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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A satellite tracking project shows the ocean hotspots where albatrosses come into conflict with longline trawlers.
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Hurricane science in the new century is a mix of growing skill and persistent uncertainty, of intuition and algorithms, satellites and erasers.
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The interplay between the oceans and atmosphere is changing, wiping out vast swathes of marine life, say scientists.
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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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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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By Gerrodette, Tim  HOW TO SAVE OCEANIC LIFE Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity. Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder, eds. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2005. 470 pp., illus. $49.95 (ISBN 9781559636629 paper).
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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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A survey of the world's oceans is turning up more than two new species of fish a week and revealing huge trans-ocean migration routes by creatures from turtles to tuna, scientists say.
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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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A simple sea creature could help to address the problem of global warming, a scientist claims.
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Environmental researchers said climate change is changing the way scientists view the future of ocean resources off the U.S. West Coast.
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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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Some 13,000 new marine species have been discovered in the past year by an international survey project.
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His hand on a toggle switch and his eyes on a computer screen, Oregon State University graduate student Anthony Kirincich uses an array of scientific instruments to probe the vibrant waters of the Pacific. He is searching for the absence of life.
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Since ancient times poets have revered the power of the seas. Now energy companies and coastal cities like New York and San Francisco are aiming to tap ocean waves and tidal currents as abundant sources of electricity.
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The collapse of two Antarctic ice shelves is offering scientists a glimpse of rarely seen species&#8212;and at how pristine ocean ecosystems respond to sudden change.&#149; See photos >>