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PHOTO Pacific Ocean Currents The arrows show the direction of ocean currents recorded by William Dampier while crossing “La Grande Mer du Sud”—the Pacific Ocean. The map appeared in Dampier’s second book, Voyages and De...MORE PHOTOS


	VIDEO MORE VIDEOS The Gulf Oil Spill: Effects on Marine Life The Deepwater Horizon disaster has imperiled the ecosystem along the U.S. Gulf C...
	PHOTO MORE PHOTOS Robot Explores Ocean Eddies The first unmanned, underwater robot or glider Scarlet Knight maneuvers through...
	PHOTO MORE PHOTOS Red Tide In the ocean, microscopic forms of algae, known as dinoflagellates, can "bloom"...

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					The Great Pacific Garbage Patch May 6, 2013 - 8:10AMThe “garbage patches,” as referred to in the media, are areas of marine debris concentration in the North Pacific Ocean, circulated by the North Pacific gyre. The gyre spreads across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the western US...

NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program

Apr 20, 2012 - 12:50PM

NOAA is working with students across the globe to place floating buoys...

Line W: A 10-Year Portrait of Our Planet

Dec 16, 2011 - 4:37PM

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's "Line W" program is conducting...

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Tracking volcanic rock to the shores of Belize As a geological oceanographer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Dr. Maggie Toscano has made a career...

Ocean Trash Plaguing Our Sea Sep 20 2011 - 11:52am In the Pacific Ocean, four ocean currents merge to form the North Pacific gyre, also known as the North Pacific Subtropical High, which spans the western US to Japan, and Hawaii to California.	Mapping the Pumice Journey Aug 27 2012 - 12:14pm But what path, precisely, did this pumice take to reach Belize from the Guatemalan Highlands? Maps of drainage networks that reach the Gulf of Honduras and currents in the western Caribbean Sea are important for describing how the pumice could have been transported. The Río Motagua and Río Dulce...
Saving Venice, Italy Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am To protect Venice from rising seas, Dimitri Deheyn (Scripps Institution/UC San Diego Sediment Research Group) studied the environmental impact of dredging sediment from the waterways. Managers worldwide can apply the findings from the Venice, Italy, study to other threatened estuaries and wetlands...	NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program Apr 20 2012 - 12:50pm NOAA is working with students across the globe to place floating buoys throughout the ocean through their Adopt a Drifter Program. The buoys will drift with the help of ocean currents and record the sea surface temperature and location of the buoy as they travel. The information gained from the...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch May 6 2013 - 8:10am The “garbage patches,” as referred to in the media, are areas of marine debris concentration in the North Pacific Ocean, circulated by the North Pacific gyre. The gyre spreads across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the western US, and north-south from California to Hawaii. Its total size isn't well...	Underwater Robots Explore the Ocean Oct 29 2010 - 4:01pm CREDIT: Provided by Rutgers University Glider Technology Now Used to Study Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico The first underwater robotic vehicle—or “glider”—to cross an ocean is the centerpiece of a new temporary exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The U.S. Integrated...
Ship Under a Bridge Jan 14 2011 - 12:34pm Ocean conditions change every hour of every day. Tides, currents, and winds are constantly in flux. NOAA’s real-time data helps huge ships navigate safely under bridges and around obstacles. Explore other videos that capture the beauty and mystery of the ocean realm at NOAA Ocean Today	NOAA's Real Time Weather Mapping Jun 4 2010 - 12:02pm A screen capture from NOAA's NowCoast website which displays real-time weather data, including current speeds, projected hazards, temperature and wind speed.
Scientists Work to Predict and Prevent Algae Blooms Jul 5 2011 - 6:20pm Algae, like all organisms, normally grow in balance with their ecosystems, limited by the amount of nutrients in the water. But sometimes, certain species of algae reproduce so rapidly that they cause damage. In the ocean, microscopic forms of algae can "bloom" into dense patches near the surface,...	The Gulf Oil Spill: Effects on Marine Life Jun 9 2010 - 3:48pm The Deepwater Horizon disaster has imperiled the ecosystem along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Most oil spills have occurred at the ocean surface. This one, originating at the ocean floor and rising up through the water column, has the potential to affect the marine environment at every level. More about...
Robotic Ocean Explorer Dec 8 2010 - 1:08pm This is the world’s first unmanned, underwater robot—or “glider”—to cross an ocean basin, the pioneering Scarlet Knight. The robotic glider, also known as RU27, can dive to depths of 200 meters (660 feet) to collect data such as temperature, how salty the water is, and the speed and direction of...	Pacific Ocean Currents Jul 9 2010 - 1:41pm The arrows show the direction of ocean currents recorded by William Dampier while crossing “La Grande Mer du Sud”—the Pacific Ocean. The map appeared in Dampier’s second book, Voyages and Descriptions, published in early 1699.
Pumice: Just Scratching the Surface Aug 27 2012 - 11:34am	Tracking volcanic rock to the shores of Belize Aug 24 2012 - 3:57pm
Robotic Glider and Barnacles Dec 8 2010 - 12:54pm Scientists met the robotic glider Scarlet Knight about halfway along its journey of scientific exploration from the United States to Spain, discovering that barnacles were growing on the glider’s body, as this graphic illustrates. As algae began to grow on the glider’s exterior surface, small sea...	Science in a Time of Crisis: Tracking the Currents May 10 2011 - 3:44pm Part 5 of a 6-part series describing Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's efforts to understand the scope and impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. "Tracking the Currents" follows work by WHOI's Breck Owens to deploy an autonomous underwater glider to map and monitor...