Featured Researcher: Tim Shank
The Bottom of the Ocean On Top of Your Coffee Table
Here’s a way to journey to the seafloor without leaving your living room or classroom. Five deep-sea scientists have created…
Read MoreAlvin‘s Fun Facts
Here are answers to some of the questions people have asked about the deep-sea research submersible in its first half-century.
Read MoreDo Oil and Corals Mix?
Scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) helped find strong evidence that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 had…
Read MoreOcean Explorers Probe Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico may be a source of food, fuel, and fun for millions of Americans, but vast reaches…
Read MoreOnce More Unto the Rift
In the beginning, there was the Garden of Eden. It was a lush primordial oasis of life, bursting with exotic…
Read MoreLife and Death in the Deep Sea
It was an experiment they hoped would never happen. But when it did, they were poised to respond. In 2008,…
Read MoreVolunteer Gets an Oceanful of Experience
It’s two in the morning, and I’m watching a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, explore previously unseen areas of the…
Read MoreEleanor Bors
While her Oberlin classmates were accepting their diplomas at their graduation ceremony back in Ohio, Eleanor Bors found herself on…
Read MoreCoral Catastrophe on the Corner Rise Seamounts
A research team has found that deep-sea coral communities that provide lush habitats for fish and other marine life were…
Read MorePhone Call Links Inner and Outer Space
Tim Shank and Sunita Williams placed one of the most unusual long-distance phone calls of all time on Jan. 26,…
Read MoreWhat Other Tales Can Coral Skeletons Tell?
In 2003, we traveled by ship to the New England Seamounts—a chain of extinct, undersea volcanoes about 500 miles off…
Read MoreOn the Seafloor, a Parade of Roses
Third generation of scientists finds third generation of hydrothermal vent sites.
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