DOE/Joint Genome Institute) The expansion of oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) affects the processes by which carbon is captured and sequestered on the seafloor. In the Oct. 23 issue of the journal Science, researchers from the University of British Columbia and
University of British Columbia) A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia, along with colleagues at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, has mapped the genome of a microbe that is silently helping to shape the
European Space Agency) As preparations for the launch of SMOS and Proba-2 continue on schedule, the engineers and technicians at the Russian launch site say goodbye as both satellites are encapsulated within the half-shells of the Rockot fairing.
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)) The world's oldest known submerged town has been revealed through the discovery of late Neolithic pottery. The finds were made during an archaeological survey of Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece.
Texas A&M University) Oceanographer Steve DiMarco of Texas A&M University, a leading authority on the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," and his team of researchers have been awarded $725,467 for the first year of a five-year, $3.72 million project that
University of Toronto) Renowned University of Toronto physicist Richard Peltier has been chosen by the Franklin Institute to receive the 2010 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. Peltier is the first Canadian to receive the $250,000 award and
