In China Daily, Prof Gong Jianhua, a maritime affairs specialist at Guangdong Ocean University, welcomes the new coast guard, but says China should promote joint development with neighbours in the South China Sea on the basis of a China-Asean free trade zone to ease "anxiety and suspicion".
"If you extrapolate these results, Greenland is going to be a serious contributor to global sea-level rise" in coming years, said Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge, England, who wasn't involved in the Science study.
Eco transportation charted the ocean blue as well as researchers at Boston University unveiled plans for a fleet of ships that generate energy from the motion of the ocean.
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Although the new iceberg isn't as colossal as its 2010 predecessor, its birth has moved the front end of the massive glacier farther inland than it has been in 150 years, Andreas Muenchow, an associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware, said in a statement.
Mr Smith took a degree in Ocean Science and Marine Navigation at the University of Plymouth.
"The Maule earthquake will arguably become one of the, if not the most important, great earthquakes yet studied, " said Ben Brooks of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii.
Also coming up on the show today, a fellow at Columbia University wants to dump iron dust into the ocean.
"Ice shelves are sensitive to atmospheric warming and to changes in ocean currents and temperatures, " Helmut Rott from the University of Innsbruck said in an statement from the space agency.
It included the Carbon Trust, National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec), and Ocean Energy Innovation - a group of major players in renewables including the University of Strathclyde.
Ken Mankoff is a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studies ice and ocean interactions.
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Keith Briffa, from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, said the tropical ocean regions were among the more reliable areas from which to infer large-scale temperature changes.
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Today we flew to Fairbanks and went to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for presentations on the diversity of the Arctic Ocean and how climate change is impacting the region.
Bangor University paid tribute to Dr Morgan, a former student who became a lecturer in its school of ocean sciences in January.
Margaret Kivelson, of the University of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues, deduced the existence of Europa's ocean using data collected by Galileo, an American spacecraft that is orbiting Jupiter.
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