OCEANOGRAPHYARTICLES ONLINE

This is a list of selected articles published within the last several years in periodicals that are aimed primarily at people with an introductory science background. I selected these papers for their general interest and relevance for modern oceanographic sciences. Enjoy!

- Keith M.

NOTE: These articles come as either web pages (.htm files) or Portable Document Format (.pdf files). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download .pdf files. To get a free download of Acrobat Reader, click this link: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

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The Biggest Fish [article about whale sharks] by S.G. Wilson (Natural History Magazine, April 2006 web archive.)

http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/Biggest_Fish.htm

Do Jellyfish Rule the World? [article about recent population explosion of jellyfish] by T. Mallon (Discover Magazine, vol. 28.9 (Sept 2007), p. 42-48.

http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/jellyfish_rule.html

Down on the Farm…Raising Fish [article about fish farming] by Hauke L. Kite-Powell (Oceanus magazine, v. 43, no. 1, 2004). http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/raisingfish.pdf

Drilling Back to the Future [article about using ice cores to learn about past climates] by Ross D. Powell, Robert M. DeConto and David Pollard (Geotimes Magazine, March 2006 web archive.) http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/Ice_Drilling.htm

How the Isthmus of Panama Put Ice in the Arctic [article about how plate tectonics, by forming new land, can change ocean circulation and climate] by Gerald Haug and others (Oceanus magazine, v. 42, no. 2, 2004). http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/PanamaArctic.pdf

Ironing out Algal Issues in the Southern Ocean [article about fertilizing the ocean with iron to reduce global warming] by Phillip Boyd (Science, April 2004). http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/iron.pdf

Oil in Our Coastal Backyard [article about coastal oil pollution] by Christopher M. Reddy (Oceanus magazine, v. 43, no. 1, 2004). http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/oilbackyard.pdf

Origins of Water on Earth [article about where and how the Earth got its water] by James Kasting (Scientific American special issue: The Solar System, 2003) http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/waterorigins.pdf

Sociable Killers [article about Great White Sharks] by R. Aidan Martin and Anne Martin (Natural History Magazine, October 2006 web archive.) http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/Social_Whitesharks.htm

Tub Toys Orbit the Pacific Subarctic Gyre [article about using toys lost from ocean freighters to track ocean currents] by Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer and others, EOS Transactions, January 2, 2007, p. 1-4 http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/TubToys.htm

When Seafloor meets Ocean, the Chemistry is Amazing [article about natural gas formation on the seabed] by Jean K. Whelan (Oceanus magazine, v. 42, no. 2, p. 66-71, 2004) http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/seabedgas.pdf

Wherever the Wind May Blow [article about tracking ocean seabirds] by Henri Weimerskirch (Natural History Magazine, October 2004 web archive.) http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/Tracking_Seabirds.htm

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