The importance of being NOAA
Did you look at the weather before you left the house today? NOAA provided that data. Photo by Rodrigo Vieira Do you eat salmon, shellfish or even McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish? NOAA works with fisheries to...
View ArticleHow to recover when something goes very, very wrong at sea
No shit, Sherlock. A staggering achievement – fishing for a 2m thing in 5000m water with a 10,000m line … very, very well done. https://t.co/gvKiU23H9B — Sheldon Bacon (@sheldonbacon) March 10, 2017 I...
View ArticleIf you love geophysical fluid dynamics, then you will love these foamy...
#Landsat8 saw fine, bright filaments on shallow, super salty #Garabogazkol yesterday.Bands of foam perhaps? This tweeter does not know. pic.twitter.com/ugSzIS5IGB — NASA Ocean (@NASAOcean) April 5,...
View ArticleWe all Marched for Science
From sea to shining sea. Rebecca marched in Falmouth Jarrett marched in BostonCraig marched in New Orleans Douglas marched in Berkeley* * Douglas’s sign is a quote from the Life Aquatic Holly marched...
View ArticleMorning Zen: The infinite waves of Ray Collins
Using computer art magic, Armand Dijcks has turned the still photographs of Ray Collins into wonderful kinetic images of waves. Turn on full screen. Press play. Be soothed. Calm out.The post Morning...
View ArticleWhat actually happened in the sea during the solar eclipse!
Last week, we wrote a teaser on what would happen in the sea during the eclipse. But now the results are in and YES! CALAMITY ENSUED. Sort of. On August 21 2017, the moon passed in front of the sun,...
View ArticleA quick look at the data from inside Hurricane Irma
OMG Irma. It is going through the Caribbean and slamming everything in its path. I’ve been getting updates from friends in the Virgin Islands and it sounds like it was harrowing. Thankfully they made...
View ArticleThe (ocean) physics of The Ocean Cleanup’s System 001
The following is a guest post by Dr. Clark Richards, a physical oceanographer at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Canada. It was originally posted on his personal blog. Clark is an...
View ArticleThis marine worm is called the Sand Striker
TRIGGER WARNING This article or section, or pages it links to, contains information about sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering to survivors. This is the Sand Striker[source:...
View ArticleDon’t be shallow. A tale of subsurface microplastics and the processes that...
One thing you should know about me is that I am from New York and I am half Italian. That means when I like something, I get highly animated about it. In person, I’ll start waving my arms around wildly...
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