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How do polynyas help feed emperor penguins?

emperor penguins

When female emperor penguins—and later, males—return to the ocean to feed, they need a spot that gives them easy access to both the water and the ice. And, they also need places that are teeming with fish and other types of prey. Learn how polynyas provide a place where penguins can feast and build their energy reserves after breeding.

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Is glacier ice actually rock?

glacier

In places where it gets cold and snowy in winter, many meters of snow can fall. In some the following winter, adding a new layer to what was already there. Over hundreds to thousands of years, this process creates big sheets of ice called glaciers.

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What makes the ocean salty?

beach

The water flowing into the ocean comes from freshwater streams and rivers. These bodies of water do contain salt. It dissolves from rocks on land. That’s because rain is slightly acidic.

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Are corals plants, animals, or rocks?

Coral and Giant clam, Tridacna

The base of a coral reef is coral, but what is coral? If you look at a piece of coral that washed up on shore, it’s solid and tough with rough edges and little pits.

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Better observations of the rapidly-warming Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean Features

Beal, L. M., and Coauthors, 2020. A roadmap to IndOOS-2: Better observations of the rapidly-warming Indian Ocean. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0209.1. Indian Ocean main oceanographic features and…

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Pioneer Cruise

r/v armstrong

After 14 days of quarantine, a nine-person science team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution boarded the R/V Neil Armstrong.

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Gulf Stream transport

CMV Oleander

The Gulf Stream, one of, if not the world’s strongest ocean current, plays a major role in earth’s climate by transporting heat from the tropics to the mid latitudes. Changes…

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