A new coral salinity record shows that the location of the most significant hydroclimatic feature in the Southern Hemisphere, the South Pacific Convergence Zone, influences a major Pacific Ocean ...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2017/02/09/indonesian-corals-shed-light-on-climate-system/
We’ve just completed our first full station and are remarkably pleased with the results. We collected 8 seawater samples to measure helium isotopes; 20 to measure thorium and protactinium isoto...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/12/30/all-i-wanted-for-christmas-was-for-these-pumps-to-work/
With an abundance of time and a dearth of work, we have begun to devise ways of doing science before we can actually do science at sea. Among other things, we set up an imaging system to take pic...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/12/22/doing-science-when-theres-no-science-to-be-done/
The South Pacific Gyre is the most nutrient-poor region in the ocean, and the waters are the clearest in the ocean. The sediments accumulate below the water at rates as low as 0.1 millimeter per ...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/12/21/day-2-what-am-i-doing-here-anyway/
In the weeks before departing for my first scientific cruise, everyone I knew who had ever been to sea gave me some form of the same advice: Nothing ever works the way you expect it to work at se...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/12/18/setting-sail-plan-for-the-unexpected/
The OUTPACE 2015 cruise has set sail on February 20! We left port in Nouméa at 8:30 a.m. last Friday morning. I lost sight of land around 10 a.m. or so, and I won’t see it again until we retur...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/03/outpace-cruise-setting-sail/
Dust blowing onto the oceans can help algae grow and pull CO2 out of the atmosphere. It influences the radiative balance of the planet by reflecting sunlight away. Scientists want to know what ro...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2014/01/24/earths-climate-history-written-in-dust/
Corporate giant Fiji Water makes millions of dollars every year selling bottled water, but only 47 percent of Fiji Islanders have access to clean drinking water. That may change.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2011/06/24/clean-water-for-fiji/