Oceanography News

Five hundred miles southeast of Hawai'i, in international waters far out of sight of any land, there are vast mineral resources 5,000 meters below the sea.

I travel everywhere with these bags - a hodgepodge of books I've read and ones I'm working my way through.

A new study has revealed anxious fish as the surprising outcome from increases of carbon dioxide uptake in the oceans.

The burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas has led to dramatically increasing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere causing climate change and ocean acidification.

Carbon dioxide pumped into the air since the Industrial Revolution appears to have changed the way the coastal ocean functions, according to a new analysis published this week in Nature .

For the past three decades, as the climate has warmed, the massive plates of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean have shrunk: In 2007, scientists observed nearly 50 percent less summer ice than had been seen in 1980.

Bumphead parrotfish, seen here on Wake Atoll in the Central Pacific Ocean, are the largest coral reef plant eaters.

Deep inside the dramatic subpolar fjords of Antarctica, researchers from the University of Hawai'i at MA noa have discovered an unexpected abundance and diversity at the seafloor.

Most people wouldn't expect to find an oceanographer in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, but ASU professor Susanne Neuer was featured on Cox 7 Arizona's "STEM Journals" to discuss how studying Arizona rivers can help understand oceans.

Concern that a radioactive plume is headed for the West Coast from the crippled Japanese Fukushima nuclear plant has prompted Marin County officials to monitor the situation.

The details surrounding the death of Paul Walker are altogether shocking. Initially, a media conglomerate released a hoax article alluding to Paul Walker's death.

The oceans belong to everyone and no one at the same time. I've been thinking about that idea as I receive dispatches from Warsaw, Poland, this year's site of the annual international attempt to come up with climate policy.

The standard issue tool for the oceanographer at sea is the Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth instrument .

Scientists have, for the first time, demonstrated that climate models are able to simulate past abrupt changes in the Earth's climate- giving more confidence in predictions of future global climate change.

Oceanography is the branch of Earth Science that studies the oceans and marine life.

Delta is a 15-month-old loggerhead sea turtle that has found its home at the Tybee Island Marine Science Center for the past year.

J. Phys. Oceanogr. In Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 43, No. 2. , pp. 366-381, doi:10.1175/jpo-d-12-047.1 Abstract In this paper the authors study the interactions of additive noise and nonlinear dynamics in a quasigeostrophic model of the double-gyre wind-driven ocean circulation.

The California Coastal Commission is reviewing plans by University of California, San Diego for a new scenic walkway and vista point on the Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus in La Jolla.

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have developed a method for greatly enhancing biofuel production in tiny marine algae.

Local lawmakers who secured $15 million in the last legislative session for renovations at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus in Groton are now focusing on improving the math, science and engineering facilities there.