It's been a productive season for oceanographers Matthew Schmidt, Ping Chang, Mitch Lyle and Steve DiMarco. Chang is lead author on a recent PNAS article, and Schmidt is lead author on a second one with Chang also contributing. Lyle is a contributing author in a Nature article. And DiMarco has received more than 25 million unique views in media around the world for his recent hypoxia research in the Gulf of Mexico.

Three hundred ninety-seven miles of beaches; an abundant source of vacation activities; ample fishing, waterfowl hunting, and birding; major ports that are the economic engine of the community; commercial fisheries—this is the Texas Gulf Coast, an abundance of natural resources with an economic interplay critical to the state of Texas (read more).

Science pioneers are blazing a trail to identify pathways oil and gas use to move from deep to surface waters – an entry point for pollutants to damage shorelines and become airborne. Near the Deepwater Horizon spill site, researchers are investigating mixing patterns in the deep ocean by following the path of an inert tracer, trifluoromethyl sulfur pentafluoride, injected at about 1,100 meters depth and recording ocean conditions along the way (read more).

AAAS names Thomas Bianchi a Fellow

Prestigious scientific organization will induct Bianchi in February

Washington D.C.—Thomas Bianchi, Department of Oceanography, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

As part of the Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science, Bianchi was selected as an AAAS Fellow for fundamental contributions to understanding the organic carbon cycling in coastal marine environments and for help in defining the field through his synthesis efforts (read more).

The melting rate of certain glaciers in Antarctica is unmistakably accelerating and the most direct link to global warming is in the unknown adjustment of the surrounding Southern Ocean. That leads to not only an uncertain future stability of the icy continent but also raises questions about the pace of sea level rise around the world, according to work by a Texas A&M University researcher (read more).

Texas A&M oceanographer guest edits scholarly magazine

As with any profession, scientists yearn for the moment they can look at their work and realized they’ve made it. For one Texas A&M oceanographer, the chance to be a guest editor for the prestigious Oceanography magazine represents the culmination of a career well spent – after years of research in the Southern Ocean aboard the RVIB Nathanial B. Palmer, Dr. Alejandro Orsi was privileged to tell the world about the vessel that made his research possible. (read more)

Bombs in Gulf of Mexico Pose Big Problems

Millions of pounds of unexploded bombs and other military ordnance that were dumped decades ago in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as off the coasts of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, could now pose serious threats to shipping lanes and the 4,000 oil and gas rigs in the Gulf, warns two Texas A&M University oceanographers. (read more)

Good new from the bad drought: Gulf "Dead Zone" smallest in years

The worst drought to hit the United States in at least 50 years does have one benefit: it has created the smallest “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico in years, says a Texas A&M University researcher who has just returned from gulf waters (read more).

Hurricanes that pass over fresh water can be stronger

If a hurricane's path carries it over large areas of fresh water, it will potentially intensify 50 percent faster than those that do not pass over such regions, meaning it has greater potential to become a stronger storm and be more devastating, according to a study co-written by a group of researchers at Texas A&M University (read more).

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