The story of sea salt. It’s a story of geology, endurance, and erosion. Unfortunately, this story seems to be unknown to several persons of dubious copious fame. And…
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Category: Environmental Sciences
The origin of ripples and other fantastic fluid experiments by Hertha Marks Ayrton
To any one who, for the first time, sees a great stretch of sandy shore covered with innumerable ridges and furrows, as if combed with…
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Some of the best internal waves for Earth Day
The earth is pretty awesome. And because it is Earth Day, I am going to celebrate one of my favorite Earth features: internal waves. I mean…
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I use a waterproof case on my iPhone because I live in Seattle and I constantly drop it. Ryan Pernofski has a waterproof case on his iPhone to take gorgeous slow-motion…
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Oceanography yarn-bombed!
I come from a family of insanely good knitters. For a time, my mom even knitted professionally for some fancy department store in Manhattan. Although…
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CRAB SWARM!
It is no secret that I find many denizens of the deep icky. Crustaceans are among them. But this video of a swarm of crabs is…
View More CRAB SWARM!A little science, a little soccer. All while adrift on the ice.
Think you are hardcore because you’ve been on a research cruise for a week? A month? Three months? Well you ain’t got nothing on these…
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Two California fishermen pretend they are maritime pirates and hold an oceanographic mooring for ransom
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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Waves of Washington’s Windstorm
Check out @NWSSeattle image of windstorm! We’re monitoring the situation and will have highway updates here. pic.twitter.com/WEvmMInlKs — WSDOT Traffic (@wsdot_traffic) March 13, 2016 We…
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Five ways conductivity data met an untimely demise
I’ve been looking at a lot of data lately. Visions of data are dancing in my head. Why? Because often, an oceanographic sensor will just crap out. And…
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