Funding hopes for a sea change

Funding hopes for a sea change

Oceanography in the US is poised on the verge of a funding decision that could help establish a revolution. Instead of sporadic, expeditionary glimpses of the ocean from ships and submarines, researchers are hoping this fall for funds to begin establishing a permanent presence in the ocean. They have been planning an infrastructure of long-term ocean-observing outposts that can transmit round-t...

Science and change: hopes and dilemmas.

A Sea of Change

When most people think about the influence of burning fossil fuels on the global ecosystem, they usually think of the ‘‘greenhouse effect’’ caused by a skyrocketing increase in the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, which traps a higher percentage of radiant energy and raises global temperatures. Despite politically charged opposition to an overwhelming scientific consensus, public concern regard...

Seeking a sea change

this is to slow down. They slow way down.” Biologists are concerned about the orange roughy, grenadier, deepsea rockfish, oreo and Patagonian toothfish among others. The orange roughy is so slow growing that it is not sexually mature until 34 years old. It can live to 150. “When you buy orange roughy you are likely eating a fish that is at least 50 years old,” says Krista Baker of Memorial Univ...

Sea change

part of a small elite who looked at the factories sprouting up across England’s green hills and saw not dark satanic mills, but rather industry and the prospect of improvement. In the French revolution they did not find a threat to Britain’s security, but confirmation that even the most hierarchical of societies could be transformed. “The present, beyond all former times,” as one of Smithson’s ...