Climate of Our Future

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080707141722.htm
ScienceDaily (July 7, 2008) — From the surface, the two areas of ocean off the coasts of northern New Jersey and Long Island, New York look the same. But to NOAA scientists, the four-square-mile patches could not be more different as they view real-time underwater images and environmental data to try to figure out what lives there and how climate change is affecting marine life, especially very young fish.
“These areas are much more dynamic than terrestrial landscapes and not what we are used to thinking about the ocean,” said John Manderson, a fishery biologist with NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) at the James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sandy Hook, N.J. “People look at the ocean floor as the habitat, but don’t think about the connection with the water column above it and how ocean fronts, Keep Reading