{"id":29,"date":"2018-02-23T11:14:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personal-site.dev\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2021-02-04T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T19:16:47","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>Featured News<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/Ancient-storms-could-help-predict-shifts-in-tropical-cyclone-hotspots.jpg\" alt=\"Ancient-storms-could-help-predict-shifts-in-tropical-cyclone-hotspots\" height=\"480\" width=\"720\" title=\"Ancient-storms-could-help-predict-shifts-in-tropical-cyclone-hotspots\" \/>\n\t<p>November 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p>To get a better sense of how climate change might alter the patterns of major ocean storms, shifting the parameters of tropical cyclone hotspots, scientists reconstructed 3,000-years of storm history in the Marshall Islands.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/story1-e1605634155345.jpg\" alt=\"story1\" height=\"480\" width=\"720\" title=\"story1\" \/>\n\t<p>September 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p>A team of climate scientists led by Alan Condron report in <b>Science Advances<\/b> that future Antarctic ice-sheet melt will have significant impacts on global climate. Accelerated ice loss from West Antarctic is found to reduce projected anthropogenic warming by 2-3 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/09\/IMG_4877.jpg\" alt=\"img_4877\" height=\"1000\" width=\"1500\" title=\"img_4877\" \/>\n\t<p>August 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p>New research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) reveals the distinct impact that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/education\/resource-collections\/ocean-coasts\/ocean-acidification\">ocean acidification<\/a>\u00a0is having on coral growth on some of the world&#8217;s iconic reefs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/560px-Mississippi_delta_from_space-e1605631778222.jpg\" alt=\"560px-Mississippi_delta_from_space\" height=\"473\" width=\"559\" title=\"560px-Mississippi_delta_from_space\" \/>\n\t<p>May 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Our findings imply that projected increases in temperature and warm\u2010season precipitation could enhance both drought and flood hazards in this economically vital region.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/58b685c58efff-e1605631730581.jpg\" alt=\"58b685c58efff\" height=\"480\" width=\"543\" title=\"58b685c58efff\" \/>\n\t<p>April 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Analysis shows that the fate of internal waves on this shelf is mediated by local water column density structure and background currents set by the previous shoaling internal waves, highlighting the importance of wave\u2010wave interactions in nearshore internal wave dynamics.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/story2-e1605634143979.png\" alt=\"story2\" height=\"480\" width=\"967\" title=\"story2\" \/>\n\t<p>February 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Summer Praetorius (USGS) and Alan Condron, along with colleagues at OSU, show for the first time how massive flood events in the eastern North Pacific Ocean-known as the Missoula Floods-may have in part triggered abrupt climate change during the last deglaciation (~19,000-11,700 years ago). The findings, published in <b>Science Advances<\/b>, are contrary to the long held belief that cooling was primarily driven by changes in North Atlantic circulation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/story3-e1605634120424.png\" alt=\"story3\" height=\"480\" width=\"1295\" title=\"story3\" \/>\n\t<p>January 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In a study published in <i>Geology<\/i>, Alan Condron and colleagues from UMass Amherst propose a new mechanism for the influx of freshwater into the ocean that was long believed to have altered currents like the Gulf Stream, which brings heat from the equator to North America and Europe.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-17-at-10.28.44-AM-e1605631686141.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2020-11-17 at 10.28.44 AM\" height=\"480\" width=\"781\" title=\"Screen Shot 2020-11-17 at 10.28.44 AM\" \/>\n\t<p>January 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p>We synthesized over 1000 sedimentary records of\u00a0230Th and assessed its utility as a mass flux proxy in marine records. While there may be some caution on hydrothermal ridges and along high flux boundaries,\u00a0230Th normalization is a robust tool for determining sediment mass accumulation rates in the majority of pelagic marine settings (&gt;1,000 m water depth).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/Golfstrom-e1605631792976.jpg\" alt=\"Golfstrom\" height=\"319\" width=\"363\" title=\"Golfstrom\" \/>\n\t<p>January 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In this paper a regional ocean circulation model with &#8216;eddy-permitting&#8217; resolution (1\/4<sup>\u2218<\/sup>) that incorporates\u00a0<sup>230<\/sup>Th and\u00a0<sup>231<\/sup>Pa is used in an effort to reproduce the observed distributions of\u00a0<sup>230<\/sup>Th and\u00a0<sup>231<\/sup>Pa in the western North Atlantic.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ggoceanclimategroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/satellite-image-of-bermuda-e1605631805155.jpg\" alt=\"satellite-image-of-bermuda\" height=\"480\" width=\"676\" title=\"satellite-image-of-bermuda\" \/>\n\t<p>December 2019<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This study investigates the impact of submarine groundwater discharge on a near-shore reef in Bermuda, where over 60% of sewage generated by the island&#8217;s 64,000 residents enters the groundwater through untreated cesspits.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured News November 2020 To get a better sense of how climate change might alter the patterns of major ocean storms, shifting the parameters of tropical cyclone hotspots, scientists reconstructed 3,000-years of storm history in the Marshall Islands. 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