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"Antarctic Edge: 70° South is a science-in-action feature film, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, following a renowned team of scientists studying climate change in the fastest winter-warming…

Research Interests: My research explores the impact of marine microorganisms on the ocean. Marine microbes (i.e., phytoplankton, bacteria, viruses) account for >95% of all oceanic biomass and their dynamic activities…

Research Interests: My principal research interests lie in the cycling of metals, nutrients, carbon and sulfur as they relate to the Earth’s biogeochemical evolution. In my research I study chemical…

“We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event.” That quote from a member of the research team that published “Marine Defaunation: Animal loss in the global…

Life's Engines How Microbes Made Earth Habitable | Princeton University Press  For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms…

Handbook of Sea-Level Research Professor Ian Shennan (Editor), Professor Antony J. Long (Editor), Dr Benjamin P. Horton (Editor) ISBN: 978-1-118-45258-5 600 pages March 2015, Wiley-Blackwell Measuring sea-level change – be…

A team of researchers reported Wednesday that the ocean did not rise quite as much as previously believed in the 20th century. They proposed a seemingly tiny adjustment that could…

On Dec 16 2014, Mansha successfully defended her thesis entitled Biochemical and physiological characterization of caspase activity in Haloarchaea

Fleets of robot submarines will change oceanography. SAILING the seven seas is old hat. The latest trick is to glide them. Sea gliders are small unmanned vessels which are now…

Peter A. Rona, an oceanographer who dived into the depths of the world’s seas and surprised his peers by discovering vast mounds spewing hot smoke at the bottom of the…