UC Santa Cruz: Dead Zones Formed Repeatedly In North Pacific During Warm Climates, Study Finds - Watsonville, CA - An analysis of sediment cores from the Bering Sea has revealed a recurring relationship between warmer climates and abrupt episodes of l .
An analysis of sediment cores from the Bering Sea has revealed a recurring relationship between warmer climates and abrupt episodes of low-oxygen dead zones in the subarctic North Pacific Ocean over the past 1.2 million years. The findings provide crucial information for understanding the causes of low oxygen or hypoxia in the North Pacific and for predicting the occurrence of hypoxic conditions in the future.
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In 2010, Japanese scientists from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s Expedition 329 sailed into the South Pacific Gyre with a giant drill and a big question.
The gyre is a marine desert more barren than all but the aridest places on Earth. Ocean currents swirl around it, but within the gyre, the water stills and life struggles because few nutrients enter. Near the center is both the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility (made famous by H.P. Lovecraft as the home of the be-tentacled Cthulhu) and the South Pacific garbage patch. At times the closest people are astronauts passing above on the International Space Station.