Wolfgang “Wolf” Berger, an oceanographer, author, longtime professor and former interim director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, died August 6 at the ...

Paleoceanography investigates the history of Earth’s oceans by reconstructing past ocean temperatures, circulation patterns, chemistry and ecosystems through geological proxies. This field elucidates ...

In the field of paleoclimatology, our overarching objective is to use the geologic record to understand how Earth’s climate system operates. Paleoceanography may focus on the role of the oceans in ...

Benthic foraminifera are single-celled marine protists that inhabit the seabed and build calcareous or agglutinated tests. Their widespread distribution and rapid environmental sensitivity make them ...

Understanding ancient ocean temperatures—particularly from the Cenozoic era (the past 66 million years), in which Earth experienced dramatic climate shifts—helps scientists reveal more about the ...

Deep-sea sediment deposits and properties controlled by currents / Ian Nicholas McCave -- Continuous physical properties of cored marine sediments / Guillaume St.-Onge ... [et al.] -- Magnetic ...

TIMES is the title of the international team's project, which is an acronym for "Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences." The idea behind it is to launch a global program with the aim of ...

The study of the oceans and ecology of marine organisms in the geologic past, largely through the marine sedimentary record. The Human Ecology Laboratory groups together students and researchers to ...