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What’s up? The Friday links (89) 

Mediterranean tsunamis, puzzled scientists a year after the South Napa EQ, a new structural geology lab manual, success of brevity and the search of (right) answers. Today is Friday and here are your links! What would a tsunami in the Mediterranean look like? Read this EGU press release about a paper by Samaras et al. in Ocean Science (open access): “A team of European researchers have developed a model […] how tsunami waves could hit and inundate coastal areas

What would a tsunami in the Mediterranean look like? 

     A team of European researchers have developed a model to simulate the impact of tsunamis generated by earthquakes and applied it to the Eastern Mediterranean. The results show how tsunami waves could hit and inundate coastal areas in southern Italy and Greece. The study is published today (27 August) in Ocean Science, an open access journal of the European Geosciences Union

Geosciences Column: Meshing models with the small-scale ocean 

The latest Geosciences Column is brought to you by Nikita Marwaha, who explains how a new generation of marine models is letting scientists open up the oceans. The new technique, described in Ocean Science, reveals what’s happening to ocean chemistry and biology at scales that are often hard to model… Diving into the depths of

Open access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 

A new open access journal in the earth and environmental sciences, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, was recently announced and will begin accepting submissions in April 2013. The journal will publish research on "the Earth?s physical, chemical, and biological systems; interactions between human and natural systems; and steps that can be taken to mitigate and adapt to global change." It will be organized into six knowledge domains: atmospheric science earth and environmental science [...]

Hurricane Sandy Beach Restoration 

The most recent issue of BOEM Ocean Science has information about beach restoration projects in the Hurricane Sandy recovery

Teachers at Sea: Learning physics and ocean science from high sea 

Since last week, GeoLog has had the pleasure to host reports from Teachers at Sea. This educational programme, co-sponsored by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) and the French Polar Insitute (IPEV), gives school teachers the opportunity to take part in oceanographic cruises with scientists. This year, Sandrine Vivier and Ana Sánchez, teachers of Biology and Geology

Climate News Roundup: Week of 6/26 

Prodigal Plankton Returns to the Atlantic, Discovery News, Jun 26 According to researchers with the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, a species of plankton called Neodenticula seminae is an Atlantic resident again, 800,000 years after it became extinct in the ocean. The microscopic plant has been documented with sufficient frequency over the last

NEPTUNE Canada’s Final Cables 

Scientists set sail today to place the final length of power and internet cable for the NEPTUNE Canada project. “NEPTUNE Canada offers a unique and exciting approach to ocean science. Traditionally, ocean scientists have relied on infrequent ship cruises or space-based satellites to carry out their research. But NEPTUNE Canada will change this. We’re building

China’s Deep Sea Research Plans 

An article in NatureNews explores some of China’s current and potential research activities related to basic ocean science and deep sea

Closure of Paleoasian Ocean 251 Million Years Ago 

Oceans come and go. Long ago an ocean existed between Siberia and North China, known by geologists as the Paleoasian Ocean. It probably opened about 900 million years ago - according to Dobretsov et al. (2003) the opening occurred 970-850 million years ago.Here is a very rough global plate tectonic reconstruction from late Devonian - that would be towards 360 million years ago (after Wikipedia).But when did this ocean close? - or in other words, when did the Siberian Plate and the North China [...]

Contest: Oceanic Science Art 

The Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling is sponsoring an Ocean Science Art contest. Students can submit a drawing, painting, or other artwork featuring the JOIDES Resolution scientific expeditions ship and its work. Winning classrooms and schools will be visited by JOIDES Resolution crew and staff. For rules and instructions, visit