‘Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet’ – World Oceans Day 2016

Crossing oceans

Eve Marder explains why all scientists should spend time living and working in a foreign country.

Polar Oceans

We survey progress in studies of ocean circulation, water mass formation, and ocean-ice interaction in both the Southern Ocean and the Arctic region during the period 1983-86. This review places emphasis on U.S. publications, but other significant work is included. It is not meant to be a complete synthesis of polar oceanography of the last four years, but rather to provide an overview of progr...

World Oceans and Coastal Zones: The IPCC Impacts Assessment

Radiocarbon-based circulation age of the world oceans

[1] The distributions of deep ocean DC data are often used to illustrate the rate of deep ocean circulation. The associated conventional C ages show a difference of 1000 years between the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean and a difference of another 1000 years between the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. These differences may be interpreted directly and mistakenly as the timescale of c...

The changing oceans.

THE EVOLVING DISASTER OF THE GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL REMINDS US THAT OUR WELFARE depends on a healthy marine ecosystem and that the oceans are vulnerable to human activities. The oceans sustain a vast wealth of biological diversity, deliver critical ecosystem services, supply valuable natural resources, and are a central component of the climate system. It is therefore critical that the curren...