广西海监工作任重道远

羊年伊始，广西海洋局捷报频传：１月荣获2002年度全国海域管理先进单位称号；2月16日中国海监广西壮族自治区总队在南宁市正式挂牌成立。国家海洋局王曙光局长、自治区人民政府王万宾副主席亲自为总队的成立揭牌并作了重要指示。这支队伍的成立，标志着广西又一支海上综合执法     

太平洋命名的历史

在一个风帆远航为海上最快速交通工具的时代里,大陆和海洋向着不可知的远方延伸着,人类显然无法测定各大海域的界限。在一些有关混沌初开的神话传说里,人类深感大海的浩渺辽阔,以人类自身的渺小,如何给这片无边无际的永恒大海命名呢?     

海洋科技人才与成果的摇篮——青岛海洋大学

青岛海洋大学是一所以海洋和水产学科为特色的重点综合大学。1999年11月，经国家批准，成为“九五”期间“211工程”重点建设高校。数年来，青岛海大致力于“211工程”建设，在物理海洋学、水产养殖学、海洋药物学和海洋化学学科4个重点学科建设中取得丰硕成果。     

Mantle processes during ocean formation：Petrologic records in peridotites from the Alpine－Apennine ophiolites

Mantle peridotites were early exposed at the sea-floor of the Jurassic Tethys derived from the subcontinental mantle of the Europe-Adria system. During continental rifting and oceanic spreading, these lithospheric peri-dotites were percolated via diffuse reactive porous flowby melt fractions produced by near-fractional melting of the upwelling asthenosphere. Ascending melts inter-acted with the lower lithosphere, dissolving pyroxenes and precipitating olivine, and crystallized at shallower levels in the mantle column causing melt impregnation.Subsequent focused porous flow formed replacive dunitechannels, cutting the impregnated oeridotites, which were conduits for upward migration of MORB-type liq-uids. Melt migration produced depletionlrefertilization and significant heating of the percolatedlimpregnated mantle, i.e the thermochemical erosion of the litho-sphere. Impregnated and thermally modified lithos-pheric mantle was cooled by conductive heat loss dur-ing progressive lithosphere thinning and was intrudeaby MORB magmas, which formed Mg-rich and Fe-richgabbroic dykes and bodies. Alpine-Apennine ophiolitic peridotites record the deep-seated migration of melts which changed their compositions and dynamics during the rift evolution. The thermochemical erosion of the lithospheric mantle by the ascending asthenospheric melts, which induces significant compositional and rhe-ological changes in the lower lithosphere, is a major process in the evolution of the continent-ocean transi-tion towards a slow spreading oceanic system.     

赤潮

严格来讲,赤潮是一种自然现象。《圣经》中记载的河水变红、《聊斋志异》里提到的河水发光,或许是民间对赤潮类事件最古朴也最形象的记录。1831～1836年达尔文乘“Beagle”号环球航行时也对赤潮做过相关记录,虽然那时尚无人提出明确的“赤潮”概念。近几十年来由于对人类的娱乐及生产活动影响越来越严重,频繁发生的赤潮逐渐被界定为环境污染及海洋灾害的一种。河里的水都变作血了。河里的鱼死了,河也腥臭了,埃及人就不能吃这河里的水,埃及遍地都有了血。——《旧约·出埃及记》众坐舟中,旋见青火如灯状,突出水面,随水浮游;渐近舡,则火顿灭…     

桂林海洋世界的“父亲们”

如同在浩瀚的大海里，桂林海洋世界里也聚集了许许多多、形形色邑的“爸爸”。     

诗意的海洋学——记现代海洋科学创始人马修·莫里

马修·莫里(MatthewF.Maury,1806-1873),美国海军军官,海洋学创始人之一。他的《海洋自然地理》出版于1855年,至今已有150年的历史,是现代海洋科学最早的教科书,并成为世界科学出版物的一个里程碑。莫里从一名普通的海员成为一名海洋科学家,曾写下许多有关海洋科学的著作,《海洋自然地理》是他一生的巅峰之作。