This study examined whether La Nina had increased phytoplankton productivity in Hawaiian ocean waters. Dissolved oxygen was measured at four stations with inconclusive results.

The Puget Sound region with its high, steep bluffs is subject to landslides. An area of Puget Sound off Camano Island, near Onamac Point, was studied to determine if sediments there were a result of a landslide. The volume ...

Manganese (Mn) in hydrothermal vent plumes is an indicator of the vent characteristics that spawned the plume. Mn concentrations in Pele's Pit in Hawaii and the Cleft segment in the Juan de Fuca Ridge were compared. Mn was ...

The Loihi seamount is an active underwater volcano that has several known venting sites including Pele's Pit. CTD data were gathered and analyzed to characterize the recent volcanic activity of Pele's Pit. It was determined ...

[author supplied abstract] Freshwater layers were discovered at intermediate depths north of the Kuroshio Extension front in February 2013. The anomalous layers of freshwater were determined to have originated in the Sea ...

In 2005 two large seafloor mounds 30-40m high and approximately 350m in diameter were partially imaged in Southern Hood Canal.The geophysical and sediment data indicate that the mounds are at least 12,000 years old and ...

[Author's abstract] Nitrogen is a limiting nutrient controlling oceanic primary production and important to the global carbon cycle. Consequently the nitrogen cycle is important to understanding how the oceans will react ...

[Author's Abstract] The California Undercurrent is a current that moves northward beneath the surface waters along the Western Coast of North America from the Eastern Tropical North Pacific. It is important to understand ...

In this study, dissolved oxygen was measured in Barkley Sound and Effingham Inlet with the use of a CTD and Winkler titrations. Oxygen minimum zones or "dead zones" in the world's oceans can be strongly influenced by ...

[Author's Abstract] The marine nitrogen cycle plays an important role in primary productivity by supplying primary producers with the essential nutrient nitrate. The expansion of oxygen minimum zones in the oceans is causing ...