Posts Tagged ‘Ocean Currents’
A Flower, a Ship, and a Way to Conduct Science
The Oleander is a container ship that provides weekly service between Bermuda and New Jersey. For decades, it also has been a platform for BIOS scientists and others to observe the ocean
Read MoreOut to Catch a Spring “Bloom”
BIOS gliders team up to monitor phytoplankton growing offshore Bermuda
Read MoreOcean Circulation Implicated in Past Abrupt Climate Changes
A paper co-authored by BIOS President and CEO William Curry found that there was a period during the last ice age when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere went on a rollercoaster ride, plummeting and then rising again every 1,500 years or so. Those abrupt climate changes wreaked havoc on ecosystems, but their cause has been something of a mystery.
Read MoreNew Study Links Global Ocean Processes with Local Coral Reef Chemistry
Five years of data collected on reefs and offshore in Bermuda shows that coral reef chemistry – and perhaps the future success of corals – is tied not only to the human carbon emissions causing systematic ocean acidification, but also to seasonal and decadal cycles in the open waters of the Atlantic, and the balance of biochemical processes in the coral reef community
Read MoreNew BIOS Gliders Launched Offshore Bermuda on First Mission
“Jack” and “Minnie” will spend nine months gathering data about seasonal changes
Read MorePacking Science into a Weekly Shipping Routine
The Oleander brings goods to Bermuda, and data to BIOS scientists
Read MoreUsing Foraminifera to Understand the Influence of Antarctic Intermediate Water
In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, a team of researchers—including BIOS’s Bill Curry—used foraminifera from sediment cores to test the hypothesis that the AAIW’s flow into the North Atlantic followed variations in the strength of the AMOC
Read MoreUnderstanding the Ocean of the Past Using Ocean Sediments
A study published in a recent issue of Nature Geoscience looks at the impacts of historic glacial events, called Heinrich events, on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) by investigating oxygen isotopes in the shells of benthic foraminifera
Read MoreThe Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) Celebrates A Quarter Century of Science
By the end of its first decade, BATS supported 60 different research groups conducting time-series projects near Bermuda, with many scientists using BATS data to make fundamental discoveries about the cycling of trace metals and their relationship with ocean biology, the role of eddies in the cycling of nutrients, and the role of the ocean in the global carbon cycle
Read MoreThe BATS 25th Anniversary Cruise
A very special Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) research cruise marking the program’s 25th year
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