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Illustration of eddy fields in the Atlantic Ocean
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Robot Explores Ocean Eddies

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The robotic glider Scarlet Knight
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Robotic Glider and Barnacles

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The arrows show the direction of ocean currents recorded by William Dampier while crossing “La Grande Mer du Sud”—the Pacific Ocean.
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Pacific Ocean Currents

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Hurricane Wind Pattern in Gulf of Mexico
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NOAA's Real Time Weather Mapping

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a rip current along a beach with a pier
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A Rip Current On the Shore

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A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will travel throughout the Gulf of Mexico and send GPS coordinates to researchers.
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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

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A student helps deploy one of his school's adopted drifters for NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program.
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NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program

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One-meter-tall plastic drifters are released into the Gulf of Mexico in 2012. Over 300 of these drifters were released and their location information was sent to researchers every five minutes through GPS satellite.
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Deploying GLAD Drifters

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The currents of the North Pacific gyre collect trash—mostly bits of microscopic plastic—into what are known as "garbage patches."
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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An algal bloom, also known as a red tide, has converted the ocean's surf to a red color
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Scientists Work to Predict and Prevent Algae Blooms

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A bloom of algae from up above
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What Exactly Is a Red Tide?

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The shell of a sea slug
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A Microscopic Identity Crisis

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