Pacific waves: Reverberations from Oceania

Solar and tidal reverberations of deglaciation records from the tropical western Pacific: a clean spectral approach

The search for the role of solar and tidal cycles in terrestrial climate records is an interesting curiosity. Powerful clean spectroscopy of high resolution carbon and oxygen isotope records from the tropical western Pacific Sulu Sea, over the past 9000–22000 years reveals statistically significant (at >90% confidence interval) spectral lines corresponding to periods of 2980, 690, 322, 250, 174...

China in Oceania: New Forces in Pacific Politics

Cortical Sensorimotor Reverberations

In this issue of Neuron, Manita et al. (2015) report that reciprocal excitatory interactions between higher-order frontal motor cortex and primary sensorimotor cortex might play a key role in hindlimb sensory perception in mice.

No Room in the Ark? Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Pacific Islands of Oceania

The islands of Pacific Oceania face unprecedented anthropogenic climate change within this century. Rising sea levels, increasing ocean acidification, warming land and sea temperatures, increasing droughts, and changes in the frequency and intensity of storms are likely to reorder or destroy ecosystems such as coral reefs, mangrove and montane forests, and coastal wetlands. For the developed na...

The CDC pacific emergency health initiative: a pilot study of emergency preparedness in Oceania.

OBJECTIVE Environmental emergencies and disasters are becoming more frequent in developing nations. Between 1992 and 1996, disasters affected an annual average of 4.5 million Oceania residents. Unfortunately, public health planners in the region and responders throughout the world have little evidence on which to base measures of emergency preparedness. Indicators of preparedness must be identi...