An ambitious idea spawned more than 20 years ago to develop a new way to watch the world change has come to fruition. The Global Drifter Program (GDP), largely led by Scripps Institution of ...

Oceanographers have long wanted to make measurements of the ocean’s vital signs of temperature and conductivity at varying depth to better understand storms and a host of other phenomena. The way to ...

A new study deployed 55 aircraft ocean instruments from the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration's WP-3D aircraft. The purpose of the scientific mission was to measure ocean temperature, ...

After five years and 8,700 mi (14,000 km), a lost oceanographic instrument package has turned up on a beach in Tasmania. The deep-ocean monitoring equipment belonging to Britain's National ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) crew and embarked researchers ventured onto a floe of multi-year ice for the first of three multi-instrument ice stations in the Arctic Ocean Basin late July ...

The first stage in building an undersea research observatory on the floor of Monterey Bay will begin today when a power cable 32 miles long is emplaced on and under the seabed, where scientists will ...

Oceanographers have completed an important step in constructing the first deep-sea observatory off the continental United States. Workers in the multi-institution effort laid 32 miles (52 kilometers) ...

THE most complete survey of the physical oceanography of an ocean was carried out by the German research vessel Meteor in the South Atlantic. The plan of the expedition centred largely upon ...

(Article by Kim Fulton-Bennett of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)An interdisciplinary group of researchers from Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, ...