Beginning with PiE 2023, each PiE meeting will feature a $2,000 award in the name of Sequoia’s co-founder, Dr. Yogi Agrawal: The Eva and Yogi Agrawal Award for Significant Contributions to our Science Through Novel Observations. The only stipulation...
A melting pot Researchers in oceanography come to the field from all sides: physicists, biologists, geologists, geographers, hydrologists, mathematicians and many more. As a result, there can be a confounding number of terms for the same thing. An example...
Remember the pandemic? Sequoia had purchased 80 Sequoia trees at a nursery in Germany and they were en route to Oceanology International in the UK where we were planning to exhibit. Oceanology 2020 was cancelled, leaving our German distributor, MacArtney...
In the 1960’s oceanographers started suggesting that sinking particles were a main source of food and nutrient delivery to deep-sea organisms. Sediment traps were soon conceived and deployed to investigate further (Wiebe et al., 1976). It was rapidly...
When we think of pollution in our rivers, lakes, or oceans, we often picture oil slicks or floating plastic bottles. But suspended sediment is an important agent that must not be overlooked. Suspended sediment can act like a vehicle for pollutants, carrying...