Oceanography News

Two top US Antarctic scientists warn New Zealand is "not ready" for the worst as ice shelves and sea ice in Antarctica retreat and the climate changes.

Dr. Jeff Severinghaus, a professor of geosciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, displays an ice core with trapped bubbles of gases he studies to track changes in ancient climate at Scripps on Friday in San Diego, California.

An expert on underwater searches says he is sure that search teams will succeed in finding a Malaysian jetliner that has been missing since March 8, and is believed to be at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

The Skidompha Public Library's Chats with Champions Committee is pleased to announce marine scientist Dr. Rhian Waller will be the featured speaker at 10 a.m. on April 24. She will be speaking and showing slides of her work on deep sea corals and how they are being affected by environmental challenges.

Dr. Bill Hogarth, Director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography , will lead a seminar Tuesday at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Arts Center in Ocean Springs.

The Indonesian Institute of Sciences says 30.4 per cent of Indonesia's coral reefs are damaged and will have an impact on public welfare, Indonesian news agency ANTARA reported.

A monthlong underwater research mission led by the grandson of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau will begin on June 1. The so-called aquanauts will spend 31 days living and working in an underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida.

Beaulieu, J., R. Smolenski, C. Nietch, A. Townsend-Small, M. Elovitz, AND J. Schubauer-Berigan.

The Block Island Maritime Institute seeks a person to direct educational programs in maritime studies, primarily focused on children and young adults, who visit, vacation, or live on Block Island.

Good luck finding anything with that. Bluefin-21 is craned over the side of Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 on April 14, 2014.

The world's largest volcano - all 120,000 square miles of it - is now officially named for Texas A&M University and is called Tamu Plateau, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names has announced.

The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, along with Dr. D. Jay and Beverly Grimes, will be hosting a free seminar by Dr. Bill Hogarth, director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center for Arts and Education.

A man who drove drunk and struck a marine biologist in a crosswalk in Del Mar, then fled the scene, pleaded guilty Wednesday gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and a hit-and-run allegation.

S ustainable Edmonds is hosting a presentation, "Climate Change in Edmonds: Reviewing our 2010 Edmonds Climate Action Plan Four Years Later" on Wednesday, April 30, from 6-9 p.m. at the Edmonds Senior Center, 220 Railroad Ave. Here's the background: In February 2010, the Edmonds Citizens Committee on the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement ... (more)

A region of the Greenland ice sheet that had been thought to be stable is undergoing what glaciologists call "dynamic thinning".

An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about.

Oceanographers observed changes in the chemistry of surface water in the Bay of Bengal over three surveys taken in 1994 , 2002 , and 2006 .

Hopes that Malaysia's missing jet might soon be found are yielding to the sobering realisation of the immense challenge of searching an uncharted seafloor at depths that push deep-sea technology to its limits.

Rear Adm. Brian Brown, a Slidell resident, has been nominated to receive his second start, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.

Since March 8 when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished with 239 people on board, investigators have been looking desperately for clues ranging from surface debris to transmissions which were thought to come from one or both of the black boxes on the international passenger flight.