Spending: Dipping a Toe Into Marine Biology, at a Summer Camp
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About 50 camps now specialize in marine biology studies, according to the American Camp Association. That is an increase of about 25 percent since 1998.
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JUNEAU, Alaska  -- A team of scientists is traveling a 600-mile stretch of the Inside Passage this month to study the effects of cruise ship waste and other contaminants in Southeast Alaska waters.    The $450,000 project is part of a nationwide look at the environmental health of coastal waters...
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Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or some Spanish galleon but instead nature's bounty, rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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Hubble space technology and the global networking power of the Internet is being put to good use in wildlife conservation by giving researchers a clearer understanding of the status of the endangered whale shark.
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WASHINGTON - The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Maine $239,020 for environmental research, according to U.S. Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins.
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Instead of wearing khakis, students this summer at Croton Point Park donned wet suits and scuba gear as they dug up discoveries beyond the reach of landlocked archaeologists.
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By Patricia Smith, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Sep. 21--MOREHEAD CITY -- The newest member of the state Marine Fisheries Commission is studying for next week's commission meeting in Atlantic Beach.
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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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Smithsonian scientists have discovered a biodiversity bounty in the Eastern Pacific -- approximately 50 percent of the organisms found in some groups are new to science. The research team spent 11 days in the Eastern Pacific, a unique, understudied region off the coast of Panama.
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Flash animation or tennis? As summer camps open for business, parents need to seek out a good balance.
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He's part of a National Park Service experiment in south Florida to send first-time fishing violators to a school instead of fining them.
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Washington Post science writer Juliet Eilperin discusses her Monday Science Page feature story about how technology is transforming our understanding of the ocean.
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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 BRIAN SKOLOFF  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine.   It's not sunken treasure or a Spanish galleon but rather nature's bounty: rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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You can learn a lot from a microbe. Right now, a tiny critter from the Dead Sea is teaching scientists new things about biotechnology, cancer, possible life on other worlds. And that's just for starters.
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The floating campus of Semester at Sea takes a new tack with cell phones and wireless Net access.
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By Kathleen Merryman, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Dec. 11--Tacoma's Sea Scouts will have their new Sea Base.   Better yet, they'll share it with other programs and services aimed at getting people, young and not so, back on the water.