SONG: “Something’s Knocking on the Door”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “China’s Bold Plan Unveiled: A Deep-Sea Space Station 6560 Feet… Read the rest “SONG: Something’s Knocking on the Door”
This image is actually much older than 1934; it’s just that that is when William Beebe published it (courtesy of the New York Public Library) in his book Half Mile Down, which is both… Read the rest “Science Art: The “Rotterdam Ship” was one of the earliest submarines…, 1934”
Someone in China hasn’t watched Kristen Stewart in UNDERWATER… or so Sustainability Times leads me to believe. They’re reporting (rather breathlessly) on a “deep-sea… Read the rest “China’s undersea station.”
Reuters reports from Senegal on a new anti-erosion project that uses dirt-cheap, pollution-free materials to defend an island from Atlantic swells that threaten to wash the land away… Read the rest “Saving the beach with some stick-and-palm-frond engineering.”
How could it stay hidden? Science magazine celebrates the first big reef discovery in 120 years… and it really is big:
… Read the rest “We just discovered a reef taller than a skyscraper.”At 500 meters tall, the reef surpasses the height of the Empire
The Telegraph reports on the internet’s favorite ocean-going vessel, the submersible Boaty McBoatface, and the plucky little robot sub has just been doing some potentially world-saving… Read the rest “Boaty McBoatface’s Big Breakthrough”
The Age of Exploration included at least a little bit of schoolwork. Here are navigation students learning the ways of current and coastline. Their teacher, Petrus Plancius… Read the rest “Science Art: favorite image Petrus Plancius Instructing Students in the Science of Navigation, early 17th century”
Science News has a novel way to map out potential climate change – by tracking where new viruses are showing up in the ocean:
… Read the rest “There are a lot of viruses in the Arctic ice – and they can show us where carbon is sinking.”Water samples taken during a three-year expedition around
SONG: “One of Our Submarines” (penitential cover)
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SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the June song. … Read the rest “SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)”
The Guardian looks at one of the less discussed elements of climate change – with a once-dependable ocean current slowing, slowing, slowing down in a way that could change more than… Read the rest “The Gulf Stream is weaker than it’s been for 1,600 years.”
This is the science vessel Albatross, a steamship custom-built for the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, what’s now the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. “The… Read the rest “Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.”
This is a map of something invisible – ocean currents – made indirectly – by releasing messages in bottles and seeing where they land, based on who sent… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 172 – Results of Dr. Fulton’s Drift-Bottle Experiments in the North Sea, 1912.”
The Atlantic (the magazine, not the ocean) just located a giant reef no one knew existed near the mouth of the Amazon River:
… Read the rest “Well, *anyone* could misplace a 600-mile barrier reef! Right?”A team of Brazilian and American scientists have discovered a new
Nature surveys the plastic in the seas, expects to see things like detergent bottles and Barbies breaking up into tiny “microplastic” particles, and doesn’t. So the… Read the rest “Once in the ocean, where does the plastic *go*?”
Nature paints a more vivid picture of climate change – and the related changes in ocean currents – by retracing the paths of prehistoric icebergs in the years when the oceans… Read the rest “When icebergs floated off Key West…”
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