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Line W: A 10-Year Portrait of Our Planet

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

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Robot Explores Ocean Eddies

The first unmanned, underwater robot or glider Scarlet Knight maneuvers through the...

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NOAA's Real Time Weather Mapping

A screen capture from NOAA's NowCoast website which displays real-time weather...

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Deep Lights

Students compare and contrast the various methods (chemiluminescence,...

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The Cultural Icescapes of the Arctic

Sea ice is typically viewed as the domain of physical and natural scientists, the...

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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

In the frigid Arctic Ocean, a mysterious toothed whale—the narwhal— resides...

Personal Perspectives

Five Questions with Uta Passow, How An Oil Spill Affects the Movement of Carbon In the Ocean

There are millions of tiny drifting plants in the sunlit ocean, called...

Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada

For over a decade, Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center archaeologist, William...

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Underwater Robots Explore the Ocean

Glider Technology Now Used to Study Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico The first...