While many international leaders work toward emission reduction strategies and carbon capture and storage they are missing the really key core problem. That problem is…
Read along with me as I share with you my report on being witness to the greatest migration of animal life on Earth. In the…
The series of satellite images below shows the plankton abundance during the month of August in our study region over the past 6 years. Note…
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…
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…
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…
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…
No seafood for consumption in about 50 years Borneo Post KOTA KINABALU: Unless something is done to check the decline of marine biodiversity, there will…
Ocean Plankton Managing Twice the Carbon As Previously Believed Models of carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans need to be revised, according to new work…
Plant life in the world’s oceans has become less productive since the early 1980s, absorbing less carbon, which may in turn impact the Earth’s carbon…
One of our goals in last summers at sea work was to use a multi-frequency sonar to chart and identify zooplankton that are associated with…