'Earth's civilizations are shaped by what the ocean engine does,' says oceanographer Helen Czerski

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In this interview, British oceanographer Helen Czerski explains the systems driving our ocean, compares it to a fancy cocktail, and explains what the next great ocean frontier is.

'Earth's civilizations are shaped by what the ocean engine does,' says oceanographer Helen Czerski : Read more

 

[Broadlands]

It is a myth that the ocean turnover takes hundreds of years. Back in the late 1980s oceanographers were surprised to find man-made CFCs in the abyssal depths of the ocean in the Antarctic Weddell Sea.

Dissolved chiorofluorocarbon studies in the Weddell Sea
JOHN L. BULLISTER

What down-wells in one place upwells in another....south Atlantic?

 

[MarinTomuta]

Life is like that: one organisms waste is another organism's essentials to survive.
Onwards Sunwards!