Analyses of instrumental data demonstrate robust linkages between decadal-scale North Pacific and tropical Indo-Pacific climatic variability. These linkages encompass common regime shifts, including the noteworthy 1976 transition in Pacific climate. However, information on Pacific decadal variability and the tropical high-latitude climate connection is limited prior to the twentieth century. He...

Vancouver, October 2005. Bridging the Gap between Technology and Users: Leveraging Machine Translation in a Visual Data Triage Tool Thomas Hoeft Nick Cramer M. L. Gregory Elizabeth Hetzler Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 902 Battelle Blvd. 902 Battelle Blvd. 902 Battelle Blvd....

BACKGROUND Tertiary institutions are struggling to ensure equitable academic outcomes for indigenous and ethnic minority students in health professional study. This demonstrates disadvantaging of ethnic minority student groups (whereby Indigenous and ethnic minority students consistently achieve academic outcomes at a lower level when compared to non-ethnic minority students) whilst privileging...

In this commentary, we endorse concerns about the health impact of the trans-pacific partnership (TPP), paying particular attention to its mechanisms for investor state dispute settlement. We then describe the different, judgeled approach being advocated by the European Commission team negotiating the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, arguing that, while not perfect, it offers si...

BACKGROUND Abstinence and responsible drinking are not typically associated with youth drinking culture. Amongst Pacific youth in New Zealand there are high numbers, compared to the general New Zealand population, who choose not to consume alcohol. The Pacific youth population is made up of several ethnic groups; their ethno-cultural values are largely Polynesian and heavily influenced by the s...

It has been widely believed that the tropical Pacific trade winds weakened in the last century and would further decrease under a warmer climate in the 21st century. Recent high-quality observations, however, suggest that the tropical Pacific winds have actually strengthened in the past two decades. Precise causes of the recent Pacific climate shift are uncertain. Here we explore how the enhanc...

Marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) originates mainly from primary production using dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) that has young C ages. Paradoxically, the C age of deep DOC ranges from 4000 to 6400 C years, indicating that a portion of DOC survives multiple, deep ocean mixing cycles. Here we show that C ages of DOC from the deep South Pacific are equal to those from the deep north central...

Two new species of the nudibranch genus Dendronotus, Dendronotus arcticussp. n. and Dendronotus robilliardisp. n., are described from the Arctic and North Pacific oceans respectively, based on morphological and molecular data, and the North Pacific Dendronotus albus is revealed to be a species complex. The species Dendronotus robilliardisp. n. is described from the northwestern Pacific (Kamchat...

1. Atmospheric Sciences and Global Climate Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA. 2. W. R & Wiley Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA. 3. Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA. 4. SPI Supplies/Structure Probe, Inc., West Chester,...

Aim In the Indo-Pacific, the mass of islands of the Indonesian archipelago constitute a major biogeographical barrier (the Indo-Pacific Barrier, IPB) separating the Pacific and Indian oceans. Evidence for other, more localized barriers include high rates of endemism at the Marquesas and other isolated peripheral islands in the Pacific. Here we use mitochondrial-sequence comparisons to evaluate ...