Oceanography News

Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Society explorer in residence and a noted scientist, oceanographer, environmental advocate and author, will address the graduating class at Wilson College's 143rd commencement ceremony at 1:30 p.m. today.

More than four out of five San Diegans are concerned about climate change, according to a newly released poll commissioned by a coalition of local universities and policy groups.

A surfer who was found dead near Tourmaline Surf Park Wednesday night was apparently bitten by a shark after he drowned, according to officials.

The big threat to Florida's future that elected leaders aren't talking about: the average amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center will host the 7th annual Survivor Beach onA Sunday, June 2. The event, which has become a La Jolla tradition, will feature a stand-upA paddleboard competition, beach festival with food trucks and more.

DARIEN, Conn. -- The YWCA hosted the fourth Annual Darien/Norwalk Women of Distinction Luncheon on Thursday at Woodway Country Club in Darien.

Red algea blooms reported in Sinclair Inlet and other areas of Puget Sound are harmless, the Department of Ecology says.

A fin whale is the second-largest animal after the blue whale. Researchers from the University of Washington have discovered that earthquake-detecting sensors off Vancouver Island also help monitor fin whale swimming patterns.

California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography says it will honor filmmaker and ocean explorer James Cameron with its Nierenberg science prize.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last week that carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii surpassed the milestone 400 parts per million for a sustained period.

Ninety-nine percent of all of Earth's land ice is locked up in the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

Coral reef health is the scientific specialty of Aaron Hartmann, a sixth year Ph.D. student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

This device, the brainchild of David Kline and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, is a minilab that helps researchers determine the effects climate change has on coral reefs.

Renowned explorer and filmmaker donates lander system that played key role in record-setting expedition and will be used by Scripps researchers as part of the next age of deep-sea exploration Ocean frontier explorer and world-renowned filmmaker James Cameron has been named by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as the recipient of ... (more)

The satellite image shows widespread snowfall in the UK in December 2010. Other areas in Europe experienced relatively warm and wet conditions at this time, despite a weak inflow of... Weather forecasters have a tougher job predicting winter conditions over Europe in some years over others, concludes a new study carried out by the National ... (more)

A team of experts has carried out extensive surveys of the seabed using special acoustic imaging equipment normally used to examine shipwrecks.

We went today on a five-hour Pacific Marine Research cruise through Puget Sound operated by MarineScienceAfloat.org and I highly recommend it.

Milestones are usually to be cheered, but not the one the world reached at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 9. For the first time in millions of years the level of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere reached above 400 parts per million.

On display at the Arctic Council meeting venue in Kiruna, Sweden: "The last shaman of Wrangler Island," a photo by Anastasiya Ilina.

Image Caption: Hawaiian petrels - both ancient and modern - show how drastically today's open seas fish menu has changed.