For too long ocean exploration has suffered from chronic underfunding and the lack of an independent agency with a dedicated mission. Here, Al Dove and…
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We Need an Ocean NASA Now Pt.2
For too long ocean exploration has suffered from chronic underfunding and the lack of an independent agency with a dedicated mission. Here, Al Dove and…
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For too long ocean exploration has suffered from chronic underfunding and the lack of an independent agency with a dedicated mission. Here, Al Dove and…
View More We Need an Ocean NASA Now Pt.1The venerable, yet chronically misidentified, CTD
So you are on research cruise. And in your state of unadulterated science glee you decide that you want to share with the world your…
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We’re excited for another guest post from Kim Martini here at DSN (read previous posts here). Kim is a physical oceanographer working at the University of Alaska,…
View More Notes from the field: North, to the Arctic Ocean!SeaOrbiter: amazing breakthrough or cool-looking boondoggle?
I swear, I don’t want to be a nay-saying science crankypants. I want to dream big and have my own submarine and frolic on the…
View More SeaOrbiter: amazing breakthrough or cool-looking boondoggle?I Am Science with the First Man to Dive Challenger Deep
I asked, “What were the events that lead to you to dive the Marianas Trench?” Don Walsh one of two men to first visit the…
View More I Am Science with the First Man to Dive Challenger DeepFishy phone home
If you’re at all interested in charismatic megafauna (it’s OK, embrace the shame), then you’ve probably heard of satellite tagging before. This is the idea…
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California has been a big transition for me. I mean big. Not only am I now living in the sun-drenched utopia I have long pined…
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This week the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer has been dropping its ROV Little Hercules onto various features in the northern Gulf of Mexico, including an…
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