The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project announced in late September that two dozen jumbo, or Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) were recently tagged off Grays Harbor, WA. Stanford, NOAA and WDFW colleagues acoustically tagged these immense squid for the first time ever.
A new MBARI robot spent most of July traveling across the muddy ocean bottom, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) off the California coast. The Benthic Rover has been providing scientists with an entirely new view of life on the deep seafloor and is meant to give scientists a way to document the effects of climate change on the deep 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.
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 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.
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
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.
New from the University Roundup: Rutgers’ Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, well-known for its fleet of AUVs
University Roundup: The latest news from University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric sciences.
Greenpeace signed a contract with Fassmer shipyards to construct a new vessel that will be equipped with the latest in green technology.
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