Oceanography News

The depths of the sea and the farthest reaches of outer space have something in common: They're both extreme environments.

On March 6, Oregon became the tenth state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards.

One hundred two years ago this April, one of the world's most famous disasters occurred -- the sinking of the mighty RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage across the north Atlantic Ocean from Southampton, Britain to New York City.

Under normal conditions, a commercial plane's transponder sends out information that allows radar stations to determine its precise location, altitude and speed.

Bob Ballard talks on camera in the mission control room during the first live Immersion Learning webcast from the new Inner Space Center located on the University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay campus on Dec. 3, 2009.

Nothing dies of old age in the ocean. Everything gets eaten and all that remains of anything is waste.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the National Center for Environmental Prediction have entered into a formal agreement that will let the public have access to Navy-developed global ocean forecast model technology.

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sounded a strong warning about rising seas Monday, saying that ocean levels around the world are projected to increase by 12 inches or more should a bunch of people go swimming at the same time.

Very low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster likely will reach ocean waters along the U.S. West Coast next month, scientists are reporting.

FIND out more about the ocean at a free family fun day. The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton is hosting an Ocean and Earth Day next Saturday from 10.30am.

Hawaii Community College students were collecting water and plankton samples when they spotted the whale four miles off the Kona coast.

Very low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster likely will reach ocean waters along the U.S. West Coast next month, scientists are reporting.

Researchers and educators from the University of Georgia's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and Marine Extension are creating an education program focused on autonomous underwater vehicles, also known as underwater robots.

The Danube is so polluted that there are now more plastic particles than fish larvae in the water according to new research.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that uses existing technology to allow researchers and natural resource managers to collect significantly more information on water quality to better inform policy decisions.

The new atlas, which shows the distribution of important trace metals and other substances, is the first product of GEOTRACES, a $300 million international effort.

Bradwell Institute sophomore Lily Shelor demonstrates throwing a pot during the school's freshmen fair on Tuesday.

The United States Navy is drawing up a plan to operate in what is rapidly becoming a seasonally-open Arctic Ocean, and thus a new theater of operations.

The exhibits are presented as a kind of open house for the museum, "a chance to show people just how many exciting things are happening and that we're not a static institution, but vibrant and dynamic," said Peter Rerig, business manager of the museum and its parent organization, the Monterey History and Art Association.

When: Friday, March 7; 6:30-7:15 p.m. children's talk, 7:30-8:30 p.m. community talk It may seem out of place for a world-renowned oceanographic department to be part of a research institute situated in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, hundreds of miles from the ocean, but studying the world's major bodies of water is more than just mapping ... (more)