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World Oceans Day:Bring the seas into your home;exploration is one click away
World Oceans Day seas into your home one click away
2016/6/12
In the years after the HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth, England, in 1872, researchers made discoveries that laid the foundation of the science of oceanography. These scientists could...
Clues to future of undersea exploration may reside inside a jellyfish-like creature
future of undersea exploration jellyfish-like creature
2015/10/13
Siphonophores, they're called: Marine animals that navigate inner space like undersea mini-versions of the starship Enterprise.Most siphonophores are long, thin, transparent floaters. At 130 to 160 fe...
The Straits of Florida is a trough that separates the Florida
Peninsula from Cuba and the Great Bahama Bank (Figure 1).
It acts as both a conduit and a barrier for ecosystem exchange
and is an i...
Exploration of the Windward Passage and Jamaica Channel: Tectonic Gateways to the Caribbean Sea
Windward Passage Jamaica Channel
2015/8/10
In August 2014, E/V Nautilus explored the region delimited
by two deep straits of the northern Caribbean: the Windward
Passage, which separates Cuba and Haiti, and the Jamaica
Channel, which sep...
Ocean Exploration
Ocean ExplorationOcean
2015/7/31
What fuels scientific discovery? The experts on this subject, the philosophers of science, have recently tended to promote the value of hypothesis-driven research, in which questions suggest experimen...
The Impact of Quaternary Global Changes on Strata Formation: Exploration of the Shelf Edge in the Northwest Mediterranean Sea
Strata Formation Northwest Mediterranean Sea
2015/7/29
Paleoceanographic and marine paleoclimatic investigations commonly use deep, open-ocean sediments or coral reefs to establish a continuous record of past global environmental changes because they both...
As oceanographers contemplate a renewed commitment to ocean exploration (National Research Council, 2003), Helen Rozwadowski has given us a book chronicling the importance of discovery and exploration...
Exploration of Life in Deep Subseafloor Sediments
Exploration of Life Deep Subseafloor Sediments
2015/7/24
The scientific ocean drilling community has been retrieving cores from hundreds of meters below the seafloor since the inception of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) in 1968. While microbiological ...
Down to the Sea for Science: 75 Years of Ocean Research, Education, and Exploration at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 75 Years
2015/7/23
Since its beginning, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has been the quintessential American oceanographic research institution. Although WHOI was not the oldest American institution dedi...
The past several decades of ocean research have brought to light a host of truly paradigm-overturning discoveries that are distributed among all oceanography disciplines. They range in scale and subje...
In the words of Paul Simon, "these are the days of miracles and wonder."1 We live in a time when any given cruise can give rise to whole new concepts and observations that enhance understanding. Many ...
Mid-Ocean Ridge Exploration with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Ocean
2015/7/22
Human-occupied submersibles, towed vehicles, and tethered remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) have traditionally been used to study the deep seafloor. In recent years, however, autonomous underwater veh...
Exploration for Deep-Sea Corals on North Pacific Seamounts and Islands
North Pacific Seamounts Islands
2015/7/22
Seamounts are mountains that rise from the seafloor. The technical geological definition of a seamount is a steep-sided feature with greater than 1000 m of relief compared to the surrounding sea botto...
The time is August 2, 2007, and a blue, white, and red titanium flag rests on the soil of an alien world. The explorers who planted it, tucked safely within the confines of their twin vehicles, are sa...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle exploration of the Ocean cavity Beneath an Antarctic ice Shelf
Underwater Vehicle Ocean
2015/7/15
in recent years, mass loss from the Antarctic
ice Sheet has contributed nearly 0.5 mm yr–1
to global mean sea level rise, about one-sixth of
the current rate (church et al., 2011). Around
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