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Royal Research Ship (RSS) Discovery stopped at Azores, Portugal, for supplies during the 29th Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT29). The cruise departed from…

A. M. Palacio-Castro, I. C. Enochs, et al. Ocean acidification (OA) threatens coral reef persistence by decreasing calcification and accelerating the dissolution of reef frameworks. The carbonate chemistry of coastal areas where many…

A dolomite sample from the Cambrian Muav formation as seen through a microscope. Multiple generations of mineral-growth can be seen. Credit: Uri Ryb, Hebrew University…

Why study the Pacific? The Pacific is the largest and deepest ocean basin on Earth. Many of the islands in its waters – including Guam and American Samoa – sit within or near the Ring of Fire, an area of the…

In the 1890s, railway engineers noticed river water used by steam locomotives started to become salty when surrounding land was cleared for agriculture. Over the next decades, the problem worsened. In 1917, a Royal Commission in…

Schematic diagram of the modeled trajectories of computationally-released radiocaesium particles, which can be split into three pattern clusters: transport along the…

A 12-meter tall black smoker hydrothermal vent emitting fluids at 332°C (630°F), one of the active vents discovered on a recent expedition to the East Pacific Rise, a…

Scientists extracted a 5.3 million-year record of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by drilling sediment cores in the Earth's most remote waters. Here, the drill ship…

Saint Peter Saint Paul Archipelago (SPSPA)Saint Peter Saint Paul Archipelago, Brazil19offshorede Oliveira et al., 2019 Caribbean Offshore (CAO)Golfo de Morrosquillo, Córdoba Province, Colombia3offshoreCaballero et al., 2012 Ciénaga,…

The Lehigh Ocean Research Center displayed research about the Earth’s oceans by students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty during its inaugural symposium in January.  The College of Arts and Sciences launched the center in 2024,…

The Lehigh Ocean Research Center displayed research about the Earth’s oceans by students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty during its inaugural symposium in January.  The College of Arts and…

A large part of Palumbi’s work focuses on community engagement. While in Palau, he met with Sharp Sakuma, the governor of the Palauan state of Ngaraard, who is hoping to use Palumbi’s findings in a local reef restoration project.…

Sea-surface temperatures influence storms, droughts, and sea ice. Credit: Pixabay A new study supported by the Climate Program Office’s Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) Program investigates the…

The planets are in a gravitational dance around the sunShutterstock/Johan Swanepoel The gravitational tug of Mars may be strong enough to stir up Earth’s ocean, shifting its sediments as part of a 2.4-million-year…

The ocean provides us with so much – including food, jobs, and recreation – but is under tremendous strain. Globally, two-thirds of the ocean has been significantly altered by human activity. Already stressed from decades…

The workshop is the latest collaboration under an Education Partnership Agreement (EPA) established in 2022 between the two institutions in direct support of the U.S. Navy’s Climate Action 2030 strategy,…

The workshop is the latest collaboration under an Education Partnership Agreement (EPA) established in 2022 between the two institutions in direct support of the U.S. Navy’s Climate Action 2030 strategy,…

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The Arctic often feels like a faraway place. However, a recent study shows that despite its remoteness, the Arctic is no sanctuary from human pollution. What is happening? Recent evidence from a study by scientists at…

Our world may seem fragile, but Earth has been around for a very long time. If we ventured far back into the past, would we reach a time when it looked fundamentally different? The answer lies in some of the earliest extensive…

Credit: NOAA Photo Library/Animalia, CC BY The Great Southern Australian Coastal Upwelling System is an upward current of water over vast…

The National Weather Service issued an updated coastal flood advisory at 3:22 p.m. on Sunday in effect until Monday at 2 a.m. for Ocean County.The weather service states, "Up to one foot of inundation above ground level in low-lying…

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USGS scientists leverage and develop cutting-edge technology and methods to produce novel findings that decision-makers need to sustainably manage ocean resources.    Talks and posters will showcase how USGS ecologists produce…

When the faecal matter produced by plankton sinks, it carries carbon from shallow waters to long-term storage deep in the ocean – now, researchers want to make the stuff sink faster

Want to know what a sand tiger shark has been eating? Look to its teeth. Peter Pinnock / Alamy Stock Photo…

A view of a vegetated inland coastline overlooking the water on Dauphin Island, Alabama.  Coastal environments, such as estuarine wetland and barrier island landscapes, are dynamic systems that provide ecological, economic,…

An artist’s impression showing K2-18b as a potentially habitable ocean world may not be correctNASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI) A distant planet once touted as a potential location to look for alien life is…

An artist’s impression showing K2-18b as a potentially habitable ocean world may not be correctNASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI) A distant planet once touted as a potential location to look for alien life is…

In this video message, NOS Deputy Assistant Administrator Rachael Dempsey shares how recent advancements in the GRAV-D project will help reduce risk for…

In this video message, NOS Assistant Administrator Nicole LeBoeuf celebrates the 25th anniversary of NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration. (Video Transcript)…

Workers clean oil from the rocks following a spill in Port Arthur, Texas in January 2010. In 1976, the tanker Argo Merchant grounded near Nantucket Shoals in Massachusetts. When…

The graph shows how the pH of global ocean waters decreased between 1982 and 2022—this means that the ocean has become 18% more acidic over 40 years. The pH stripes…

Altering wastewater released into the ocean could help store carbonstockphoto-graf / Alamy Reducing the acidity of the huge volumes of wastewater discharged into the oceans could be a relatively straightforward way…

Why This Matters The ocean is critical to human society and life on Earth. Its currents help shape the weather and regulate the climate. Its fisheries feed billions of people and accounted for 1.7 million jobs and $253 billion in…

1 Introduction Detecting ocean eddies is an important task because they can have significant impacts on ocean circulation and marine life. These gyrating currents cause a poleward heat transport and an upwelling of salt and nutrients…

The United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Clean Cities, Blue Ocean program, joined Circulate Capital, an impact-focused investment management firm, and Prevented Ocean Plastic…

Mysterious, neatly aligned holes have been discovered deep in the ocean — and scientists are stumped about their origin.The small, oblong cavities are spaced about 10 centimetres apart and repeat, in some cases, for several metres."It…

By Annie Reisewitz, University of Miami Researchers studying South Florida’s coral reefs found that the region’s nearshore reefs and more sheltered inshore areas are less vulnerable to ocean acidification than previously…

The NCEI’s Ocean Climate Laboratory (OCL) has released the full World Ocean Atlas 2023 (WOA23) Global Climatologies of Temperature, Salinity, Dissolved Oxygen, and Inorganic Nutrients. This is a five year update to enhance the previous…

CPO’s Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CVP) alongside NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program (GOMO) will be co-hosting several activities at the 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting during the week of February 18-23…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is…

Professor Kendall Moore and GSO’s Inner Space Center selected to deliver opening presentation Feb. 15, 2024 The world’s premier gathering of oceanographers will begin next week in Louisiana with a little bit of a different…

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During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum recorded in marine sediments, nitrogen isotopes and body size of microfossils reveal an increase in the oxygenation of the…

Chief Scientist Frieder Klein and Deep Rover Pilot Alan Scot exploring a submerged carbonate platform. Credit: Novus Select Studying a rock…

Scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) are gearing up for a busy season at sea with three research cruises departing in the month of February. The A13.5 Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic…

At Año Nuevo State Beach, tide pools teem with marine life. Vibrantly colored nudibranchs and starfish scour this ever-changing habitat while hermit crabs navigate millennia-old depressions in the coastal rock they call home. The…

NASA’s satellite mission to study ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate for the benefit of humanity launched successfully into orbit at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday. Known as PACE, the Plankton, Aerosol, Climate,…