University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science) This summer, UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) adopted the introduction of a new international thermodynamic equation of state for seawater called TEOS-10. Dr. Frank Millero from the Univeristy of Miami

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)) New research involving scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, highlights the potential utility of iron isotopes for addressing important questions in ocean science. The findings are published in the August edition of the journal

Geological Society of America) The fourth issue of Lithosphere is now available online and in print. Articles ask and answer four main questions: "What's going on beneath the Juan de Fuca slab?"; "What's down the SAFOD borehole?"; "What did the

Geological Society of America) Geology studies include some curious associations: air hockey and plate tectonics; calcite and Earth's orbit; Columbia River Flood Basalts and the Congo Fan; and rock hyrax middens and global climate change. Also in Geology: briny eruptions