Tag: Oceanography
Building a detailed seafloor map to reveal the ocean’s unknowns
Scientists are building an accurate seafloor map can improve oceanographic and climate models, secure marine navigation, inform defence operations, and guide environmental decisions.
Marine scientists...
Caribbean Sea acts like a whistle and can be ‘heard’ from...
A study of the Caribbean Sea by University of Liverpool ocean scientists has revealed that, in the midst of all the noise of the...
Hydrothermal vents, methane seeps play enormous role in marine life, global...
A lush community of vibrant red tube worms grows on a black smoker chimney in the ASHES hydrothermal field. The tube worms, which are...
Polluted dust can impact ocean life thousands of miles away
As iron is deposited from air pollution off the coast of East Asia, ocean currents carry the nutrient far and wide.
Credit: Georgia Institute of...
Saharan dust affects marine bacteria, potential pathogen Vibrio
This portrait of global aerosols was produced by a Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 simulation at a 10-kilometer resolution. Dust (red) is...