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What's Hot This Month

• Vast Methane-Based Ecosystem Uncovered : A marine research expedition sponsored by the BOEM and the NOAA has led to the discovery of perhaps the world's largest methane cold seep by two university-based research teams and their partners, UNCW announced today....


• Oceans Awash: 5 Wins and 5 Losses in 2010 : President Obama issued an executive order in July to implement conservation-based management of our public seas -- based on marine spatial planning, or what former Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen calls, "urban planning into the water column." ...


• The Ocean Offers Many Lessons : Even before Darwin first speculated that life emerged from "some warm little pond," the book of Genesis said God prefaced the creation of humanity by making the "great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water."...


• Changing Wave Heights Projected As The Atmosphere Warms; ‘Considerable Uncertainty Remains’ : Climate scientists studying the impact of changing wave behavior on the world's coastlines are reporting a likely decrease in average wave heights across 25 per cent of the global ocean....


• New NOAA Report Examines National Oil Pollution Threat from Shipwrecks : NOAA presented to the U.S. Coast Guard today a new report that finds that 36 sunken vessels scattered across the U.S. seafloor could pose an oil pollution threat to the nation's coastal marine resources....


• Lower Sea Levels Influenced Tropical Climate During Ice Age : A vast pool of warm water stretches along the equator from Africa to the western Pacific Ocean....


• Opportunity: Senior Manager, Policy : The Consortium for Ocean Leadership is pleased to announce the search for a Senior Manager, Policy. This is a regular, full-time. exempt position....


• Shark-Stalking Robot Will Spy on Ocean’s Deadliest Predators : This summer, a new underwater robot will start tracking some of the ocean's top predators -- including great white sharks -- to learn more about their habits....


• World Ocean Day: Why Do We Currently Know More About the Moon than Our Own Oceans? : How much do we know about life in the ocean? A lot, you might say. But how much do we really know about life in the ocean? A lot less than you might think, I say....


• Journey to the Center of the Earth: Could It Really Happen? : Jules Verne's classic science fiction novel A Journey to the Centre of the Earth has stood the test of time as imagination-capturing entertainment. Originally penned in 1864, it has been adapted into films, television and animation, thrill rides, video games a...