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Battle for the Deep Seafloor

Human interest in the marine environment originally focused on the highly productive coastal zone, where food and energy resources were readily...

Upside-down waterfalls, underwater lakes and calcite caverns awaited the science team as they sought to reveal the hidden secret of one of the...

An adventurer’s dream is a simple one, be curious; challenge everything, ask questions, explore the unknown.

Due to its vast size and depth, the deep-pelagic ocean (200 meters and below) helps maintain the health of the planet by playing a role in carbon...

The ocean is divided into multiple depth zones; epipelagic (0-200m) mesopelagic (200-1000m), bathyal (1000-4000m), abyssal (4000-6000m) and the...

: Heather Welch, Elliott Hazen, and Stephanie Brodie; Posted On March 26, 2019

Ecological Forecasts to Improve Fisheries Sustainability

A new global database to better guide marine conservation efforts

Location intelligence is helping scientists understand how to protect an important marine ally in combating global warming.

How advancing technologies are changing the way scientists study the ocean

: Patricia Miloslavich, Nic Bax, Samantha Simmons, Daniel Dunn and Albert Fischer; Posted On March 26, 2019

The more we use the ocean, the more it changes.

Understanding the impacts of underwater sound is becoming increasingly vital with human-derived sound on the rise in our coastal zones and blue...

Yellow buoys bob in the chilly water of a fjord near Canada’s St. Lawrence Estuary.