First, let’s give a shoutout to these two dudes who found a washed up mooring and, like adults, gave it back to MBARI. Now I…
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Category: Currents
Where is the best place to put your ocean cleanup device? Not where currently proposed.
You might think that to clean up the problem of plastic in the ocean, you should place your cleanup device where there is the most…
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Tour the deep Southern Ocean from the safety of your couch
You know I love a good visualization and this one of the Southern Ocean is no slouch. I forgive the somewhat standard narration for the…
View More Tour the deep Southern Ocean from the safety of your couchFirst Tide Table Publication
In December 1866, the U.S. Coast Survey (NOAA’s predecessor agency) began printing tide tables as an independent, annual publication. The first edition, for the…
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Ocean spin cycle traps hapless pufferfish.
Oh little pufferfish. Your tiny little fins are no match for a mini-ocean maelstrom. You and your buddy are trapped in a small ocean vortex that keeps…
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How currents pushed debris from the missing Malaysian Air flight across the Indian Ocean to Réunion
What seems to be debris from the Malaysian Air flight MH370 that mysteriously vanished in March 2014 has washed up on on the island of Réunion…
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Are the ocean and atmosphere finally cooperating and is El Niño really here? Probably.
El Niño has been playing with my heart for a whole year now*. It’s coming. It’s not coming. It’s gonna be huge. It’s not coming…
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ROV gets caught in turbidity current, lives to tell the tale.
Imagine you are yodeling whilst snowshoeing in a majestic mountain range. All of a sudden you hear a rumble. You look up to see a white…
View More ROV gets caught in turbidity current, lives to tell the tale.Fukushima radiation detected 100 miles from California Coast. Still not harmful.
The latest results from the Fukushima radiation citizen science project Our Radioactive Ocean have just been released. NO Cesium-134 has been detected on West Coast shores, but it…
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The Ocean Cleanup, Part 2: Technical review of the feasibility study
INTRODUCTION This is the second of a two-part post. In the first installment, Kim presented alternatives to this project. This installment is a collaboration between…
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