Download or read book Ocean Margins Workshop written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing the refocusing of its marine research program to emphasize the study of ocean margins and their role in modulating, controlling, and driving Global Change phenomena. This is a proposal to conduct a workshop that will establish priorities and an implementation plan for a new research initiative by the Department of Energy on the ocean margins. The workshop will be attended by about 70 scientists who specialize in ocean margin research. The workshop will be held in the Norfolk, Virginia area in late June 1990.
Download or read book Ocean Margins in GOFS written by U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ocean Margin Processes in Global Change written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ocean Margin Systems written by Gerold Wefer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ocean margins are the transitional zones between the oceans and continents. They represent dynamic systems in which numerous processes shape the environment and result in impacting the utilization and hazard potentials for humans. These processes are influenced by a variety of steering mechanisms, from mountain building and climate on the land to tectonics and sea-level fluctuations in ocean margins. This book examines various aspects of regulation for the long-term development of ocean margins, of the impact of fluids and of the dynamics of benthic life at and below the seafloor in ocean margin systems.
Download or read book Ocean Margin Processes in Global Change written by R. F. C. Mantoura and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ocean margins, which comprise estuaries, coastal, shelf, and shelf-edge components, are a globally critical land-ocean interface controlling the anthropogenic and terrestrial fluxes and fates of chemicals and biological production to and from the open ocean. Given the importance placed on this topic by several working groups (JGOFS and IGBP), this workshop was organized as an international forum to evaluate not only the database on the role of ocean margins in global change, but also to identify critical areas requiring urgent research. At the workshop, ocean margins were identified as globally important sedimentary traps for terrestrial trace metals, particulates, and, unlike the open ocean, a large and globally significant proportion of the organic carbon production from phytoplankton in shelf seas. The background review papers and summary group reports provide an essential focus on future marine research. This volume should be of particular interest to oceanographers, marine chemists, climate modelers, organic geochemists, and pollution chemists as well as environmental microbiologists.
Download or read book North American Continental Margin written by North American Margins Working Group and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continental margins represent a potentially large, but largely unconstrained, flux of CO2 between the coastal ocean surface and atmosphere, with efforts to predict this flux generating estimates of either a sink or a source of approximately 1 Pg C yr-1, which is significant globally relative to, e.g., pelagic air-sea exchange. Large variability inherent in these settings makes extrapolation based on sparse sampling difficult. Further confounding these efforts are uncertainties as to the boundaries of the coastal margins, both in seaward and landward extent. There is sensitivity of global margin air-sea CO2-flux calculations to the inclusion or exclusion of estuaries. Other marginal environments, such as salt-marshes, mangrove forests, and tide flats may exchange large quantities of CO2 directly with the atmosphere, and it is unclear whether these fluxes are accounted for in regional to global scale CO2 budgets. In addition to air-sea gas exchange, the modes and magnitudes of carbon transport across other key boundaries in the coastal oceans are poorly understood. Net exchange between pelagic and coastal oceans; between estuaries and coastal oceans; between the coastal water column and seafloor; and between subaerial coastal environments and the atmosphere are all areas that have received limited study.
Download or read book Dynamics of the Continental Margins written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 18--20 June 1990, over 70 oceanographers conducting research in the ocean margins of North America attended a workshop in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The purpose of the workshop was to provide the Department of Energy with recommendations for future research on the exchange of energy-related materials between the coastal and interior ocean and the relationship between the ocean margins and global change. The workshop was designed to optimize the interaction of scientists from specific research disciplines (biology, chemistry, physics and geology) as they developed hypotheses, research questions and topics and implementation plans. The participants were given few restraints on the research they proposed other than realistic time and monetary limits. The interdisciplinary structure of the meeting promoted lively discussion and creative research plans. The meeting was divided into four working groups based on lateral, vertical, air/sea and sediment/water processes. Working papers were prepared and distributed before the meeting. During the meeting the groups revised the papers and added recommendations that appear in this report, which was reviewed by an Executive Committee.
Download or read book Margins written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 70 percent of the world's population is concentrated in the coastal borderlands, which geologists recognize to be the present continental margins. This new book on these continental margins provides a detailed account of a meeting which brought together specialists in marine and terrestrial geology, geochemistry, and geophysics. The workshop garnered widespread support and enthusiasm for a new direction in margins research focused on interdisciplinary studies of the fundamental processes of continental margin evolution. Scientific problems and solutions were identified for both divergent and convergent margins. Results of the workshop show that many of the fundamental plate interaction processes are common to all margins, whether formed by extension, contraction, or translation. This conclusion suggests a unified approach to margins research. A margins initiative has been proposed to follow up on the workshop results by developing science programs aimed at understanding the processes that control the initiation and evolution of continental margins.
Download or read book Ocean Margins in GOFS written by George A. Knauer and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conference on Continental Margin Mass wasting and Pleistocene Sea level Changes written by David W. Folger and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ocean Margin EXchange OMEX Final Annual Workshop Abstractswith Programme written by Univ. Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) (BE). Lab. d'OcéanographieChimique and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Workshop to Develop Scientific Ocean Drilling Initiatives in the South Atlantic and Adjacent Southern Ocean written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rifted Ocean Continent Boundaries written by E. Banda and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rifted Ocean-Continent Boundaries covers a wide range of topics, from quantitative modelling to current knowledge of the structure and evolution of specific margins around the world. Special emphasis is placed on the structure and evolution of various Atlantic margins. After an introduction to volcanic margin concepts, the first articles report the results of numerical models of the mechanics of rift propagation, melt generation and sources of extensional stresses that may cause break-up. One part of the book is dedicated to current knowledge of the structure and evolution of various Atlantic margins. After a brief incursion into the Mediterranean, succeeding articles report on the transform and active margins of the Ivory Coast-Ghana transform margin and the Sea of Japan.
Download or read book 1992 Proceedings International Conference on Arctic Margins written by Dennis K. Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geological Processes on Continental Margins written by M. S. Stoker and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 1998 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continental margins form the relatively narrow transition zones between the different domains of land masses and deep-ocean basins. They are the main regions of sediment input and transfer of sediments to the oceans and thus represent important zones of sediment flux. This work addresses three topics of significance to continental margin development: sedimentation, mass-wasting and stability. It should be of interest to marine geologists, sedimentologists, palaeoceanographers and physical properties specialists.
Download or read book OCEANOGRAPHY Volume I written by Chen-Tung Arthur Chen and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oceanography is a component of Encyclopedia of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. These volumes deal with the oceans as an integrated dynamic system, characterized by a delicate, complex system of interactions among the biota, the ocean boundaries with the solid earth and the atmosphere. This set of volumes is designed to be a very authoritative reference for state-of-the-art knowledge on the various aspects such as: Physical Oceanography, Chemistry of the oceans, Biological Oceanography, Geological oceanography, Coral Reefs as a Life Supporting System, Human Uses of the Oceans, Ocean Engineering, and Modeling the Ocean System from a Sustainable Development perspective. These volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.
Download or read book Catalogue of Accessioned Publications written by World Data Center A--Oceanography and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
