Chemical Oceanography
Chemical Oceanography: The chemistry of the ocean is closely tied to ocean circulation, climate, the plants and animals that live in the ocean, and the exchange of material with the atmosphere, cryosphere, continents, and mantle. The ocean is unique in that it contains - in greater or lesser quantities - nearly every element in the periodic table. Much of chemical oceanography describes the cycling of these elements both within the ocean and with the other spheres of the Earth system. These cycles are usually characterised as quantitative fluxes between constituent reservoirs defined within the ocean system and as residence times within the ocean. Of particular global and climatic significance are the cycles of the biologically active elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus as well as those of some important trace elements such as iron.
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JUL 14, 2022
Earth & The Environment
JUL 14, 2022
Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and China reveal in a recent study published in Science Advances how
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 26, 2021
Earth & The Environment
DEC 26, 2021
Some discoveries include hundreds of silver and bronze Roman coins, and a gold ring from 1700-600 A.D
Written By:
Timothy James
DEC 21, 2021
Microbiology
DEC 21, 2021
There have been a few mass extinction events on our planet. One of them was apparently prolonged by microbes that were s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 08, 2021
Earth & The Environment
AUG 08, 2021
According to a new study published in Nature Communications last January, life in the waters of the Arctic Oce
...
Written By:
Matthew Lundy
JUL 28, 2021
Earth & The Environment
JUL 28, 2021
Everything in our world, including us, is made up of chemicals. But some of those chemicals are very harmful to the natu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 16, 2021
Earth & The Environment
JUL 16, 2021
With climate change affecting our air temperatures, we also see an impact on our world's oceans.
Written By:
Samantha Lott
MAR 31, 2021
Microbiology
MAR 31, 2021
Scientists took an exploratory journey to a place in the central Pacific Ocean in Kirbati called the Phoenix Islands Pro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 05, 2021
Plants & Animals
MAR 05, 2021
The world's coral reefs face numerous threats, including climate change, pollution, and habitat loss. Since 2014, an
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
DEC 07, 2020
Microbiology
DEC 07, 2020
There are some very extreme environments on our planet, and it seems that microbes have been able to colonize many of th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 10, 2020
Plants & Animals
SEP 10, 2020
Snails, marine and terrestrial, are likely primarily imagined to be attached to a substrate. However, under the waves, t
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
AUG 05, 2020
Microbiology
AUG 05, 2020
Some salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) have a strange relationship with a type of alga (Oophila amblystomatis): they are
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 03, 2020
Plants & Animals
AUG 03, 2020
Scientists used cutting edge technologies to assess how pervasive toxic or household chemicals and pathogens like plasti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 07, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
JUL 07, 2020
Bacteria live in symbiosis with many animals in the world. These tiny single-celled creatures often play crucial roles i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 16, 2020
Earth & The Environment
JUN 16, 2020
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...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUN 08, 2020
Earth & The Environment
JUN 08, 2020
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...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUN 08, 2020
Earth & The Environment
JUN 08, 2020
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...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
APR 20, 2020
Earth & The Environment
APR 20, 2020
Today marks the tenth year since the Deepwater Horizon disaster—the most massive accidental offshore oil spill eve
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
MAR 19, 2020
Earth & The Environment
MAR 19, 2020
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...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
DEC 19, 2019
Earth & The Environment
DEC 19, 2019
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...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
NOV 23, 2019
Earth & The Environment
NOV 23, 2019
Researchers from the University of Waterloo are intent on getting toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes under control. T
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 22, 2019
Earth & The Environment
OCT 22, 2019
Scientists from Yale University have solved a mystery that has plagued scientists for decades. It’s well establish
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
OCT 16, 2019
Earth & The Environment
OCT 16, 2019
This summer, the Greenland Ice Sheet experienced a significant melting event not seen since 2002, mainly due to the heat
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
OCT 16, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
OCT 16, 2019
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...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
SEP 11, 2019
Earth & The Environment
SEP 11, 2019
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...
Written By:
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