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OCEAN SCIENCES ARTICLES

• What Is Happening to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet? [Earth in Space, Septmber, 1998].
• Program Aims to Reduce Impact of Tsunamis on Pacific States [Earth in Space, October, 1998].
• Glaciers Get a Surge of Attention in the Karakoram Himalaya. [Earth in Space, March, 1998].
• Climate Control Requires a Dam at the Straight of Gibraltar [Eos, July 8, 1997]
• Viewing the Morphology of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge From a New Perspective [Eos, July 1, 1997]
• Mexican Earthquake Generates Tsunami, New Data, and Unusual Photos - Faced with the onrushing water of a tsunami wave, Jose "Pepe" Martinez of La Manzanilla, Mexico, stood his ground and captured the event on film. Personal accounts, photos, and data recorded by newly installed offshore sensors are testimony to how vulnerable flat lands near river inlets are to tsunami attacks and show that even moderate tsunamis can produce large currents inside harbors. [Earth in Space, March, 1997].
• Experiment in Eastern Mediterranean Probes Origin of Deep Water - Scientists pinpoint where water masses come from and where they are headed. [Earth in Space, November 1996]
• Underwater Observatory Captures Coastal Upwelling Off New Jersey - Cold water from the depths of the ocean has long been known to come to the surface in the Pacific, along Peru's coast, for example. Now scientists are learning new lessons about upwelling in the Atlantic, off the coast of New Jersey.[Earth In Space, October 1996]
• Filtered Geosat Altimetry as a Tool for Global Bathymetric Chart Development - Now that the Geosat altimetry and precise orbit information collected during the 1985-1986 Geodetic mission is declassified, the Naval Oceanographic Office is releasing its chart of Geosat altimetry of the world's oceans. [Eos. July 9, 1996]
• Drilling Probes Mediterranean Climate and Oceanography - The secrets of past climate are locked within sapropels, dark sludge composed of plant remains found at the bottom of the sea. Scientists were surprised to discover some of this sludge in the western Mediterranean. They are studying it to piece together a 5-million-year history of climate and environmental change in the Mediterranean. [Earth in Space. May 1996]
• Reflecting on the First Three Years of TOPEX/POSEIDON [Eos. March 19, 1996]
• Satellites Work in Tandem to Improve Accuracy of Data - ESA ERS-1 and TOPEX/POSEIDON altimetry provides simultaneous readings of ocean circulation [Eos. September 26, 1995]
• New Insights in Crustal Accretion Expected from Indian Ocean Spreading Centers - RIDGE/InterRIDGE program targets slow-spreading SW Indian Ridge [Eos. March 14, 1995]
• Water Takes a Peculiar Turn in the Gulf Stream [Eos. March 14, 1995]
• Strides Made in Understanding Antarctic Stratigraphy and Cenozoic Glacial History - Results of the Antarctic Offshore Acoustic Stratigraphy project (ANTOSTRAT) [Eos. March 7, 1995]
• Indian Ocean May Have El Niño of Its Own [Eos. December 13, 1994]
• Researchers Seek Origin of Deep Subsurface Bacteria - May hold the keys to the origin of life, as well as our future [Earth in Space. November 1994]
• Pacific Toy Spill Fuels Ocean Current Pathways Research - When several containers of children's bathtub toys spilled over a ship's side and were released into the Pacific Ocean, who would've thought a concerted research project to study the ocean's currents would be the result? [Earth in Space. October 1994]
• Antarctic Mass Balance and Sea Level Change [Eos. December 14, 1993]

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