All Entries in the "Physical Oceanography" Category
NASA’s Flights Over Antarctic Continent Bridge Satellite Gap
NASA is currently conducting Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year campaign of annual flights to each of Earth’s polar regions designed to help scientists bridge the gap between NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) — which is operating the last of its three lasers — and ICESat-II, scheduled to launch in 2014 by providing the needed data collected by researchers on board the DC-8, a 157-foot-long airborne laboratory and the largest aircraft in NASA’s airborne science fleet that accommodates many instruments.
New Climate Phenomenon May Decrease El Niño’s Benefits
El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons among other benefits may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific due to global warming, according to an article in the September 24 issue of the journal Nature.
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.
Expedition to the “Great Ocean Garbage Patch”
Expedition to learn about the size of the “garbage patch” and the threats it poses to marine life and the gyre’s biological environment back.
On August 2, 2009 researchers left on the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX) on board the research vessel (R/V) New Horizon.
Field Report: Bilal Khan From Temple University Study on Exxon Valdez Oil Pollution (3)
Field Reports 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.
Field Reports: Bilal Khan From Temple University Study on Exxon Valdez Oil Pollution (2)
Field Reports 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.
Field Reports: Bilal Khan From Temple University Study on Exxon Valdez Oil Pollution (1)
Editor’s Note: A new feature here on Marine Science Today begins with this Field Report from Bilal Khan, a master’s candidate working with Prof. Michael Boufadel and his study team trying to figure out why oil pullution from the Exxon Valdez spill persists in Prince William Sound
Exxon Valdez: Understanding The On-Going Pollution Problem and Providing Solutions
A second and final research trip to Prince William Sound, Alaska, will conclude a study to help understand why there is still oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill remaining in certain areas.
University Roundup: The Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University
New from the University Roundup: Rutgers’ Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, well-known for its fleet of AUVs
University Roundup: Rosentstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami
University Roundup: The latest news from University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric sciences.
