Chasing Currents

Ever since GO Sars figured out that cod eggs float (back in 1864), marine biologists and oceanographers have been trying to understand how ocean currents work. Now there's an even more pressing reason to understand ocean circulation -- climate change. This blog is my attempt to put all the pieces together.

25 August, 2010

Geoengineering won't touch sea level rise

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This just in on the geoengineering front in the battle to grapple with climate change: At least as far as controlling sea level rise, it won...

21 August, 2010

What is this AMOC thing?

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One of the things that really got me interested in the question of how ocean currents will affect future climate is a report by the US Glob...

15 August, 2010

Mapping the Barents Sea --the MAREANO project

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With the shrinking of the polar ice caps, places like the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea are attracting more attention from shippers, oil ...

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Nancy Bazilchuk: Trondheim, Norway; You all know the mind-boggling facts about the ocean: it covers 71 percent of the planet, is full of as-yet undiscovered forms of life, and it's also being busily fished out. I grew up near the ocean, and it's always held a fascination for me. But while writing a piece for Scientific American I realized that understanding how ocean currents will respond to warming ocean temperatures will affect everything from fish populations to the climate in my adopted country of Norway. Chasing Currents is my effort to understand the research that's out there.

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