"If results hold up, they give us a better historical perspective on snowpack than we've had before," says Tim Barnett, a marine physicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California.
People are using the waterways more than before," said Andrew Juhl, a marine biologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York.
"I'd never heard anyone hypothesize about coral detecting sound before," said Ann Tarrant, a marine biologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who was not involved in the study.
A few minutes before the deadline, a Marine "just released from active duty and newly registered" walks up to the professor and knocks him out with one punch.
Before, he was a Marine," said Hiroji Yamashiro, 63, an activist who has spent 700 days protesting plans to expand the Marines Camp Schwabb in the village of Henoko to allow the closure of Futenma Air Base, situated smack in the middle of Ginowan City.
"We have never seen such a strange creature before," said Elsa Cabrera, a marine biologist and director of the centre for cetacean conservation in Santiago.
He packed several distinguished careers into his life before becoming a senator as a marine in Vietnam, a lawyer, a much-published author and secretary of the navy in the Reagan administration.
After all, he had been a Labour supporter as a marine, before he joined the Liberal party in 1975 - at which time he is popularly supposed to have been serving with MI6 in Geneva under the cover of being the first secretary to the UK mission to the UN.
