Friday, 21 August 2015

Light Reading

It's that time of week again - Friday! And we've come prepared with some interesting stories from the past week. We'll kick off with the marine related stories and finish with whatever tickles our fancy! Enjoy. 

1,800 years of global ocean cooling halted by global warming
Comprehensive analysis of ocean surface temperature data shows a cooling trend preceding the Industrial Revolution
Science Daily (18 August 2015)

Eli Kintisch. Science (20 August 2015) Note: AIMS Staff should be able to access the full text of this article through our subscription to Science.

Examining the fate of Fukushima contaminants
Fraction of buried, ocean sediment uncovered by typhoons, carried offshore by currents
Science Daily (18 August 2015)

Glaciers seed ocean with silicon – and fuel plankton growth
Colin Barras. New Scientist (21 August 2015)

Is Climate Change Increasing Sea Star Wasting Disease?
Emily Tripp. Marine Science Today (August 18 2015)

New AUV plankton sampling system deployed
Science Daily (August 17 2015)

North Pacific ‘blob’ stirs up fisheries management
Unusually warm ocean strengthens calls to consider ecosystem variables in setting catch limits.
Virginia Gewin. Nature News (20 August 2015)

The 'End of the high seas', or we watch the seas die
Science Daily (August 17 2015) 

Colin Barras. New Scientist (20 August 2015)

Other interesting topics:

The cull follows a similar discovery earlier this year.
Ewen Callaway. Nature News (18 August 2015)

How do you study an underwater volcano? Build an underwater laboratory
Suzanne Jacobs. Grist (18 August 2015)

Whistled Turkish tickles both sides of the brain
Emily Underwood. Science (17 August 2015)

Elizabeth Pennisi. Science (17 August 2015) 

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