Fishes are well known for their remarkable maneuverability and agility. Less visible is the continuous control of stability essential for the exploitation of the full range of aquatic resources. Perturbations to posture and trajectory arise from hydrostatic and hydrodynamic forces centered in a fish (intrinsic) and from the environment (extrinsic). Hydrostatic instabilities arise from vertical …

The flow of liquid metal inside the Earth’s core produces the geomagnetic field and its time variations. Understanding the variability of those deep currents is crucial to improve the forecast of geomagnetic field variations and may provide relevant information on the core dynamics. The main goal of this study is to extract and characterize the leading variability modes of c…

An intraplate slow earthquake was detected in northernmost Hokkaido, Japan, by a dense network of the global navigation satellite system. Transient abnormal acceleration of <12 mm was observed during the period 2012 July to 2013 January (∼5.5 months) at several sites. The spatial displacement distribution suggests that a localized tectonic event caused localized deformation. Estimated fau…

This study examined the behavioral response of two marine copepods, Acartia tonsa and Temora longicornis, to a Burgers’ vortex intended to mimic the characteristics of a turbulent vortex that a copepod is likely to encounter in the coastal or near-surface zone. Behavioral assays of copepods were conducted for two vortices that correspond to turbulent conditions with mean dissipation rates of …

In this study, a new method for computing the sensitivity of the glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) forward solution with respect to the Earth’s mantle viscosity, the so-called the forward sensitivity method (FSM), and a method for computing the gradient of data misfit with respect to viscosity parameters, the so-called adjoint-state method (ASM), are presented. These advanced formal me…

Subsurface velocities within the Earth often contain piecewise-constant structures with sharp interfaces. Acoustic- and elastic-waveform inversion (AEWI) usually produces smoothed inversion results of subsurface geophysical properties. We develop novel AEWI methods using a modified total-variation regularization scheme to preserve sharp interfaces in piecewise constant structures and impr…

The importance of unsteadiness in the aquatic environment has come to the forefront in understanding locomotor mechanics in nature. The impact of unsteadiness, starting with control of posture and trajectories during aquatic locomotion, is ultimately expressed in energy costs, morphology, and fitness. Unsteadiness from both internal and external perturbations for aquatic animals is important at…

The North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis (NARW), a critically endangered species that has been under intensive study for nearly four decades, provides an excellent case study for applying modern methods of conservation physiology to large whales. By combining long-term sighting histories of known individuals with physiological data from newer techniques (e.g., body condition estimat…

Fermat’s interferometric principle isused to compute interior transmission travel times τpq from exterior transmission traveltimes τsp and τsq. Here, the exterior travel times are computed for sourcess on a boundary B that encloses a volume V of interior points p and q. Once the exterior traveltimes are computed, no further ray tracing is needed to calculate the interior times …

Green tides are large growths or accumulations of green seaweeds that have been increasing in magnitude and frequency around the world. Because green tides consist of vast biomasses of algae in a limited area and are often seasonal or episodic, they go through periods of rapid growth in which they take up large amounts of nutrients and dissolved gases and generate bioactive natural products tha…