Oceanography News

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Benedict Carey reports at the NYT that the uncertainties surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's disappearance are enormous, but naval strategists have been unraveling lost-at-sea mysteries as far back as the U-boat battles of World War II , and perhaps most dramatically in 1968, when an intelligence team found the ... (more)

William Shill, a cadet at Cal Maritime Academy and a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers watches an underwater remote operated vehicle created by students at Benicia High School with help from CMA students as it navigates into a structure during a competition.

Today is the start of the Southampton University annual Science and Engineering events.

It's an effort to monitor any effects of climate change on the environment and the life that exists there.

By the end of the 21st century, some parts of the world can expect as many as 30 more days a year without precipitation, according to a new study by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researchers.

Colbath Warner helps unload the morning's catch at Little River Lobster Co. in Cutler as his stepbrother Jordan Drouin stands on board their boat, Young Guns.

The 110th Explorers Club Annual Dinner will be held Saturday at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.

Researchers are combining aerial views with underwater autonomous vehicles to get an unprecedented look at undersea environments in real time.

The Ross Sea, a major, biologically productive Antarctic ecosystem, "clearly will be extensively modified by future climate change" in the coming decades as rising temperatures and changing wind patterns create longer periods of ice-free open water, affecting the life cycles of both predators and prey, according to a paper published by researchers ... (more)

London, UK: Oceana's Junior Council launched in London Wednesday night. Hosted by Benjamin Goldsmith and Stephanie Bilet , the evening was attended by a select group of high profile figures from London's fashion, music, finance, culinary and art world.

March is not just for whales on the central Oregon coast it's actually for the birds as well.

Officials at the US Defense Department have requested extra funding for a new fleet of submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles and surveillance drones, according to newly unveiled budget documents.

Five days after disappearing from radar, no debris field has been found from a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner that's presumed to have crashed on a flight to Beijing.

Malaysia's transport minister says it's possible the plane could have flown for several hours after its last contact with the ground.

The man who found the Titanic says the only way to find out what happened to flight MH370 is to recover the black box recorders.

The Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition, organized by the Underwater Photography Guide, announces its 2013 winners.

Global warming's crystal ball is clearing as climate models improve, and scientists now predict that some regions will see a month's less rain and snow by 2100.

Progress in Oceanography , Vol. 91, No. 2. , pp. 167-216, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2011.01.002 Sixteen years of sea-surface height fields constructed by merging the measurements from two simultaneously operating altimeters are analyzed to investigate mesoscale variability in the global ocean.

A lecture. "Acts of Seeing: Art, Vision & Realist Theatre," with Amy Holzapfel, associate professor of theatre, will be presented today as part of Williams College's annual Faculty Lecture Series, which aims to present big ideas beyond disciplinary boundaries.

Ralph Fiennes as Gustave H. and Tony Revolori as Zero in Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel."