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This Digital Map of the Seafloor Can Help Scientists Predict Environmental Change
We know less about the deep ocean than we do about the surface of Mars. But if we want to really understand how humans are impacting the Earth, we need to start looking down deep into the muck. That’s why scientists created the first digital map of the seafloor’s geologic composition.
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'Flying spaghetti monster' caught on video off the Angolan coast - New Scientist
Footage of an unusual marine animal covered in tentacles allowed oceanographers to identify it as a siphonophore
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10 Deadliest Shipwrecks in History
RMS Titanic may be the most notorious shipwreck on record, but it is by no means the worst.
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The Misunderstood Shark
A spate of shark attacks this summer has left beachgoers especially fearful, but there’s much more to the creatures than their bite.
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All Signs Indicate a New Monster El Niño Is Coming
Ocean conditions in the Pacific Ocean are increasingly suggestive of a potent El Niño event later this year. While that might seem like good news to the water-starved regions of the United States, the resulting torrential rains could be exceptionally hazardous.
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Potential Underwater Europa Rover Being Groomed by NASA - Aug 02 2015 08:00 AM - Breaking News - Envirotech Online
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Could corals save themselves?
The hidden beauty of corals is being showcased to bring attention to a possible saviour of global reefs. By Zoe Gough.
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Beautiful Maps Show the World's Oceans in Motion
These maps from NASA show ocean currents around the world.
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52 Blue
At a remote military base in the Pacific Northwest, Navy sonar technicians hear a confounding sound. It is the voice of a whale, but one that sings at a frequency—52 hertz—never before heard by scientists, and inaudible to other members of its species. The whale seems to be alone in the Pacific Ocean, unable to communicate with its kind... By Leslie Jameson. (August, 2014)
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Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning
In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels. The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors... By Eric Holthaus.
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Alien Animals and Tortured Seascapes off the Galápagos
“Worms” that aren't actual worms, super octopus moms, and collapsed lava formations populate the seafloor surrounding the Galápagos. By Jane J. Lee.
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The longest floating structure in history is about to hit the ocean. It might fix a big problem.
It's called The Ocean Cleanup, and it's a 1.2-mile-long system designed to collect and remove plastic from the ocean. For two years, it will hang out in the ocean, hopefully to begin undoing what we've done for decades: polluted the heck out of the water with plastic trash.
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How plankton help control clouds over the world’s most remote oceans
These tiny organisms play a big role in regulating the Earth’s climate. By Daniel Grosvenor.
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Mysterious Balls of Goo Are Rolling Onto American Beaches
These thumbnail-size animals may look like jellyfish stripped of their tentacles, but they're actually a lot weirder than that.
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What Oysters Reveal About Sea Change
Mark Bittman braves the elements off the coast of California and learns how researchers are helping local and regional seafood producers monitor the effects of ocean acidification.
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The oceans are warming faster than climate models predicted
As I have said many times on this blog, if you want to know how much “global warming” is happening, you really have to be able to measure “ocean warming”. That is because more than 90% of the excess energy coming to the Earth from greenhouse gases goes into the ocean waters. My colleagues and I have a new publication, which better characterizes this heating and also compares climate model predictions with actual measurements. It turns out models have under-predicted ocean warming...
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The Bioluminescence Web Page
Bioluminescence-related information, and current research on luminescence. Mainly marine related including jellyfish.
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Sea Warming Leads to Ban on Fishing in the Arctic
The United States and four other nations that border the Arctic Ocean pledged on Thursday to prohibit commercial fishing in the international waters of the Arctic until more scientific research could be done on how warming seas and melting ice are affecting fish stocks.
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Researchers use Arctic sea floor mapping to piece together earth’s history
Researchers from MacEwan University will use Arctic sea floor mapping research to understand the past, and present a key to the future. “Its about the closest thing we can get to a time machine,” says Mark Furze, of the research that he and Anna Piénkowski, faculty members in the department of Physical Sciences, will be doing over the next three years.
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Seafloor Hot Springs Significant Source of Iron in Earth's Oceans
"This proves that hydrothermal activity at the mid-ocean ridges impacts global ocean chemistry of important trace metals," said lead author Joseph Resing, a senior research scientist at the University of Washington's Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, a partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "On longer timescales, it also impacts the productivity of the oceans."
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