Increasingly, the world's oceans are telling us our climate system may be changing faster and more dramatically than expected ...

Erin Satterthwaite, a sustainability researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will be the featured presenter in April for the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s (SBMM) Maritime Distinguished ...

Sustained scientific observations and monitoring are crucial, offering researchers a unique, sustained window into upper ocean currents, water properties, and marine ecology. An initiative between ...

In a report published in this week’s issue of Science, a team of oceanographers, including MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) Ecosystems Center director Hugh Ducklow, outline a polar ocean observation ...

Marine heatwaves can jam the ocean’s natural carbon conveyor belt, preventing carbon from reaching the deep sea. Researchers studying two major heatwaves in the Gulf of Alaska found that plankton ...

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., introduced the Reauthorization of Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act. The bill would reauthorize the Integrated Ocean ...

The National Academies is conducting Phase 2 of the Sustaining Ocean Observations activity. An ad hoc committee will plan a workshop to explore partnership and organizational models to foster ...

Despite the ocean’s critical role in Earth’s climate, observations for some of the key ocean climate properties are either only short-term (10-20 years duration) or insufficient to understand ...

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., the aerospace arm of Westminster-based metal-packaging manufacturer Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL), is one of two companies selected by the National Oceanic and ...

“Hurricane Hunter” aircraft are mobilizing for an expanded 13-week period that began Jan. 5 to glean critical data for improving forecasts of atmospheric river storms over the Pacific Ocean. Such ...

Viewed from the Voyager 1 space probe as it passed beyond the edge of the solar system, Earth and Venus might not look too different – same diameter, similar mass and distance from the Sun. But from a ...