Drake

• The session is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. (CDT) on Friday, Oct. 27.
• The Drake and Risk Opportunity Forum is a complimentary hybrid event (i.e., in person and virtual) where attendees can learn from professionals on how to manage risks in financial and non-financial organizations.
• For more information on the event, which will be held at Drake University in the Cowles Library Reading Room, please visit the event website .
• AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specializing in the insurance industry.

• TORONTO, Oct. 2, 2023 /CNW/ - SiriusXM announced today that seven-time GRAMMY® Award winning singer, songwriter, John Mayer, will launch an exclusive year-round SiriusXM channel, Life With John Mayer, in November.
• Life With John Mayer, will be curated and presented by Mayer.
• SiriusXM's newest 24/7 channel will be available to subscribers across North America in their cars on channel 14 or anywhere they go with the SiriusXM app.
• The exclusive year-round channel joins SiriusXM's artist channel lineup which includes The Beatles Channel, The Grateful Dead Channel, Pearl Jam Radio, Drake's Sound 42, and more.

• At the base of this food web are tiny phytoplankton – algae that grow at the ocean surface, taking up carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, just as plants on land do.
• Because of their small size, phytoplankton are at the mercy of the ocean’s swirling motions.

The Drake Passage

• The Drake Passage is notorious for its violent seas, with waves that can top 40 feet (12 meters) and powerful converging currents, some flowing as fast as 150 million cubic meters per second.
• New scientific research I am involved in as an oceanographer now shows how the Drake Passage and a few other specific areas of the Southern Ocean play an outsize role in how the oceans lock up carbon from the atmosphere.
• And in the Drake Passage, my colleagues and I have found that undersea mountains are stirring things up.

The role of ocean layers

• The ocean can be visualized as having layers.
• Since water prefers to keep its density constant, it mostly moves horizontally and doesn’t easily move between the surface and deep ocean.
• Yet despite this physical barrier, water testing shows that carbon dioxide produced by human activities is making its way into the deep ocean.

A view into the Drake Passage

• However, recent work has shown that this process may actually be dominated by only a few areas – including the Drake Passage.
• The main flow of the Drake Passage is created by the effect of strong westerly winds across the Southern Ocean.
• However, at the Drake Passage, phytoplankton can be swept to depth before this happens, meaning the carbon they’ve taken up from the atmosphere is sequestered in the deep ocean.
• Investigating the Drake Passage and other oceanographic windows allows science to home in on better understanding climate change and the workings of our blue planet.

• Macrae , a premier transatlantic legal search firm that places partners, groups and senior government attorneys at the worlds leading law firms, is pleased to share the news that Lawdragon has recognized more than half of its recruiters as 2022 Global 100 Leaders in Legal Strategy & Consulting .
• Its exciting to see so many Macrae recruiters named to the Lawdragon 100.
• This year marks his fourth consecutive appearance on the Lawdragon 100; he was profiled by the publication here .
• He joined Macrae in 2022 after nearly a decade at New York boutique Greene-Levin-Snyder, where he was co-head of Lateral Partner Placement.