Oceanography News

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.

The U.S. Navy and search coordinators say a built-in safety feature aborted what was supposed to have been a 16-hour mission to create a sonar map of the ocean floor after only six hours.

Come to find out Manta rays leap clear of the water. Oceanographers don't know why they do this.

Unique deepwater shellfish project will provide a research and innovation platform for OriginOil's water cleanup and algae harvesting technology )--OriginOil Inc. , developer of Electro Water Separationa , the high-speed, chemical-free process to clean up large quantities of water, today announced that it recently agreed to a collaborative exchange ... (more)

Oceanographers have made the first detailed measurements of fast-flowing water and intense mixing in a submarine canyon just off the Washington coast.

Image Caption: Princeton University graduate student Andrew Babbin prepares a seawater collection device known as a rosette.

A manta ray and a green sea turtle feed in the midst of plastic bags, milk jugs, and other debris floating off one of Oahu's highest-rated beaches.

Four pings and an oil slick. That's what the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has yielded so far.

Katherine Ball, 17, is a senior at Lake Stevens High School and a Running Start student in Everett Community College's Ocean Research College Academy.

Greenland - the largest terrestrial mass of ice in the northern hemisphere - may be melting a little faster than anyone had guessed.

Google Earth Mystery Object? - Hardly! What is it that you can see in this snapshot of Google Earth in the vicinity of Amsterdam Island? If you think it's a special antenna for transmitting earthquake waves in the general direction of people that a Secret Government AgencyTM hates, or if you just know that it's a secret underwater base you are ... (more)

Is it time for underwater search vehicles to start scanning the ocean floor in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Some analysts say it is, because it's been days since anyone has picked up a possible signal from the missing aircraft's data recorders.

"It seems that the more 'advanced' a society becomes, the shorter its memory," suggests geologic oceanographer Chris Goldfinger late in Bonnie Henderson's riveting "The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast."

With a dearth of new pings and the batteries driving the two black box signal beacons inevitably fading, the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing While recent attention has been on possible ping detections from the aircraft's two black boxes, Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales, told Forbes.com that's ... (more)