The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is a wake-up call and a motivation to manage the ocean sustainably.Read More »Climate Change
Runoff from the Greenland ice sheet’s high elevations could double by 2100, thanks to solid layers of ice hiding just beneath the surface.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Improved transdisciplinary approaches are needed to ensure that research on rising seas is useful for planning in coastal communities.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Sargassum and other brown algae might be an underappreciated contributor of organic compounds called polyphenols to the open ocean.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
A new software application merges ocean color data from instruments aboard two satellites to provide gap-free, near-real-time monitoring of the global ocean environment.Read More »Biogeosciences
Coordinating the Implementation of Mangrove and Seagrass Essential Observations: A joint GOOS/MBON community outreach workshop to implement EOV/EBVs (Sea Plants Workshop), Consortium for Ocean Leadership; Washington, D.C., 10–11 June 2019Read More »Ocean Sciences
New research suggests that combining ship- and float-based observations provides a more accurate measure of how much carbon the Southern Ocean absorbs.Read More »Ocean Sciences
A team of scientists sailed around the world to catalog the diversity of plankton species in the ocean. Their findings have important economic implications as climate warms.Read More »
