We just discovered a reef taller than a skyscraper.
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, […]
oceanography
Boaty McBoatface’s Big Breakthrough
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 […]
Science Art: favorite image Petrus Plancius Instructing Students in the Science of Navigation, early 17th century
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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?
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*?
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]