Duke News and Communications just put up a press release about the Beagle Project! “In an inspiring mix of 19th and 21st Century technologies, a Duke Marine Lab researcher will play the role of Charles Darwin on an upcoming oceanographic cruise off the coast of Brazil.”
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By Dr. M, on  September 16th, 2009  4 comments  Expeditions, Scientist!  Beagle Project, Darwin, Duke, oceanography, Sailing, Science, tall ship By Dr. M, on July 7th, 2009 10 comments Education, Scientist! adminsitration, economic crisis, economy, faculty, Florida State University, job cuts, oceanography, recession, tenure, university In April, I reported that Word from Tallahassee is that oceanography may be out at FSU! Florida State administrators this afternoon released a draft of proposed wide-sweeping cutbacks at the university, based on current reductions in state revenue. If enacted, they would dramatically alter the university as we know it. Twenty-one degree programs at FSU . . . → Read More: Oceanography on the Chopping Block: The Conclusion
By Peter Etnoyer, on May 14th, 2009 28 comments - (Comments are closed) New Research Amy Bower, deep western boundary current, global conveyor belt, global thermohaline circulation, Gulf Stream, ocean circulation, oceanography, Susan Lozier Science Daily is reporting that just because they teach you something in graduate school doesn’t make it right. A 50 year old model of global thermohaline circulation that predicts a deep Atlantic counter current below the Gulf Stream is now formally called into question by an armada of subsurface RAFOS floats drifting 700 – . . . → Read More: Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt Reconsidered
By Peter Etnoyer, on January 31st, 2009 One comment Gadgets & Gear, Organisms, Scientist!, Vessels and Equipment marine science, oceanography, Research, robot, Rutgers, Teledyne Webb, trans-atlantic Sea turtles do it. Ocean liners do it. Charles Lindbergh did it. Even a Zeppelin can do it. Can an autonomous robot do it, across the North Atlantic Ocean… underwater? The journey across the Atlantic has always been an historic one. Now marine scientists are preparing what may be the first autonomous crossing by an . . . → Read More: Robot glider to make Trans-Atlantic journey
By Peter Etnoyer, on July 22nd, 2008 One comment Weather oceanography, storm intensity, tropical storm dolly The view from my desk in the kitchen is a sunny garden near the bay, but Tropical Storm Dolly is moving slowly west from 200 km off the coast here in the Gulf of Mexico. I am “in the Cone”. The one question on my mind, though, is how and will this tropical storm intensify? . . . → Read More: Blogging the Storm, Part 1
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