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TAMPA, Fla., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Seas Water Corporation today announced Claudio Baldovino has been named as President, South America. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130522/PH18343-a) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130522/PH18343LOGO-b) Mr. Claudio Baldovino joins Seven Seas Water as President, South America and a member of the Company's Executive Committee. Mr. Baldovino comes to Seven Seas with 21 years of experience in investment...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Marine biologists reported in the journal Deep-Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography they have discovered a whale skeleton sitting on the ocean floor near Antarctica for the first time. Researchers said they made the discovery nearly a mile below the surface of the ocean in an undersea crater, offering some new insights into life in the sea depths. Until now, whale carcasses have never been studied in the Antarctic region....
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online For over 50 years, conservationists have been championing the protection of humpback whales—and as the population begins to recover from decades of whaling, scientists are starting to ask about the size of the whale population before they were hunted en masse. Using a refined genetic analysis, a group of American scientists has estimated the humpback’s historical population size at more than 100,000 whales, according to their...
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Seas Water Corp., a leading provider of large scale water treatment services, today announced that Mr. Ian Fox has joined the company as Senior Vice President, International Business Development. Mr. Fox comes to Seven Seas Water from AES Corporation where he was Managing Director of Business Development. Prior to AES, Mr. Fox was Vice President of Business Development for CLP Holdings of Hong Kong. Mr. has Fox led the development of...
TOKYO, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Japan's dying whaling industry is being propped up by millions of dollars a year in public money, new research by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) reveals. In a report published today, The Economics of Japanese Whaling, IFAW shows how the Japanese government even diverted tsunami relief funds to support whaling. Annual government subsidies for Japanese whaling average around 782 million yen (US $9.78m), but in 2011 this...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Military technology originally designed to detect enemy submarines may seem like an odd tool in the fight to keep blue whales from becoming extinct, but that's exactly what one team of scientists is attempting to do. The devices in question are sonobuoys -- a relatively small and expendable floating sonar system that is typically dropped or ejected from aircraft or ships as part of anti-submerged vessel defense maneuvers....
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In a victory for conservationists, the Humpback Whale Institute near Salvador, Brazil announced that the amount of humpbacks along the country’s coastline has more than tripled over the past ten years. According to the Institute, the 10,000 whales that were counted off the coast this past breeding season shows a robust growth for the local whale population that numbered only 3,000 when the researchers began keeping track in 2002....
Researchers see natural cycle; but questions arise on climate change For the first time, scientists have identified tropical and subtropical species of marine protozoa living in the Arctic Ocean. Apparently, they traveled thousands of miles on Atlantic currents and ended up above Norway with an unusual—but naturally cyclic—pulse of warm water, not as a direct result of overall warming climate, say the researchers. On the other hand: arctic waters are warming rapidly, and such pulses...
New NSF funded study shows how currents and winds shaped where hydrocarbons from Deepwater Horizon went The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in spring 2010 is the largest oil spill in the history of the United States, with more than 200 million gallons of crude oil released at about 1,500 m. depth off the Mississippi Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. At the time of the accident, the proximity of the intense Loop Current, flowing from the Yucatan Channel to the Florida Straits, raised major concerns...
New research by teams of Australian and US scientists has found there has been a massive reduction in the amount of Antarctic Bottom Water found off the coast of Antarctica. Comparing detailed measurements taken during the Australian Antarctic program's 2012 Southern Ocean marine science voyage to historical data dating back to 1970, scientists estimate there has been as much as a 60 per cent reduction in the volume of Antarctic Bottom Water, the cold dense water that drives global ocean...
Latest Oceans Reference Libraries
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...
Warm Eddy- is an area of water that is made up of warm water and is surrounded by areas of colder water. The north side of the Gulf Stream is a very popular place to find these types of eddies as they form when the water gets cut off from the main Gulf Stream current and just sits and spins in the colder water until it’s replaced by colder water. Cold Eddy- is an area of water that is made up of colder water and is surrounded by areas of warmer water. The south side of the Gulf Stream is...
