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We just discovered a reef taller than a skyscraper.

14 November 2020 grant 0

How could it stay hidden? Science magazine celebrates the first big reef discovery in 120 years… and it really is big: At 500 meters tall, […]

Boaty McBoatface’s Big Breakthrough

19 June 2019 grant 0

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 […]

Scientific Illustration of an Early Modern or Late Renaissance class for exploration; how sailors got where they were going.

Science Art: favorite image Petrus Plancius Instructing Students in the Science of Navigation, early 17th century

16 June 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen The Age of Exploration included at least a little bit of schoolwork. Here are navigation students learning the ways of current and […]

There are a lot of viruses in the Arctic ice – and they can show us where carbon is sinking.

1 May 2019 grant 0

Science News has a novel way to map out potential climate change – by tracking where new viruses are showing up in the ocean: Water […]

SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)

16 July 2018 grant 0

SONG: “One of Our Submarines” [Download] (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the […]

The Gulf Stream is weaker than it’s been for 1,600 years.

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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 […]

Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.

13 February 2017 grant 0

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 […]

Science Art: Fig 172 – Results of Dr. Fulton’s Drift-Bottle Experiments in the North Sea, 1912.

29 January 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen This is a map of something invisible – ocean currents – made indirectly – by releasing messages in bottles and seeing where […]

Well, *anyone* could misplace a 600-mile barrier reef! Right?

22 April 2016 grant 0

The Atlantic (the magazine, not the ocean) just located a giant reef no one knew existed near the mouth of the Amazon River: A team […]

Once in the ocean, where does the plastic *go*?

16 December 2014 grant 0

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 […]

When icebergs floated off Key West…

14 October 2014 grant 0

Nature paints a more vivid picture of climate change – and the related changes in ocean currents – by retracing the paths of prehistoric icebergs […]

Oceans are hiding global warming… for now.

22 August 2014 grant 0

The Atlantic, the Pacific… are sinks. Heat sinks. So says Scientific American, explaining that temperatures haven’t risen as sharply as they could have (YET) because […]

Fish are saving the planet.

9 June 2014 grant 0

Aquaman may have had more going for him than he gets credit for. Scientific American reveals the amazing power fish have to reverse global warming: […]

One of our submarines is missing.

13 May 2014 grant 0

Actually, gone. Imploded. BBC has more on the tragic end of the deep-sea submersible Nereus: The robotic vehicle Nereus went missing while exploring one of […]

Wanna help explore the ocean? You can.

9 July 2013 grant 0

Nature reports on a new initiative to crowdsource oceanography: Just about the first action involved in any experiment at sea is the casting overboard of […]

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