As it moves across the Indian Ocean, the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) can bring torrential rains to California and add power to hurricanes forming in the Gulf of Mexico. Yet after 30 years of studying this cyclical weather pattern scientists are no closer to understanding how it works.
Oceanography

The Exotic Seas of Southeast Asia
The ocean, unlike the globally enveloping atmosphere is segmented into seas, interconnected with passages of varied dimensions.
MGDS: Virtual Ocean - A Visualization Application for Ocean Data
Virtual Ocean integrates the GeoMapApp tool suite and the NASA World Wind 3-D
Climate Kids Corner
Activities and Links for K-12 children interested in oceanography and the climate
Southern Ocean Circulation and overturning
The ring of deep water around Antarctica not only links the major ocean [Atlantic/Pacific/Indian] , but also produces dense waters along the continental margins of the frozen continent, which sinks

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Arnold L. Gordon | Professor | My research is directed at the ocean's stratification, circulation and mixing and its role in Earth's climate system. |
| Ajit Subramaniam | Lamont Associate Research Professor | Oceanography, Remote sensing, Bio-Optics, Coastal Water Quality | |
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Bruce A. Huber | Senior Staff Associate | |
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William B. Ryan | Special Research Scientist | Ocean Floor and Sediments |
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Samar P. Khatiwala | Lamont Associate Research Professor | |
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Steven L. Goldstein | Professor | Isotope Geology |

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September 27, 2011
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September 14, 2011
Readers can follow a New York Times blog from the arctic as the U.S. flagship vessel for charting geology under the seabed sails the Chukchi Sea, north of Alaska and Siberia. By sending sound pulses to the seabed and reading the echoes, scientists conducting the Chukchi Edges project aboard the Marcus G. Langseth hope to understand the structure and history of the continental shelves running underwater off Asia and North America, and the Chukchi Borderland, an adjoing region of dramatic deep-sea plateaus and ridges some 800 miles from the North Pole.
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June 08, 2011
Starting today, armchair explorers will be able to view parts of the deep ocean floors in far greater detail than ever before, thanks to a new synthesis of seafloor topography released through Google Earth. Developed by oceanographers at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory from scientific data collected on research cruises, the new feature tightens resolution in covered areas from the former 1-kilometer grids to just 100 meters.
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November 16, 2009
The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era suggests the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions...

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Oxygen in the Ocean | Dynamics, Trends and New Observational Approaches |
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The Global Influence of the Southern Ocean | 2010 W.S. Jardetzsky Lecture |
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The Ocean Floor | What We Know and How We Know It |














