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BusinessWeek December 13, 2007 Stephen Baker	A Sea Change A new $170 million project called Neptune is using hundreds of miles of fiber-optic cables to collect data from deep in the Pacific Ocean like never before.
Scientific American October 2008 Barbara Juncosa	Climate Change May be Sparking New and Bigger "Dead Zones" Climate change seems to be starving some waters of oxygen.
Wired December 2004 Sylvia A. Earle	The Wild Blue Under The more we understand about life in extreme environments, the greater chance we'll know where to look in space.
Outside February 2005	The Monterey Academy Research System Submarines and unmanned submersibles--for the past 20 years the vanguard of oceanography--are limited by battery life and storms that can make deployment or recall impossible. All that's about to change.
Geotimes June 2007 Megan Sever	Deep-Sea Observatory Launched At 891 meters below the Pacific, the MARS observatory will be the first deep-sea, unmanned observatory in the continental United States that is connected to the mainland by cables that will provide data to scientists in real time.
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb	Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments.
Popular Mechanics December 15, 2009 Amber Angelle	New Underwater Explorers Go Where Scientists Can't Engineers have created new ways to do ocean research and solve environmental and biologic problems.
Fast Company September 2001 Fara Warner	Where Is the Next Frontier of Innovation? Fast-paced experimentation. Distributed intelligence. Total teamwork. The scientific formula behind the new economy is still disrupting the status quo -- in this case, 20,000 leagues under the sea...
Wired September 22, 2008 Damon Tabor	Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative.
Geotimes July 2004 Naomi Lubick	Ocean Management 101 In a recent report, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy calls for a uniform national policy on ocean research -- including management of coastal areas such as the West Coast.
Popular Mechanics August 12, 2008 Laurie J. Schmidt	Sensor-Laden Super Seals Dive Deep for New Global Warming Data A behemoth marine mammal whose diving skills would put an Olympic athlete to shame has become a surprise player in climate-change studies
Wired January 18, 2008 Geoffrey Gagnon	Foreigners Keep Out! High Tech Mapping Starts to Redefine International Borders Countries vie to claim control of different regions in the North Pole.
Geotimes June 2006 Megan Sever	Plate Shifts in the Pacific Northwest The far northern section of the Sumatra-style subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest could be transforming into more of a San Andreas-style seismic zone, according to new research. This geologic reorganization could have implications for the region's earthquake risk.
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006 Adam Aston	Wild Fixes For A Warming Planet Scientists are envisioning giant but risky engineering projects to undo climate change.
Wired December 2004 Erika Check	Mysteries of the Deep The top 15 places to explore beneath the sea.
Geotimes March 2005 Sara Pratt	Dead Zones Off New Jersey Researchers say coastal hypoxia is caused by ocean processes, not river runoff, that are responsible for the oxygen depletion and the resulting hazards that the events pose to bottom-dwelling organisms.
Geotimes March 2005 Susan E. Hough	Earthquakes: Predicting the Unpredictable? Seismologists are quite good at identifying where large earthquakes are likely to occur on time scales of several decades to centuries, but still unable to identify regions where earthquakes will happen tomorrow, next week, or even within the next few years.
Geotimes February 2004	Call for ocean policy overhaul America needs a new ocean policy. That's the message coming out of several sessions at last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences which focused on the health of America's oceans.
National Defense November 2005 Grace Jean	Satellite Radio Could Globalize Tsunami Warning Raytheon has developed a communications network that could transmit emergency warnings to satellite-radio receivers around the globe, according to a company representative.
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Arianne Cohen	This Is My Job: Oceanographer As director of one of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's research centers in San Diego, Eric Terrill's job is, in short, to figure out how the ocean works.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail	Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sandra Upson	Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water.
Scientific American March 2005 Madhusree Mukerjee	The Scarred Earth Tsunami-spawning quake leaves geophysical changes.
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Scientific American September 2008 Lucas Laursen	Seismic "Noise"--Oil Prospecting Data Could Decipher Ocean Mixing A ring of warm, salty water in the Atlantic was recently imaged with seismic survey data taken 15 years ago
Geotimes July 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Ancient Ocean Burps A sediment core extracted from the ocean floor off the coast of Baja, Calif., indicates two "burps" of carbon dioxide were once released from a deep, stagnant part of the ocean.
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 Philip E. Ross	Waiting and Waiting For the Next Killer Wave A tsunami alarm for the Indian Ocean may be worth the cost, but can it retain public support over the long haul?
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick	Is Ocean Circulation Slowing Down? New measurements of temperature and salinity in the North Atlantic indicate that changes are occurring in this segment of the ocean's circulation that could eventually affect Earth's climate.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Big Blue Taps the Water IBM's plan to network the Hudson could lead to a river of opportunities. Investors, take note.
Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt	Acidic Waters Threaten Sea Life High acidity in the world's oceans may be threatening coral populations, such as those in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Popular Mechanics April 3, 2009 Trevor Williams	Ocean Drilling: How the Past Can Provide Clues to our Planet's Future Climate By pulling cores of ancient ooze from beneath the ocean floor, scientists hope to learn how the Earth responded to climate change 50 million years ago and how it may react to future warming.
Chemistry World December 18, 2007 Victoria Gill	Seeds of Doubt A company called Planktos plans to dump 50-100 tons of iron sulfate into a patch of ocean 100km wide in a bid to seed the growth of plankton.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Marine Critters Record Global Warming Layers of fossilized marine creatures have acted as an independent record of ocean temperature for millennia. Now, data from such layers is mirroring the same warming trend that instruments have shown -- suggesting humans are contributing to global warming.
Geotimes February 2007 Nicole Branan	Shifting Winds Shift Warming Trends? New model simulations indicate that a poleward shift in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds could cause the Southern Ocean's carbon dioxide and heat uptake to increase by up to 20%.
Geotimes April 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Ocean Budget Surges Under the fiscal year 2008 budget request, priority ocean projects would receive a budget increase totaling $143 million, countering the otherwise flat budget for earth science.