Mercury Levels Decrease in Pregnant Women
A study published in PLoS ONE has detailed a dramatic reduction in blood concentrations of methyl mercury in pregnant women in Bermuda.
BIOS Time Series Helps Scientists Confirm Ocean Acidification
In a unique collaboration researchers from around the globe have studied data from seven time-series and found that despite the varying geographic locations, each of the time-series sites exhibited similar changes in ocean chemistry due to anthropogenic CO2, confirming what many scientists have believed for years: ocean acidification is indeed changing ocean chemistry.
HSBC Corporate Partnership Breathes New Life into BIOS Ocean Academy Program
Part of BIOS’s year long Ocean Academy, HSBC Explorer offers students and teachers an opportunity to learn about local issues through a variety of hands-on lessons and activities.
Reactive Nitrogen in the Marine Atmosphere
Amy Gobel, an undergraduate student in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University working in the Environmental Quality Program lab with Dr. Andrew Peters, investigates how marine aerosols contribute to Nr deposition to the ocean downwind of North America.
From -40F to +90F: From Ice Cores to Hurricanes
Hans Christian Steen-Larsen, researcher at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement in Paris, in his quest to trace air masses and understand what controls the uptake of moisture, has traveled to Iceland, Greenland, throughout Europe and—most recently—to Bermuda.