Oceanographers

Global warming driving seals to dive deep

9 Feb 2012

BREMERHAVEN, Germany, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Higher ocean temperatures caused by global warming are causing elephant seals to have to dive deeper in their search for food, German researchers say.

Ocean warming causes elephant seals to dive deeper

9 Feb 2012

Global warming is having an effect on the dive behaviour and search for food of southern elephant seals. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association cooperating in a joint study with biologists and oceanographers from the Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town have discovered that the seals dive deeper for food when in warmer water ...

Currents carrying Japanese tsunami debris to U.S. West Coast

6 Feb 2012

Oceanographers say it's not "if" but "when" debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan starts washing up along the Oregon Coast.