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The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project (SOCCOM) is an NSF-sponsored program focused on unlocking the mysteries of the Southern Ocean and determining its influence on climate.

On this week’s episode of Zona Politics: UA professor of geosciences Joellen Russell talks about how climate change is affecting the world’s oceans.

Because it serves as the primary gateway through which the intermediate, deep, and bottom waters of the ocean interact with the atmosphere, the Southern Ocean has a profound influence on the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon and heat. Yet it is the least observed and understood region of the world ocean because of harsh conditions…. View Article

Heidi Cullen – Climate Central Joellen Russell – University of Arizona Lynne Talley – Scripps Institution of Oceanography Veronica Tamsitt – Scripps Institution of Oceanography Greg Brusseau – University of Washington Isabella Rosso – Scripps Institution of Oceanography

At the helm of the nation’s most popular oceanography class, University of Arizona professor Joellen Russell inspires thousands of students to study our vital life support system; the oceans of the world. Each semester over 600 students study with Russell, whose research focuses on the ocean’s role in climate.

We asked thirty climate scientists gathered for the 2015 Comer Climate Conference to answer the same question. What is one big question you’d like to answer through your research? Here is what a few of them had to say.

Join a live discussion with the lead scientists and researchers behind the NSF-funded SOCCOM Southern Ocean research project. This webinar coincides with the launch this week of the Polarstern cruise that will deploy the first round of SOCCOM floats.

Joellen Russell shares a true story at the September 10, 2014 Odyssey show, “Out of this World: Amazing, Supernatural or Unforgettable.”

We asked climate scientists gathered for the annual Abrupt Climate Change Conference about the one big question they’d like to answer. Here is what some of them had to say.

The first report to be released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment will be released on Sept. 27, 2013. The Working Group 1 report, entitled “The Physical Science Basis,” covers what we know about how the Earth’s climate is changing and why, as well as what climate change is likely in the future, depending on the levels of greenhouse gases emitted by humans over the next century and beyond.