While ocean moorings are often described as autonomous observing platforms, the human ingenuity required to deploy and recover them demands a steady human with a tight grip.
For the first time, Operation IceBridge flights to Antarctica are being staged from Ushuaia, Argentina.
PURS-2 continues a legacy of experiments focused on the dance between the atmosphere and ocean.
There is a robotic revolution going on in oceanography.
Sometimes the technology of the lab and the concept of an experiment run afoul of reality and the sea.
Life on an oceanographic research vessel is definitely different than daily life ashore.
Eric Lindstrom passed up rocks and geology to pursue oceanography, a path that ultimately landed him at NASA.
Gathering detailed information on the temperature, salinity, and turbulence structure in the upper meter of the ocean is notoriously difficult to do directly from a ship.
There is something about being at sea, totally surrounded by blue sea and blue sky that demands blogging about blue.
