News & Events
News
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Stanford undergraduates taught by professors of oceans William Gilly and Christopher Francis study science and literature on the same fishing vessel that novelist John Steinbeck chartered to the Sea of Cortez in 1940.
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A microscopic kingdom in peril? Rising seas could threaten South Carolina's 'subterranean estuaries'
Co-authored by scientists in the Oceans Department, new research published in Environmental Microbiology examines how the microscopic organisms that exist in the groundwater below beaches play a critical role in capturing and filtering everything from agricultural run-off to pollution from leaky septic tanks.
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"The turtles are moving northward six times faster than the average for marine animals. So, our loggerhead, our sentinel loggerheads, are teaching us about this new ocean, this new warming ocean there," said professor of oceans Larry Crowder.
Upcoming Events
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Oceans Department Seminar - The Role of Physiology in Predicting Marine Species’ Resilience to Climate Change
Class/Seminar-Green Earth Sciences Building -
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