oceanography

“I see a ton of debris that's out here, definitely a lot of build-up of sand along the fences, because I think the storms have consecutively just been hitting back to back to back,” said Stephanie Dohner, a University of Delaware PhD oceanography candidate. Dohner and lab technician Hunter Tipton are ...

An ocean-observing satellite developed by China and France will be launched in September, according to China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT). The China-France Oceanography Satellite will be launched aboard a Long March 2C rocket, which was developed by the CALT. The satellite is ...

Jules Jaffe, a research oceanographer at the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, wanted to get a better sense of how and where plankton move. His “autonomous miniature underwater robot drifters” are proxies for the tiny organisms ...

It took us about 10 years to get built,” said Dr. Phil Kramer, director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography. “We're excited to finally have it on the water here, ready to go.” UWF students in various research labs took trips on the vessel during the week to test the new ship's capabilities. Their work included ...

Professor Ed Hill, Executive Director of the National Oceanography Centre, said in a statement that the report showed more research was required to understand the effect plastic pollution is having on marine organisms. "There is still more work to be done to achieve greater knowledge of the marine ...

The KPBS Drought Tracker follows rainfall and snowpack conditions, with the help of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and both indicators are significantly below where they should be for this time of year. Rainfall totals are well outside local norms for this time of year, according to the numbers compiled ...

“It's really cool that with our little experiments, we get clues about how this process has been going on in the past and why those plates are positioned the way they are now,” said van Dam, who studies geological oceanography at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography in ...

Sea Angels' team members Emily An and Liliana Valle perform the team handshake as team member as Ike Gugel talks to another team member. This superstitious team has pre-competition rituals from which it never strays. And all of the team members say they plan to study academic fields in the sciences ...

In this Tuesday, March 6, 2018 photo, University of Rhode Island graduate student in geological oceanography Loes van Dam, of Novato, Calif., adjusts belts rotating in a tank of 2,000 pounds of corn syrup in a lab, in Narragansett, R.I. During experiments, the syrup represents the Earth's mantle which melts ...

Although researchers are not yet projecting dire circumstances for both vast regions of our oceans and the planet's climate — the potential cascading effects of their collapse are troubling. "It's significant and worrisome," said Andrew Allen, who researches microbial oceanography and ecology at the Scripps ...

Prior to serving at TAMUCC, Cifuentes was on the faculty of Texas A&M University College Station, where he rose from assistant professor to professor in the Department of Oceanography. He also served as executive associate dean and associate dean for research in the College of Geosciences at Texas ...

Enter Subrahmanyam “Subra” Bulusu, professor of satellite oceanography and physical oceanography and founder of the university's state-of-the-art Satellite Oceanography Laboratory. Using remote sensing technology, Bulusu and his research team are exploring oceanic and atmospheric dynamics, ...

The reduction in strength has been by about 15 percent, David Smeed, a scientist who studies the strength of the circulation at the U.K.'s National Oceanography Center in Southampton, told The Washington Post this year. But what's behind changes this region is less clear, with some scientists saying that ...

Excess carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels interferes with the health of phytoplankton, which form the base of marine food webs, according to scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute, whose findings ...

Stubbins, associate professor of marine and environmental sciences, joined Northeastern's faculty in January after seven years at the University of Georgia's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. He now holds joint appointments with the College of Science and College of Engineering, and last year was ...

An article published March 13, 2018 in Limnology and Oceanography Letters, a publication of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, details for the first time how high desert winds disperse small invertebrates and how they colonize hydrologically disconnected basins throughout ...

Tal Ezer had an idea about what might be contributing to the problem, and the Old Dominion University oceanography professor knew where to look – an obscure website that compiles a daily average of water pouring through a strait between Florida and the Bahamas. What it showed was a dramatic ...

Choy has been at MBARI for three and a half years now and this fall she will move on to become an assistant professor to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. She plans to further her research on plastics in the ocean, looking closely at the small fish, squid and crustaceans at the base ...

A team led by scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has demonstrated that the excess carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels interferes with the health of phytoplankton ...

"We could be making the next epochal advancement in oceanography," says Craig McLean, NOAA's assistant administrator for oceanic and atmospheric research and acting chief scientist. Within the next decade, hundreds or even thousands of solar- and wind-powered drones could roam the world's ...

Edward DeLong and David Karl, oceanography professors in the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) have been studying these microbes for decades. For this project, they and their teams are collaborating with engineers from MBARI to test new ways of adaptively ...

“We could be making the next epochal advancement in oceanography,” says Craig McLean, NOAA's assistant administrator for oceanic and atmospheric research and acting chief scientist. Within the next decade, hundreds or even thousands of solar- and wind-powered drones could roam the world's ...

The follow up to 2015's 'More Stately Mansions', 'Oceanography' is out today via Superball Music. It coincides with a tour that kicked off a few days ago at Oporto in Leeds, and includes a night at London's Islington Academy 2. Speaking about the dates, Barnes says: “I'm fully blown kid-in-sweetshop excited ...

Recordings of fish sounds made off La Jolla Shores by Ana Širović, an oceanographer at the Marine Bioacoustics Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. While a two-year-old can probably tell you what sound a dog or a cat makes, she might be stumped if you ask, what sound does a fish make?

The CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography today said it has discovered "active cold seeps" in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin which are associated with shallow methane hydrates. The scientists on board NIO's exploration vessel 'Sindhu Sadhana' earlier this week discovered these seeps in the ...

James McCarthy, a professor of biological oceanography and the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, whose pioneering work on marine nutrient cycles has led to greater understanding of how human activity is influencing climate, has been ...

Student-Scientists Get to Use Florida Marine Research Vessel. About 40 Florida Gulf Coast University students got hands-on experience in offshore marine research, thanks to a collaboration between FGCU and the Florida Institute of Oceanography. Feb. 24, 2018, at 3:01 a.m.. Student-Scientists Get to Use Florida Marine ...

With 2015's More Stately Mansions, electronic singer-songwriter Charlie Barnes went full band in an attempt to realise the towering ambition left to him by his principal influences, bands like Radiohead and Oceansize. However, stepping away from the oddball electronic prog pop of his debut full-length ...

Chinese Oceanography Echoes the Contest for Undersea Dominance Against the US. The military ... But without mastery of the western Pacific's oceanography, neither side can assert dominance over the undersea domain — granting freedom of action to its submarines, and denying it to adversaries.

... a scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle who will present the research Monday at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, co-sponsored by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, The Oceanography Society and the American Geophysical Union. "They are finely attuned ...

The FAST Eddy is one of an array of technological tools and devices used by Woods Hole Group to collecting, processing, and transmitting ocean current data to corporations whose business hinges on that information. [Photo courtesy Woods Hole Group]. Hide caption. This graphic created by Wood Hole ...