Ocean Chemistry
Phosphorus Redox Chemistry in the Oceans
Ben Van Mooy, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department – Clark 507
Read MoreCarbon Dioxide, Shell Building, and Ocean Acidification
To build shells and skeletons, marine organisms, such as this hypothetical clam, extract calcium ions and carbonate ions from seawater, combining them into solid crystals of calcium carbonate that are laid down to make shells.
Read MorePutting the ‘nuclear coffin’ in perspective
WHOI chemist and marine radioactivity expert shares his thoughts about radioactivity waste leaking from Runit Dome—a bomb crater filled with radioactive soil in the Marshall Islands that is now being penetrated by rising sea levels
Read MoreGeology creates chemical energy: Origin of a massive methane reservoir discovered
Scientists know methane is released from deep-sea vents, but its source has long been a mystery. A team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution may have the answer. Analysis of 160 rock samples from across the world’s oceans provides evidence, they say, of the formation and abundance of abiotic methane – methane formed by chemical reactions that don’t involve organic matter.
Nutrient and Carbon Export to the Coastal Ocean Driven by Surface Water-Groundwater Exchange
Joe Tamborski, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department
Read MoreOcean Respiration: New Concepts, New Significance, and New Applications
T.T. Packard, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain Sponsored by: MC&G Department
Read MoreThis new nanotech could help clean up Earth’s microplastics
“Trying to understand the big picture on plastic and be able to weave a story together is going to take decades,” said Christopher Reddy, an environmental chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who was not involved in the study.
Summer Lecture Series : Why are Cape Cod Estuaries Impaired and What Can Be Done About It?
Matt Charette, WHOI Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MoreMC&G Steinbach Scholar: Neurotoxins in the Environment: Understanding the Production, Cycling and Fate of Domoic Acid Along the California Coast
Claudia Benitez-Nelson, University of South Carolina Sponsored by: MC&G Department
Read MoreMC&G Steinbach Scholar: The Building Blocks of Life: Elemental Stoichiometry Across Spatial and Temporal Scales
Claudia Benitez-Nelson, University of South Carolina Sponsored by: MC&G Department
Read MoreSummer Lecture Series: Life Without Oxygen: Microbial Processes in Oxygen-Depleted Marine Environments
Maria Pachiadaki, WHOI Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MoreSummer Lecture Series: Living with Oxygen: Walking the Fine Line Between Life and Death
Colleen Hansel, WHOI Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MoreSummer Lecture Series: The Dark Side of the Coastal Carbon Cycle: Cave Networks in Karst Subterranean Estuaries
David Brankovits, USGS & WHOI Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MoreEnvironmental Controls of Organic Matter Preservation: Revisiting a Decades-Old Conundrum
Valier Galy, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department
Read MoreOrganic Carbon Hides in Sediments, Keeping Oxygen in Atmosphere
A new study from researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Harvard University may help settle a long-standing…
Read MoreSpecial Geology & Geophysics Seminar: Oceanic Efflux of Ancient Marine Dissolved Organic Carbon in Primary Marine Aerosol
Steven R. Beaupré, Stony Brook University Sponsored by: Geology & Geophysics Department
Read MoreCarbon Isotopes in the Ocean: What are the WOCE/CLIVAR/GO-SHIP Results Telling Us?
Ann McNichol, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department
Read MoreNew Study Finds Distinct Microbes Living Next to Corals
WHOI scientists distinct discover microbes living just a few centimeters from the surface of corals near the southern coast of Cuba. The discovery may yield clues about the ecological functions of microbes, and how they find and infect coral colonies.
Read MoreA Radical Perspective on the Marine Oxygen Cycle: Superoxide as a Major Sink of Marine Dissolved Oxygen
Kevin Sutherland, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department
Read MoreThe CO2 System in the Marsh Carbon Cycle: Biogeochemistry, Fluxes and An Ignored Biogeochemical Link
Zhaohui ‘Aleck’ Wang, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department
Read MoreThere will be no MC&G seminar today
Tracking Radium in the Arctic
Jessica Dabrowski is an ocean chemist and a second-year graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied…
Read MoreChasing Ocean ‘Snowflakes’
Scientists envision putting a flotilla of devices in the ocean to act as “eyes” that can track the “marine snow” that drifts down into the ocean.
Read MoreOcean Acidification
The release of sulfur and nitrogen into the atmosphere by power plants and agricultural activities is making seawater more acidic.
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