A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

A 3D ocean plastic problems For years, marine plastic researchers investigated the surface garbage patches concentrated by slow-moving gyres. Those rotating currents still host prodigious amounts of ...

Learn how ocean currents and warm-core eddies drive big-game sport fisheries worldwide. Discover how real-time satellite data, bathymetric features, and boundary currents shape ideal conditions for ...

This gyre could begin forming around mid-May and extend into adjacent parts of the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, laying the groundwork for wetter conditions and isolated storm ...

Gyres act like massive, slow-moving whirlpools that trap and concentrate floating debris – especially plastic. Microplastics are becoming a measurable part of the ocean’s carbon cycle, making up just ...

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have ...

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just “scratching the surface,” to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time ...

Positive trends in the Southern Annular Mode and the South Atlantic Ocean subtropical gyre intensified wind stress curl and Ekman transport. If global warming continues and the Southern Annular Mode ...

Final Joint Ocean Ice Study 2016 cruise map (Sept. 22-Oct. 18, 2016)”. Courtesy of Chief Scientist Sarah Zimmermann. As I said back in my first blog entry, one of the key objectives of the expedition ...

The Beaufort Gyre is a slowly-rotating icy body of water north of Alaska (see map), which covers an area roughly ten times the size of Lake Michigan and stores a significant fraction of the Arctic ...

The ocean is a central component of Earth’s climate system. But it is in perpetual motion, and understanding the transfer of kinetic energy is key to better ocean models.