Technologies Changing Insight Into Seas
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MONTEREY, Calif. -- On a sunny mid-October afternoon, Stanford University graduate student Chris Perle was out at sea, searching for a four-inch metallic gray object, resembling a small microphone with an antenna, adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
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By Anonymous  The New South Wales Department of Environment & Conservation (NSW DEC) has been using a 125 kHz GeoAcoustics GeoSwath Plus wide swath sonar system for habitat mapping within the state's network of Marine Protected Areas.
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Scientists recently returned from a deep-ocean expedition say they are a step closer to understanding how life thrives around cracks spewing scalding water at the bottom of the ocean.
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The University of Rhode Island has designed a voyage to the bottom of the sea for students in an emerging field of scientific exploration &#151; archaeological oceanography.
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By Anonymous  Size and shape may predict the survival of coral reefs around the world when the weather churns the oceans in the years to come, according to a new model that relies on engineering principles.
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In a modern update of "fish and chips," researchers are planning a worldwide effort to track the movement of sea creatures tagged with tiny electronic devices.
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Scientists will use advanced technology never before deployed beneath the sea as they try to discover new creatures, behaviors and phenomena in a 10-day expedition to the Gulf of Mexico's deepest reaches.
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Unraveling the genetic map of diatoms -- microscopic sea creatures -- could pay big dividends in defending the world's ecological systems. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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By JOHN ROSS  A GLIMPSE of rare treasures of the deep has been captured by scientists studying two of Scotland's best-known sea lochs.
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By Cammen, Leon M  In last year's Review and Forecast article for Sea Technology magazine, we presented some of the activities being undertaken by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Sea Grant College Program in response to President George W.
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By Whitesides, George M  Travelogues from Lilliput THE DANCE OF MOLECULES: How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives. Ted Sargent, xx + 234 pp. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006. $25.  NANO-HYPE: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz. David Berube. Foreword by Mihail C. Roco. 521 pp.
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The critical base of the ocean food web is shrinking as the world's seas warm, new NASA satellite data show. The discovery has scientists worried about how much food will grow in the future for the world's marine life.
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WASHINGTON -- NASA satellite data have helped scientists solve a decades-old puzzle about how vast blooms of microscopic plants can form in the middle of otherwise barren mid-ocean regions.
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Study illustrates extent to which overfishing, air pollution and commercial shipping impact oceans.
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The world of science has been busy all through 2004. The probing eye looked in all directions. It looked at the skies, at the ground beneath our feet, at the wings of a butterfly and at the molecules of water.
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A submersible robot can harvest timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. By Michael Behar from Wired magazine.
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In the wake of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis last week, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Conrad Lautenbacher has renewed his call for a Global Ocean Observing System that could patch together many governmentsâ stovepiped sensors.