Oceanography News

Very low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster likely will reach ocean waters along the U.S. West Coast next month, scientists are reporting.

Researchers and educators from the University of Georgia's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and Marine Extension are creating an education program focused on autonomous underwater vehicles, also known as underwater robots.

The Danube is so polluted that there are now more plastic particles than fish larvae in the water according to new research.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that uses existing technology to allow researchers and natural resource managers to collect significantly more information on water quality to better inform policy decisions.

The new atlas, which shows the distribution of important trace metals and other substances, is the first product of GEOTRACES, a $300 million international effort.

Bradwell Institute sophomore Lily Shelor demonstrates throwing a pot during the school's freshmen fair on Tuesday.

The United States Navy is drawing up a plan to operate in what is rapidly becoming a seasonally-open Arctic Ocean, and thus a new theater of operations.

The exhibits are presented as a kind of open house for the museum, "a chance to show people just how many exciting things are happening and that we're not a static institution, but vibrant and dynamic," said Peter Rerig, business manager of the museum and its parent organization, the Monterey History and Art Association.

When: Friday, March 7; 6:30-7:15 p.m. children's talk, 7:30-8:30 p.m. community talk It may seem out of place for a world-renowned oceanographic department to be part of a research institute situated in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, hundreds of miles from the ocean, but studying the world's major bodies of water is more than just mapping ... (more)

Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space and the new administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, gestures as she speaks in Norman, Oklahoma, on December 15, 2011.

Some of director Wes Anderson's Hollywood collaborators are becoming just as essential to the filmmaker's cosmos as saturated color palettes and Futura font are to his aesthetic.

Despite the recent wet weather, Ventura and California as a whole are still facing major water woes.

Global warming could have dramatic consequences for ocean circulation in the Antarctic, according to new research in Nature Climate Change.

Coral reefs recovered far quicker when scientists worked directly with leaders of local communities - rather than national governments - on changing the damaging land-use practices that pollute coastal waters, said Robert Richmond, a professor of marine biology at the University of Hawaii, United States.

In Madrid a couple of years ago, I was interviewed for Spanish newspapers. When I later ran the text through Google Translate, I got a shock: I was referred to repeatedly as "he".

A new diving suit will allow oceanographers to explore the underwater world up to four times deeper than today's most advanced compressed air gear.

The "Narragansett Rune Stone", a seven-foot long sandstone bearing mysterious symbols that some believe to be Runic characters, currently lies dormant at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography following revelations that the necessary tests that would determine the inscription's origins would require damaging the stone.

Felicia Whitmore, a member of the Washington Conservations Corps, spreads mulch at Raab's Lagoon, one of several county-sponsored conservation projects to improve the health of Quartermaster Harbor.

Full of people in transit, university campuses are often places of comings and goings - and, increasingly, visitors from around the world.

"Development of an advanced global ocean prediction system has been a long-term Navy interest," said Dr. Gregg Jacobs, head, NRL Ocean Dynamics and Prediction Branch.