the deep, dark Earth beyond photosynthesis. Co-authored by OCEAN’s John Baross, the book Carbon in Earth outlines questions that will guide DCO’s program through 2019 and beyond. Click here to read more about this project.
Read more »Save the whales? There's an app for that! - Deep Sea News
Check out OCEAN’s Michelle Weirathmueller’s guest blog post at Deep Sea News, wherein she discusses the possibility of saving right whales by installation of passive acoustic monitoring. Also check out her personal science blog, which is super cool and we are so glad we found it!
Read more »What is behind the daily mass migration of crows to Bothell?
If you look up in the sky in north Seattle, you will likely see them every evening around sunset: Hundreds, perhaps thousands of crows flying overhead, headed in the same direction, just like clockwork. Those crows join up with more crows along their nightly route and eventually a murder of many thousands of crows converges on the rooftops and trees around the University of Washington, Bothell campus.
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