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NOAA, NASA and Old Dominion Researchers Measure Impacts of Changing Climate on Ocean Biology

A three-year field program now underway is measuring carbon distributions and primary productivity in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean to help scientists worldwide…

More than 1: Long-reigning microbe controlling ocean nitrogen shares the throne

Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.New…

New research shows fishery management practices for beluga sturgeon must change

A first-of-its-kind study of a Caspian Sea beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) fishery demonstrates current harvest rates are four to five times higher than those that…

Exposing How Sea Turtle Hatchlings Move Quickly on Sand

While these turtles’ limbs are adapted for a life at sea, their flippers enable excellent mobility over dune grass, rigid obstacles and sand of varying…

Tides, Earth's rotation among sources of giant underwater waves

Scientists at the University of Rhode Island are gaining new insight into the mechanisms that generate huge, steep underwater waves that occur between layers…

Optical system promises to revolutionize undersea communications

Along with the “transfer [of] real-time video from un-tethered [submerged] vehicles” up to support vessels on the surface, “this combination of capabilities…

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