There are some people who walk apart from the madding crowds of the dull and boring. One such in the world of ocean science was…
Icelandic Volcano with the difficult name, Eyjafjallajökull’s iron-rich ash fertilized North Atlantic Ocean In about a third of the global ocean, the abundance of life…
There’s An App For That Two weeks ago, a group of sailors off the coast of New Zealand leaned over the side of their boat,…
Greenland adds vital nutrient to ocean Reuters March 11, 2013 A melt of Greenland’s ice is washing large amounts of the nutrient iron into the…
Ocean data startup Liquid Robotics raises $45M Liquid Robotics, whose ocean robots generate their power from waves and gather data on the seas, said on…
A pharmaceutical research and development startup and NOAA signed an agreement designed with two goals in mind. The company, Biosortia, plans to discover and extract beneficial…
Scientists have been collecting data on the world’s oceans for decades now. But the files containing this information are massive and come in dozens of…
Government of Canada Invests $32 Million in Ocean Science October 3, 2012 Ocean Networks Canada is a critical hub for research and technology Ottawa, ON…
The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific J. Craig Venter’s GOS has sequenced 6.3 billion base pairs of DNA…
One of the tools you need to understand your ocean pasture is actually a frame with a large collection of instruments that you lower into…
An incredibly useful and state of the art science tool in our ocean pasture stewards tool kit is our FIRE instrument. They don’t come cheap,…
Studying plankton requires some passion If you are going to replenish, restore, and tend to ocean pastures you must first study plankton, and you might as…
For billions of years when this planet was first learning about life, the only form of life of the planet were the cyanobacteria, the Blue…
Overfished and under-protected: Oceans on the brink of catastrophic collapse By Tom Levitt, for CNN, updated 12:11 PM EDT, Fri March 22, 2013 In many ways,…
Fleets of robot submarines will change oceanography ECONOMIST Jun 9th 2012 SAILING the seven seas is old hat. The latest trick is to glide them. Sea…
BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) — This year’s Tree-Planting Day comes at a fitting time, as the memory of a sandstorm that ravaged large parts of…
How ought one react and respond to lies Perhaps this series of post will be therapeutic or perhaps even corrective. Alas it is a distasteful…