The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is allowing researchers to directly observe small-scale ocean processes across the globe for the first time. An eddy is like a mini whirlpool in ...
In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to ...
The ocean is saturated with microplastics. While we know the location of the great garbage patches, where plastic particles ...
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 mapped ...
A new paper from an international team of more than 50 researchers, including four from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, proposes the creation of a global observing network of ...