Oceanography News

Image Caption: 'Hoff' Yeti crabs around vents on the East Scotia Ridge in the Southern Ocean photographed by the ROV ISIS.

The city of Waveland benefited from the hands of 20 volunteers, all members of the Naval Oceanography and Meteorology Office at Stennis Space Center.

Army football fans won't have to wait until fall to see if they can break their long dry spell in... The Navy says its new weather-forecasting model will help sailors steer their ships away from heavy seas and storms thanks to more reliable predictions.

The next time you take your boat for a spin in the Halifax harbour, or jump off the dock of a nearby lake, be sure to check underneath for "unwanted visitors," says a biologist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

After discussing it for months and months, tomorrow my 16yo daughter A- and I are flying out to San Jose, CA and driving down the famed Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Cruz to San Diego, visiting colleges along the way.

A recent study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center showed sea surface temperatures in the northeast shelf -- which ranges from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras, N.C. -- for 2012 were the highest in 150 years.

Four of the eight new NASA astronaut candidates announced Monday are women, representing the highest percentage of female trainees chosen for any class in history.

It's in the genes! Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau , will embark on a month-long research mission on the ocean floor, living and working in an underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida.

NASA has announced its next round of astronauts , eight people who may one day fly to Mars or an asteroid, as the agency begins to enter its next stage of manned missions.

A pair of Stoneham residents recently received their undergraduate degrees during the University of Rhode Island's 127th Commencement, according to a press statement.

Jessica Meir of Caribou, Maine, is one of eight new astronauts selected by NASA and announced Monday.

Research associate Mark Graham holds test tubes containing algae culture strains in the lab at the University of Alberta on Monday.

Federal agents Friday seized a $30,000 boat owned by famed oceanographer Jean-Michel Cousteau as part of a Department of Justice action for transgressions during the filming of spectacular orca attacks on Monterey Bay nine years ago.

The uppermost reaches of the ocean could be rapidly scanned in groundbreaking high detail using acoustic techniques, researchers say.

Six exceptional individuals were honored last night at the National Geographic Society's 125th Anniversary Gala celebration for their efforts to lead exploration, advance scientific understanding, conserve natural resources and expand knowledge of the world.

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.

The Draupner wave , a single giant wave measured on New Year's Day 1995, finally confirmed the existence of freak waves, which had previously been considered near-mythical Rogue waves are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that occur far out in sea, and are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners .

When Cristopher Claeys was 4, his mother, Annie Starwich-Claeys, took a college anatomy class and he read the textbooks she brought home.

It was late afternoon Thursday and Jim Limberakis, 60, was working at his Falmouth Harbor waterfront restaurant, The Clam Shack.

But she's not on an ice sheet in Antarctica or a glacier in Alaska. Instead, she's inside the National Building Museum enjoying a glass of wine, which she says is "excellent."