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Ten Cordova High School students participated last month in the Alaska Tsunami Bowl, the regional competition of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. They joined 22 teams of students from around the state for the academic competition, held annually in Seward during the first weekend in February.
Seastar along the shore of Cobscook Bay, Maine, August 2007.
The marine ecologist and administrator of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration discusses restoring the bounty of the world’s oceans
Part SEVEN and final episode of the weekly update from the JOIDES Resolution, sailing for the Antarctic coast of Wilkes Land between January and March 2010.
A U.N. wildlife meeting has rejected efforts to regulate the trade in overfished porbeagle sharks, reversing an earlier ruling at the conference and leaving none of the proposed shark species with protection.
A survey of 200 sites in 20 countries around the world has found that bisphenol A, a synthetic compound that mimics estrogen and is linked to developmental disorders, is ubiquitous in Earth’s oceans.
NOAA and coastal states to test tsunami warning communication system
Some regions of the deep ocean floor support abundant populations of organisms, despite being overlain by water that contains very little oxygen, according to an international study led by scientists at the United Kingdom’s National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
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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....
Amazing Sea Butterflies Are the Ocean’s Canary in the Coal Mine : The chemistry of the ocean is changing. Most climate change discussion focuses on the warmth of the air, but around one-quarter of the carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere dissolves into the ocean. ...
As CO2 Approaches Symbolic Milestone, Scripps Launches Daily Keeling Curve Update : Levels of the greenhouse gas are approaching 400 parts per million; Scripps offering daily Twitter feed, news and analysis of climate indicators ...
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....
Marine Debris Tracker : Discarded metal, fishing gear, plastic, glass and other waste can both sully a beach and pose a health threat to its inhabitants....
Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor : In the middle of the South Atlantic, there's a patch of sea almost devoid of life. ...
Remember the BP Oil Spill? Malformed Fish Do : A new study shows that sediments fouled with oil from the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico caused problems for fish embryos. ...
