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View over open ocean water with clouds tinted pink by a sunrise and a distant, lone mountain on the horizon
Posted inScience Updates

“Landslide Graveyard” Holds Clues to Long-Term Tsunami Trends

by Suzanne Bull, Sally J. Watson, Jess Hillman, Hannah E. Power and Lorna J. Strachan 3 June 20221 August 2022

A new project looks to unearth information about and learn from ancient underwater landslides buried deep beneath the seafloor to support New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards.

A school of anchovies swims in shallow water in the Bahamas.
Posted inNews

Tiny Creatures May Play a Difficult-to-Detect Role in Ocean Mixing

by Carolyn Wilke 20 May 20222 June 2022

As an idea that began as a joke, critter-driven ocean mixing has long been controversial. Now scientists have caught spawning anchovies causing turbulence and stirring the sea.

Autonomous underwater vehicle being loaded onto a ship
Posted inNews

Groundwater Flow May Contribute to Submarine Permafrost Thaw

by Jack Lee 18 May 202231 May 2022

New, detailed surveys from the Beaufort Sea reveal a seafloor depression the size of a city block associated with permafrost thaw and likely influenced by the movement of groundwater below.

Plastic water bottles and trash on a beach
Posted inNews

Microscopic Hitchhikers Found on Deep-Sea Plastic

by Jenessa Duncombe 10 May 202210 May 2022

Are bacteria hailing a ride on plastic 2,000 meters deep?

Three red saildrones with built-in solar panels float in a line in the water beside a dock.
Posted inFeatures

An Unprecedented View Inside a Hurricane

by Gregory R. Foltz, Chidong Zhang, Christian Meinig, Jun A. Zhang and Dongxiao Zhang 6 May 202223 June 2022

To improve future tropical cyclone forecasts, researchers sent a remotely operated saildrone into the extreme winds and towering waves around the eye of a category 4 hurricane.

Three figures from the paper showing a map of bedrock channels on the seafloor, an image of a remotely-operated vehicle, and an image of potholes.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Observations Reveal Ancient Subglacial Water Paths

by Olga Sergienko 13 April 20222 August 2022

Analyses of new shipboard and ROV observations of bedrock channels carved by floods and outbursts from subglacial lakes under Antarctica shed light on complex subglacial processes.

Close-up view of a piloted submersible with headlights on diving underwater amid a school of fish
Posted inOpinions

Deep-Sea Exploration Could Help Us Fight the Next Pandemic

by Nathan J. Robinson 25 March 202215 July 2022

Deep-ocean-dwelling microbes may hold keys to improved medical diagnostics and new drugs for fighting diseases. But we must search Earth’s most extreme habitats to find them.

SOCCOM float observing system with ship track, float trajectories, and communication of the float data back to land.
Posted inFeatures

A Global Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory Becomes a Reality

by Oscar Schofield, Andrea Fassbender, Maria Hood, Katherine Hill and Ken Johnson 17 March 202217 March 2022

Building on the successful Argo network of seafaring temperature and salinity sensors, work is underway to deploy 1,000 floats equipped to study ocean biogeochemistry in greater detail than ever.

Aerial view looking over a coastal island city
Posted inFeatures

A Cagey Approach to Speedy and Safe Seafloor Deployments

by Pascal Pelleau, Ronan Apprioual, Antony Ferrant and Daniel Aslanian 11 March 20221 June 2022

Researchers devised a simple way to deliver ocean bottom seismometers accurately to the seafloor to study ongoing seismic and volcanic activity near the islands of Mayotte.

The voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa sails with Cape Town, South Africa, in the background.
Posted inNews

Navigating the Pacific with Wind, Waves, and Stars

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 24 February 202224 February 2022

Ancient Polynesian voyagers sailed thousands of kilometers with no maps or compasses; they followed nature’s clues. Using the same tools, the Moananuiākea Voyage will set sail from Alaska and circle the Pacific.

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