The size of the bioavailable (i.e., “fixed”) nitrogen inventory in the ocean influences global marine productivity and the biological carbon pump. Despite its importance, the pre-industrial rates for the major source and sink terms of the oceanic fixed nitrogen budget, N₂ fixation and denitrification, respectively, are not well known. These...
Sue Kunda explores the history of Oregon's public land-grant college, Oregon State University (OSU), through examples from over one hundred years of the university's Extension and Experiment Station Communications (EESC) publications. More than 8,000 of those publications are NOW available online covering a range of topics including rural homemaking practices,...
Southwestern US irrigated landscapes are facing
upheaval due to water scarcity and land use conversion associated
with climate change, population growth, and changing
economics. In the traditionally irrigated valleys of northern
New Mexico, these stresses, as well as instances of community
longevity in the face of these stresses, are apparent....
The Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT), an activity of the international marine carbon research community, provides access to synthesis and gridded fCO2 (fugacity of carbon dioxide) products for the surface oceans. Version 2 of SOCAT is an update of the previous release (version 1) with more data (increased from 6.3...