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Education and Planning Cut Death Toll in Samoa Tsunami

The team, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, collected data Oct. 4 through Oct. 11 to document the impacts of the 8.1 earthquake and the…

Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues on Climate Change

Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Miriam Katz has spent the past two decades studying these ancient,…

K-State engineers strive to make algae oil production more feasible

The idea by K-State's Wenqiao “Wayne” Yuan and Zhijian “Z.J.” Pei is to grow algae in the ocean on very large, supporting platforms. The National Science…

Tags reveal white sharks have neighborhoods in the north Pacific

“White sharks are a large, highly mobile species,” said Salvador Jorgensen, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station. “They can go just…

Scientists ‘Unlock’ Mystery of Creating Cultured Pearls from the Queen Conch

With less than two years of research and experimentation, Drs. Héctor Acosta-Salmón and Megan Davis, co-inventors, have produced more than 200 cultured pearls…

North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting as Ocean Temperatures Warm

About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four…

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