Latest Ocean Stories
An ocean mapping expedition has shed new light on deepest place on Earth, the 2,500-kilometer long Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean near Guam. Using a multibeam echo sounder, state-of-the-art equipment for mapping the ocean floor, scientists from the University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center found four “bridges” spanning the trench and measured its deepest point with greater precision than ever before. Research professor James...
The European Space Agency's Mars Express has revealed strong evidence that an ocean once covered part of Mars. The spacecraft detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously identified shorelines on Mars. Researchers working with MARSIS radar analyzed two years of data and found that the northern plains are covered in low-density material. "We interpret these as sedimentary deposits, maybe ice-rich," researcher Dr Mouginot said in a statement. "It...
New research from an intrepid team of British oceanographers reveals that the world’s deepest submarine volcanic vents are also the hottest that scientists have yet discovered. Moreover, they appear to be teeming with a variety of previously unknown life forms. According to measurements made in a recent expedition, the mineral-rich water streaming out of volcanic jets at the bottom of the Cayman Trough reaches temperatures exceeding 840 degrees Fahrenheit. Located over 3 miles below the...
The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) has mapped the deepest part of the ocean in greater detail than ever before. The scientists mapped the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, which runs about 1,550 miles and extends down to nearly seven miles. The deepest point measured extends deeper below sea level than the height of Mount Everest, which is the highest point on the Earth. "We mapped the entire trench, from its northern end at Dutton Ridge, all the way to where it...
A quartet of robots set out last week on a 300-plus day journey that will take them 33,000 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean -- the longest voyage ever attempted by an unmanned sailing craft, according to various reports. BBC News reported last Friday that the four robots, which were created by an American company called Liquid Robotics, departed from the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco on November 17. At first they will travel together before pairing off into groups of two,...
OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J., Nov. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Scarinci Hollenbeck has announced the arrival of Anthony R. Caruso, a prominent business attorney with a focus in Sports and Entertainment Law. Mr. Caruso's addition will broaden and enhance the Firm's new location at 802 West Park Ave, Suite 222, Ocean, NJ 07712. Mr. Caruso has extensive experience in representing individual clients -- artists, performers, coaches, and athletes -- as well as entities such as production groups...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online [ Watch the Video ] Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin said they have discovered a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes inside one of Jupiter's moons. The team said that the water could represent a potential habitat for life, and many more lakes might exist throughout the shallow regions of Europa's shell. The lake is covered by floating ice shelves that appear to be collapsing, which...
MONTREAL, Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today that its 2011 Investor Fact Book is available in the Investor section of the company's website, www.cn.ca/investors. The fact book is a comprehensive source of information about CN, its freight franchise and business model. It profiles the company's North American freight network and operations, commodity groups, financial performance and strategic outlook in a concise, readable format. Requests...
MONTREAL, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) and Ray-Mont Logistics announced today an agreement to improve supply chain efficiencies and customer service for specialty grains. The supply chain collaboration agreement is intended to improve the flow of specialty grains transshipped from rail car to terminals for bagging and bulk containerization for export via the ports of Montreal and Vancouver. Under the agreement, Ray-Mont will operate its terminals seven...
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Greg MacGillivray, Academy Award-nominated producer/director and president of MacGillivray Freeman Films (MFF), the world's best-selling independent producer of IMAX® Theatre films, announced the official launch of One World One Ocean (OWOO), a multi-year, multi-platform nonprofit campaign that will harness the power of film, television and new media to generate greater global awareness of the ocean's importance to...
Latest Ocean Reference Libraries
The Arctic Ocean which is located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the shallowest and smallest of the world’s five major oceanic divisions. The International Hydrographic Organization recognizes it as an ocean, although, some oceanographers consider it as the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply, the Arctic Sea, classifying it a Mediterranean sea or an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. Alternatively, the Arctic Ocean can be considered as the northernmost...
Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent. It is located mainly in the eastern and northern hemispheres covering 8.7 percent of the Earth’s whole surface area and making up 30 percent of its land area. With about 4.3 billion people, it hosts 60 percent of the world’s current human population. This continent has a high growth rate in the modern era. For example, during the 20th century, Asia’s population almost quadrupled. This continent is defined as making up the...
Point #1: Warm finger- This region inside the area marked number 1, represents a warm finger of the ocean temperatures. What is occurring is that the warmer air is being pushed faster in this region than the surrounding locations giving us this little finger of warmer temps in that region. Point #2: Warm Eddie- This is a region of warmer temps surrounded on all sides by colder water. Eddies are a closed circulation of water in the ocean that has in this case warmer temps around it. These...
The Peru Current flows from South to North along the western side of South America. This current transports colder air from the south northward towards the equator. This current is responsible for bringing cooler waters off the coast of Peru which is a big reason that they have such high fishing success. However this current can get altered during EL-Nino when the warmer waters of the Pacific are transported west to east and start to replace these colder waters. The Peru current is...
Coastal Upwelling- this is defined as the moving of water from the deeper oceans upwards to the surface of the ocean very commonly found along our cold ocean currents, which are found along the West Coast of the United States and off the Peru coast. Coastal Sinking- this is defined as the warm waters moving in from the east and hitting the coastline and slowly filtering down towards the deeper ocean waters very slowly. This feature is common in our warm ocean currents such as the United...
