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…
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Oceanography on the Chopping Block: The Conclusion
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…
View More Oceanography on the Chopping Block: The ConclusionDeep Ocean Conveyor Belt Reconsidered
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…
View More Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt ReconsideredRobot glider to make Trans-Atlantic journey
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…
View More Robot glider to make Trans-Atlantic journeyBlogging the Storm, Part 1
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?
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