Oceanography News

Researchers just completed a A five-week expedition to map and sample a giant underwater canyon off the northwest coast of Morocco.

Ocean researchers and politicians who had hoped to see restrictions imposed on fishing in the sensitive ecosystems of the deep ocean were left disappointed last week after the European Parliament voted against tougher controls.

Blue whales are the species being studied by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and other groups trying to better the effects of sound on marine mammals.

In a word, no - though it isn't a good idea to eat the bottom fish feeding within a few kilometers of the Daiichi harbor.

University of Illinois Board Chair Chris Kennedy is sounding an alarm, worried a bid by the school and its partners for a $70 million federal Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute grant may be influenced by a senator's clout - and end up in Huntsville, Ala.

Dr. Jon Grant studies environmentally optimal salmon farming practices at the Aquatron tank at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

The Long Island Sound Study announces that the most comprehensive review and synthesis of scientific research of the Long Island Sound in 35 years is now available as a book published by Springer.

On one full moon night, Rann of Kutch wears a whitish look with salt reflecting the light of the moon.

Arctic fjords are poor places, low in marine life and muddied by glacial meltwater.

We've known for a while that the ocean is rapidly becoming too acidic for some forms of marine life to survive.

A SOUTHAMPTON student has scooped a national award based on her own research voyage whilst based at the National Oceanography Centre .

A Babylon Junior-Senior High Schooler is raising money to help pay his way to represent our area as a student ambassador next summer in the Pacific island of Fiji, New Zealand and Australia.

Researchers from the University of Southampton and the Australian National University report that sea-level rise since the industrial revolution has been fast by natural standards and - at current rates - may reach 80cm above the modern level by 2100 and 2.5 metres by 2200.

Don't let his pretty face fool you, Gary Finch has been in Okaloosa County this week on deadly serious business.

March 11 2011 was a tragic day for Japan and the world. The earthquake in Tohoku, Japan caused a tsunami, and the resulting tsunami-induced inundation has placed Japan into crisis.

Image Caption: Flooding across Highway 78, San Diego County, Calif. The NASA/Scripps Institution of Oceanography-developed GPS natural hazards warning system was first used by NOAA in July 2013, in San Diego and Oxnard, Calif., to forecast a summer monsoon and issue accurate flash flood warnings.

Their findings suggest that these landslides result in smaller tsunami waves than previously thought by some authors, because of the processes involved.

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Octavio Aburto is a Mexican photographer and marine biologist, based at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, and is a fellow with The International League of Conservation Photographers .

China is accelerating its efforts to tap vast metal deposits on the ocean floor, with manned submersible Jiaolong scheduled to dive in the country's two contract areas in the northwest Pacific and the southwest Indian Ocean next year.