Features

: Carlie Wiener and Kate Herries; Posted On March 26, 2019

New Underwater Worlds

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

: ECO; Posted On March 26, 2019

Descending into the Five Deeps

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

: Travis Richards; Posted On March 26, 2019

Deep-Sea Foodwebs: It’s Complicated

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...

: Heather Ritchie; Posted On March 26, 2019

Extreme Adaptation: Surviving in the Hadal Zone

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

Protecting Changing Oceans

Ecological Forecasts to Improve Fisheries Sustainability

: Jorge G. Álvarez-Romero; Posted On March 26, 2019

The Conservation Planning Database

A new global database to better guide marine conservation efforts

: Dawn J. Wright; Posted On March 26, 2019

Mapping the Sea's Natural Defense Against Climate Change

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

: Carlie Wiener; Posted On March 26, 2019

Underwater Paradigm Shift

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

Improving the Global Ocean Observing System: Challenges and Way Forward

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

: ECO; Posted On March 25, 2019

In the Field of Ocean Sound

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

: Rose Fisher and Kira Coley; Posted On March 25, 2019

The Soundscape of St. Lawrence

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

: Cheryl Lyn Dybas; Posted On March 25, 2019

The Last Spirit Bears

An enormous decline of wild Pacific Salmon in Northwest America has meant that only a few hundred Spirit bears (also known as Kermode bears) now...