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In 2004, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design and build a new, state-of-the-art 6500 meter research submersible to replace the HOV Alvin that has served the U.S. science community so reliably for the past four decades.
Isaac Held, Ph.D., a senior research scientist with the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., will receive the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his contributions to improved understanding of climate change and atmospheric circulation systems.
If you could tiptoe through the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies 500 million years ago, you’d come across a tulip-shaped sea creature that defies classification.
Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous system of sea fishes with serious consequences for their survival, an international scientific team has found.
Lessons from tens of millions of years ago are pointing to new ways to save and protect today’s coral reefs and their myriad of beautiful and many-hued fishes at a time of huge change in the Earth’s systems.
Might a penguin’s next meal be affected by the exhaust from your tailpipe? The answer may be yes, when you add your exhaust fumes to the total amount of carbon dioxide lofted into the atmosphere by humans since the industrial revolution.
A phytoplankton bloom traces a figure eight in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 373 miles (600 kilometers) east of the British-held Falkland Islands in a newly released satellite picture from the European Space Agency.
Today, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will attend the 7th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting. Clinton will be the first secretary of state to ever attend an Arctic Council meeting, underscoring its importance for achieving substantive agreements on the myriad challenges facing the region.
Most of the cliffs that you see bordering the south of England and the Normandy coast were built by deposition of sediments of shellfish that have grown in steady conditions of carbonate and CO2 available in the oceans at geological scale.
UK scientists have detected a huge dome of fresh water that is developing in the western Arctic Ocean.
Making Sure NOAA Stays Strong During Federal Reorganization
The staff here at Ocean Leadership works hard to make certain that each week we provide you with the most useful and timely information regarding our efforts, activities of the community, news from Capitol Hill, and all opportunities, jobs and internships that we feel you might find beneficial.