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Google Earth Map Mashup of Rutgers "Scarlet Knight" Glider Crossing

Rutgers Glider Successfully Crosses Atlantic

The “Scarlet Knight,” a Rutgers-Slocum autonomous underwater glider, has successfully completed its crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.

Nov 19, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Autonomous Underwater Explorers - Scripps Institution of Oceanography

New Robots Will Help Fill in Gaps and Enhance Ocean Knowledge

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been awarded a total of nearly $2.5 million to develop a new breed of ocean-probing instruments and design and develop the systems necessary to control the movement of those autonomous underwater explorers (AUEs). These “Miniature Robotic Ocean Explorers” are intended to plug gaps of knowledge about key ocean processes and trace fine details of fundamental oceanographic mechanisms that are vital to tiny marine inhabitants.

Nov 19, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Plastic confetti alongside baby blue velellas in the North Pacific Gyre - Credit: Karin Malmstrom/Marine Photobank

Turning the North Pacific Gyre Plastic into Useful Materials

Mary Crowley, co-funder of Project Kasei and one of the members of the team that studies the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and sailed along the SEAPLEX expedition – see our report about the expedition – last August, is dreaming of converting the little pieces of plastic, that are being ingested by marine life, into fuel or building materials while cleaning the ocean.

Nov 02, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Great white shark - Credit: Mila Zinkova

Australian Shark Control Program: Nets to Stay in Place

The Queensland Government remains committed to the shark control program despite calls for an end to the shark nets that protect Queensland beaches and indiscriminately catches marine life.

Fisheries Minister Tim Mulherin said a recent incident re-enforced that there are still dangerous sharks off the Queensland coast and still a need for the shark control program.

Oct 29, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Humpback whales in the singing position - NOAA's Sanctuaries Collection - Photographer: Dr. Louis M. Herman

New Discoveries in Humpback Whale Communication

Studying humpbacks with new methods Cholewiak, a researcher with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, has uncovered the first known instances of what looks like whales responding musically to each other’s songs.

Oct 27, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Weddell seal at a breathing hole - NOAA's Ark - Photographer: Giuseppe Zibordi - Credit: Michael Van Woert, NOAA NESDES/ORA

Expedition to the End of the World Studies Weddell Seals

For the first time a team of nine researchers from UC Santa Cruz, Texas A&M University, and University of Texas started a research expedition to the Antarctic in winter. Their intention is to study the Weddell seals, the only mammal to live in McMurdo Sound during the brutal winter month and discover how they survive beneath the sea ice.

Oct 14, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Dr. Michel Boufadel checking out the blowout well upon removal after a successful test was conducted - © Temple University

Field Reports: Bilal Khan from Temple University Study on Exxon Valdez Oil Pollution (4)

Field Reports about the latest study on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill are the unvarnished, unedited journal entries of marine researchers in the field. They are intended to give readers a unique, inside look at the day-to-day nature of field work, an essential part of all marine science.

Sep 21, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Derelict fishing gear, removal is essential for reducing risks to marine life - NOAA/NMFS

Saving Marine Life: Coral Reefs Cleanup in Northwest Hawaii

The Oscar Elton Sette, one of NOAA’s research vessels is currently at the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument on its first of two planned expeditions this year outlined to remove deserted fishing gear to save marine life, especially in coral reef ecosystems of the North West Hawaiian Islands (NWHI).

Sep 16, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Amundsen Sea at 3am on a December day - Credit: Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences

Combined Swedish-U.S. Expertise to Study the Amundsen Sea

A team of international scientists will work together on a new study of the open water and ice-covered regions of the Amundsen Sea to understand the physical, chemical, and biological interactions that make this region the most biologically productive of any waters adjacent to the Antarctic continent and how the system might change in the face of future increases in regional temperature and in the rate of Antarctic glacier melting.

Sep 15, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Fossilized seahorse specimen - Courtesy of Jules Zalohar

Hippocampus: Some Help for Imperiled Seahorses

Seahorse Ways Co. runs a culturing farm of seahorses in Minami-Kyshu, Japan hoping to help reverse the decline of the species.

The oldest fossils date back 13 million years to the Middle Miocene (found in the Tunjice Hills in Slovenia) and are of two pipefish-like species.

Sep 14, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
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