PURS-2 continues a legacy of experiments focused on the dance between the atmosphere and ocean.
The Autonomous Platform Revolution
There is a robotic revolution going on in oceanography.
A Drifter Experiment Goes South
Sometimes the technology of the lab and the concept of an experiment run afoul of reality and the sea.
What Day Is It Anyway?
Life on an oceanographic research vessel is definitely different than daily life ashore.
A Career in Physical Oceanography
Eric Lindstrom passed up rocks and geology to pursue oceanography, a path that ultimately landed him at NASA.
The Upper Meter of the Ocean
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.
The Lost Bird Blues
There is something about being at sea, totally surrounded by blue sea and blue sky that demands blogging about blue.
Plastic, Plastic, Where is All Our Plastic?
Recent calculations project that by 2050 there be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
Learning with Lasers
Lasers can help scientists get a qualitative measure of the increases and decreases of mixing at the ocean surface.