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One Man's Noise: Stories Of An Adventuresome Oceanographer

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28m 10s

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Education

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10 Jan, 2008

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This 1994 Emmy award winning program traces the work and adventurous life of renowned oceanographer Walter Munk, from his explorations into the mysteries of waves to monitoring global warming. [2/1997] [Science] [Show ID: 636]

Uc San Diego: Roger Revelle's Vision

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7m 34s

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Education

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19 Nov, 2010

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As the University of California, San Diego, celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year there is one person that won't be overlooked, Roger Revelle. It was his visionary leadership and steadfast dedication that made the dream of a University of California campus a reality in San Diego. This video was ...

Perspectives On Ocean Science: Global Sea Level: An Enigma

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53m 26s

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Education

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15 Feb, 2008

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The rate of global sea level rise and its causes has been debated for a century. Despite 100 years of scientific scrutiny, no definitive conclusion has been reached. Join Dr. Walter Munk as he describes why 20th century sea level rise remains an enigma, and why scientists still grapple with whether ...

Physics Of Surfing

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2m 24s

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Education

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03 Jun, 2008

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Students who take UC San Diego's Physics of Surfing class get to go to beach, ride a board into the waves and see how physics works in the real world. Back in the classroom, they learn about how waves form, how they travel through the world's oceans and that surfboards follow the laws of fluid mecha...

The Body Politic: Election 2006

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29m 31s

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Education

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07 Feb, 2008

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Political scientist Thad Kousser of UCSD offers a ballot debriefer to host Michael Bernstein on voter choices in the November election, followed by a discussion on what it would take to build an airport off the coast of San Diego with Scripps oceanographer Walter Munk and Frieder Seible, the dean of...

Journey To Scammon's Lagoon

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9m 58s

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Travel & Events

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03 Apr, 2011

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This is video I took in Baja California at Guerrero Negro a birth place of the California Gray Whales. Scammon's Lagoon is a protected "nursery" where the newborn whales are born and readied for their long journey north to Alaska. The trip was arranged through Birch and UCSD and I was invited to joi...

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Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues To Life’s Origins

Date:

Jan 04, 2024

Category:

Science

Source:

Quanta Magazine

the wildest hearsay. The plan hatched over an alcohol-infused breakfast at the La Jolla home of the geologist Walter Munk was to drill a hole so deep it would punch through Earths crust and reach the planets mantle, a hot, rocky layer sandwiched between Earths crust and its core.

Stanford Researchers Find That Swarms Of Tiny Organisms Mix Nutrients In Ocean Waters

Date:

Apr 18, 2018

Category:

Health

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Stanford University News

terms of forces that drive the mixing of oceans, wind and tidal currents are thought to play the largest role. But he wondered if giant zooplankton migrations could also be involved an idea first proposed by oceanographer Walter Munk in 1966, and since then debated but never systematically explored.

The Earth's Rotation Could Be Thrown Off By Glaciers Melt, Rising Sea Levels

Date:

Dec 15, 2015

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Sci/Tech

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University Herald

According to The Washington Post, an oceanographer named Walter Munk published a paper in 2002 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the relation of sea level rise to the Earth's rotation. The paper has since become known as "Munk's Enigma."

Rising Sea Levels Could Speed Up Earth's Rotation

Date:

Dec 15, 2015

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Sci/Tech

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The Space Reporter

For awhile, researchers did not find evidence of the expected increase in Earths rotation. This lack of evidence was known as Munks enigma, named for oceanographer Walter Munk ofthe Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who in 2002 first pointed it out.

Climate Change Is A Drag (On Earth), Study Says

Date:

Dec 15, 2015

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Sci/Tech

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KSPR

His research is a response to a 2002 paper by oceanographer Walter Munk, who found discrepancies between the rate of slowing in Earth's rotation and prevailing theories about average sea level increases over the century.

Study: As Glaciers Melt And Sea Levels Rise, Earth Spins Slower

Date:

Dec 15, 2015

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Sci/Tech

Source:

UPI.com

But in 2002, oceanographer Walter Munk showed significant glacial melting and sea level rise hadn't affected Earth's rotation or axis position as previous models predicted they would. The quandary became known as "Munk's enigmna."

Hold On, The Earth May Be Spinning Faster Due To Warming

Date:

Dec 15, 2015

Source:

BABW News

Back in 2002, Walter Munk published a scientific quandary known as Munks enigma, in which a discrepancy was noted between the effect on the planet that should have occurred with the amount of sea level rise in the 20th century and the actual effect.

Earth May Spin Faster As Glaciers Melt

Date:

Dec 14, 2015

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Sci/Tech

Source:

CBS News

evidence that melting glaciers were triggering a shift in either Earth's rotation or axis that was as great as predicted. This problem is known as "Munk's enigma," after oceanographer Walter Munk at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who first noted the mystery, in 2002.

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Ocean Acoustic Tomography

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Walter Munk

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0521470951

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