249 records returned for that searchSaipan Tribune
Samoa News
Samoa Observer
Samoan Sensation
News, travel, and other information on Samoa.
Samoan Snail Project
Ongoing research project under the auspices of the Bishop Museum’s Pacific Biological Survey.
San Andreas: An Animated Tectonic History of Western North America
Animated display of Southern California’s plate-tectonics history, from 20 million years ago to present day, including the San Andreas fault system, rotation of the Transverse Ranges, and the capture of the Baja California by the Pacific Plate. Drawn and animated by Tanya Atwater using PhotoShop and Morph.
Sanitary Mariculture: Protection of Marine Ecosystems from the Pollution
We offer to use sanitary mariculture for indemnification of these infringements. In the polluted regions, it is necessary to create a barrier from distribution of pollution. The cultivation of sea organisms on maricultural structures in the polluted waters is a real way of sea environment purification. Such clearing reduces pollution and excludes occurrence of ecological crises. With the using of sanitary mariculture, it is possible to withdraw a significant part of polluting substances from seawater. Organisms, which used for clearing water area, should withdrawn from maricultural farms. The creation of artificial spawning-ground and collectors for sea organisms settle should be create conditions for ecosystem restoration in the polluted zones.
Sasakawa Pacific Island Nations Fund
Science Council of Asia
The SCA brings together scientists and scientific organizations from all academic fields, including cultural and social sciences, as well as natural sciences and technology. At the conference hosted by a member country each year, the latest research results are presented, lectures are given by distinguished scientists, and discussions are held on a wide range of scientific issues. In addition, scientists from various countries work together to promote joint research projects and take part in activities mainly carried out by the United Nations, the United Nations University and other international scientific associations. The SCA has produced novel scientific knowledge and its presence is increasing each year through active efforts, thereby gaining importance in the Asian region. Since its first conference, the SCA has focused on sustainable development as the main theme in order to find out how human activities should be maintained and expanded as the Earth's resources are finite. In addressing this issue, however, it may be an extremely difficult task to formulate a single model that is applicable to all countries because Asia is economically and culturally diverse. Nevertheless, it is vital that we gather under the banner of the SCA, take the initiative in establishing a vision for sustainable development in Asia through dialogues among member countries, and strive to achieve the ultimate goal of developing Asia into a more prosperous, harmonious and greener region while providing scientific knowledge by acting in concert with international academic organizations such as the International Council for Science (ICSU), as well as the governments of member countries.
Science News from Scientific American
Brief articles on breaking scientific news from the magazine Scientific American.
Scripps Benthic Invertebrates Collection
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection houses over 40,000 lots, containing over 750,000 specimens. Approximately 20,000 lots are identified to genus level and 14,500 lots to species level. This material represents the collecting efforts of SIO scientists, scientists from other institutions, and donations from private collectors. While the holdings are worldwide in extent, they are primarily from the eastern Pacific. Click here to see a map of collection locations. The Collection has considerable material from Pacific deep sea (<1000m) locations, including the Tonga and Marianna Trenches. Samples were collected with a variety of devices from intertidal hand collecting and SCUBA to rock dredges and trawls.
Scripps Cored Sediment and Microfossil Collection
The SIO collection contains nearly 6,600 cores (15,000 refrigerated core sections) collected using gravity, piston, trigger, vibra- and box-coring techniques. It is the largest collection in the U.S. (outside that of the Ocean Drilling Program) of sediments from the Pacific Ocean and also contains extensive material from the other major ocean basins. Microfossils are the skeletal remains of marine organisms that either floated in the water column or lived on the sea floor. The Collections contain the raw samples, prepared microscope slides, and field notes from pioneering paleontologists who were the first to recognize and implement the use of marine microfossil remains for dating and correlating sediments. These include, for example, the very extensive Riedel/Sanfilippo radiolarian collection, M. N. Bramlette's calcareous nannofossil preparations, Fred Phleger's and Frances Parker's foraminifer collections (in part) and Patricia Doyle's microfossil fish teeth (ichthyoliths) collection.
Scripps Geological Data Center
The Geological Data Center, which might more accurately be named the Underway Marine Geophysical Data Center, was established in 1970 to process, archive and distribute underway (u/w) geophysical data collected on Scripps expeditions. The data handled by the data center include navigation, single and multibeam bathymetry, magnetics, gravity and seismic reflection profiler. The coverage includes all Scripps cruises that collected u/w data from the early 1950s to the present, mostly in the Pacific and to a lesser extent in the Indian and Atlantic oceans. Digital depth, magnetic and gravity data from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) and other sources are available as well. These data are on various media depending on the age and type of data: digital data online and on magnetic tape; 35mm flowfilm microfilm; original records; and hardcopy plots of navigation and single and multibeam bathymetry. The data center produces u/w data reports for each leg of major expeditions on the larger SIO ships, including the SIO Sample Index, a first level multidisciplinary index of scientific personnel, records, samples and measurements collected on these legs.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for marine science research, graduate training, and public service in the world. Scripps Institution was founded in 1903 as an independent biological research laboratory, which became part of the University of California in 1912. At that time the laboratory was given the Scripps name in recognition of supporters Ellen Browning Scripps and E. W. Scripps. Scripps staff numbers approximately 1,300, including about 90 faculty, nearly 300 other scientists, and some 200 graduate students. The institution's annual expenditures total more than $140 million. Research at Scripps encompasses physical, chemical, biological, geological, and geophysical studies of the oceans. Ongoing investigations include the topography and composition of the ocean bottom, waves and currents, and the flow and interchange of matter between seawater and the ocean bottom or the atmosphere. Scripps's research ships are used in these investigations throughout the world's oceans. More than 300 programs may be under way at any time, including studies of air-sea interaction, climate prediction, earthquakes, the physiology of marine animals, marine chemistry, beach erosion, the marine food chain, the ecology of marine organisms, the geological history of the ocean basins, and the multidisciplinary aspects of global change and the environment. Scripps operates a fleet of four ships and the platform FLIP for oceanographic research. Cruises range from local, limited-objective trips to far-reaching expeditions in the world's oceans.
Scripps Marine Vertebrates Collection
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Vertebrates Collection maintains approximately 2 million alcohol-preserved specimens in well over 100,000 lots, representing more than 5,000 species of fishes. The Collection includes worldwide holdings of deep-sea and pelagic fishes as well as extensive holdings of shore fishes from the entire eastern Pacific. The Collection includes primary types of over 180 species (type catalog), skeletal preparations (both dried and cleared-and-stained specimens in glycerin) of over 1000 species (osteology collection), otoliths from over 600 species (otolith collection), and tissues from over 250 species. Collection data for approximately 90,000 lots are available on a searchable database .
Sea Grant (USA)
Sea Grant is a nationwide network (administered through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]), of 30 university-based programs that work with coastal communities. The National Sea Grant College Program engages this network of the nation’s top universities in conducting scientific research, education, training, and extension projects designed to foster science-based decisions about the use and conservation of our aquatic resources. Sea Grant is NOAA’s primary university-based program in support of coastal resource use and conservation. Our research and outreach programs promote better understanding, conservation and use of America’s coastal resources. In short, Sea Grant is “science serving America’s coasts.”
Seacology
Seacology is dedicated to preserving the environments and cultures of islands throughout the globe. Too often, islanders around the world are told that they should make financial sacrifices on behalf of the environment, and receive nothing in return. Seacology searches for "win-win" situations that not only protect the local environment, but also provide tangible benefits to the islanders. In Samoa, Seacology's first project was to build a critically needed school in the remote village of Falealupo. In exchange, the village chiefs signed a covenant protecting 30,000 acres of pristine rainforest. In Nadogo Village, Fiji, Seacology has provided funding for basic access road improvements in exchange for a protective covenant preserving a 2,000-acre rainforest. Other projects are located in Polynesia / Melanesia (American Samoa, Fiji, Samoa, South Pacific Islands, Tahiti, Tonga), Southeast Asia (China, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam), Micronesia (Kosrae, Palau, Pohnpei, Yap), and The Pacific Ocean (Galapagos, Hawaii, Mexico, Taiwan).
SeaWeb
SeaWeb is a project designed to raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it. The ocean plays a critical role in our everyday life and in the future of our planet. We believe that as more people understand this and begin to appreciate the earth as a water planet, they will take actions to conserve the ocean and the web of life it supports. We, therefore, have constructed a web of our own -- a web of information that is anchored in science and interwoven with essential strands of social and political awareness. Through this web we will collect and communicate information about the importance and condition of the ocean to decisionmakers across the country -- and that includes individual citizens. We aim to provide information and opinion from a broad spectrum of sources to help us all discover our connections to the ocean and become involved in the life of the sea. We are not a membership organization or an environmental activist group. SeaWeb's approach is objective, but not neutral -- our bias is to protect the living ocean. SeaWeb's goal is to educate. Our methods and ways of communicating are varied. Through public polling, we monitor the changes in awareness of and care for the ocean. We sponsor or produce educational programs and announcements on radio, television, and film; and have established a SeaWeb site on the Internet's World Wide Web. With a team of scientists, researchers, educators, editors, and communication specialists, we are creating an independent ocean information center that reaches out to the media, to government officials, and to the interested public. In the process, we aim to raise awareness of and interest in the ocean to a high enough level that its continued well-being will become a priority for citizens of the United States and the world.
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Coastal Fisheries Programme
The CPC concentrates its development and advisory activities within the territorial and archipelagic waters of the Pacific Islands region (an area which contain a large proportion of the world's coral reefs).
Seismological Society of Japan
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