Physical Science:
Hugh Bradner died this week at the age of 92. Bradner was a prominent physicist and professor emeritus at the Scripps. He worked on the Manhattan Project and later designed instrumentation for the fusion bomb. He was one of the...
Posted on May 14, 2008 9:18 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Seawater chemistry is changing with the addition of fossil fuel CO2 to the atmosphere. This influx of CO2 is causing the world's oceans to become more acidic, which is bad news for corals and other marine organisms that use calcium carbonate to build their skeletons and protective shells.
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Posted on May 3, 2008 10:36 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you look at the Mediterranean Sea on a globe, you may get the impression that its just one contiguous water mass, but really its not. There are thirteen seas in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Posted on April 24, 2008 12:32 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Gaelin Rosewaks was one of a dozen people who changed my ideas about what it means to live an inspired life when I dropped out of the film business after ten years in Hollywood, and enrolled in the summer session...
Posted on April 21, 2008 8:58 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Leighton Rolley, a systems technician on the "world's most advanced research ship" the RRS James Cook, used a remotely operated vehicle capable to 5000 m depth to plant the Welsh dragon flag in the waters of the Galapagos, in the...
Posted on April 20, 2008 6:55 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I don't study hydrothermal vents. I rather enjoy the deep muddy ooze, and its organisms, that comprise much of the earth's surface. Not that I don't like vents, I just like the soft bottoms better. I have been often...
Posted on March 30, 2008 12:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Spring is in the air. Spring Break is upon us, and the mind begins to wander... to the poles? Well, yes, because researchers are now predicting a seasonally ice-free Arctic by the year 2030. Break out the kayaks and sunscreen. It's "Wild on, Nuuk."
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Posted on March 28, 2008 3:42 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When was the last time your local news station sent out reporter by helicopter to land on an iceberg floating offshore? One of the intrepid chaps sums it up nicely,... "all my life I wanted to go to the Antarctic, now the Antarctic's come to me."
Posted on March 28, 2008 3:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Isn't it ironic that the International Polar Year falls on the year with the least Arctic ice cover? The North Pole is now literally on thin ice. Scientists are predicting a seasonally ice free Arctic by 2030. The image...
Posted on March 28, 2008 3:11 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As part of the MNHN's current Abysses exhibitions, based largely on Clare Nouvian's elegant book, you can choose and pilot your own submersible over at the their website. I choose the Trieste which handled a little rough on corners...
Posted on March 25, 2008 8:12 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks