Mini-Schools
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DOMINO Project
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There is more to "global warming" than carbon dioxide in the air and cars on the road. During this
Mini-School at Christopher Newport University's
Lifelong Learning Society,
researchers from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science will explain the ocean's role in climate change,
with particular emphasis on the tiny drifting
organisms that influence fundamental Earth processes by interacting with elements such as
nitrogen, iron, and carbon. Join Drs. Deborah Bronk, Walker Smith, and Deborah Steinberg and their graduate students as they journey
from the shallow waters of Chesapeake Bay to the clear blue depths of the Sargasso Sea and the icy waters of
Antarctica.
Documents and links on this web site will help mini-school participants get the most from the lectures. A guided tour of the Smith laboratory at VIMS on Friday, October 6th will round out the program. Funding for this Mini-School comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Global change research at VIMS is funded by grants from NSF's Biocomplexity, Ocean Science, Biological Oceanography, and Polar programs; the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP); and the U.S. Department of Energy. These grants support several large-scale research programs at VIMS, including DOMINO (Dissolved Organic Matter in the Ocean), IVARS (Interannual Variability in the Ross Sea), and VERTIGO (Vertical Transport in the Global Ocean). |
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