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Popular Oceanography Items
Who Owns The Arctic?
Who Owns The Arctic?
USGS estimates that 25% of all new oil & gas will be found in the Arctic.
Asphalt "Volcanoes"
Asphalt "Volcanoes":
Oil seeps built large asphalt "volcanoes" in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Tsunami Causes
What Causes a Tsunami?
Learn how plate motions trigger earthquakes and tsunamis.
Sea Level Rise Map
Sea Level Rise Map
: A Google map that shows where flooding will occur when sea level rises.
Deepest Ocean Trench
Deepest Part of the Ocean
: The Mariana Trench is the deepest point in Earth's oceans.
Large Bone Deposit
The World's Richest and Most Extensive Marine Bone Deposit
: How did this amazing bed form?
World Record Dive
Exploring the Mariana Trench:
A robotic vehicle dives 6.8 miles down - a new world record!
Draw Plate Tectonics
Teaching Plate Tectonics with Easy-to-Draw Illustrations
: Students love to draw. Take advantage of that in a draw-with-me lesson.
Sand Photography
A Gallery of Sand
: Sand from around the world photographed by Dr. Gary Greenberg.
Gulf Oil Spill
Gulf Oil Spill:
News stories, images and videos document the Deep Water Horizon spill.
Drilling To The Moho
Drilling to Earth's Mantle:
New drilling technology for the Moho.
Atlantic Tsunamis
Atlantic Ocean Tsunamis:
Rare events that can cause damage and threaten millions of people.
Deepest Volcano
Deepest Volcano:
Erupting 4000 feet below the Pacific's surface.
Ocean Rifting On Land
Ocean Rifting on Land:
A new rift in Ethiopia is analogous to an ocean basin rift.
Submarine Volcano
Submarine Volcano:
A study of the eruption, water chemistry and sea life.
Stromatolites
What Are Stromatolites?
Learn how they form. Will they be found in the rocks of Mars?
Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Tsunamis:
Sediment drilling finds four waves in 3500 years.
Pacific Tsunami Threat
Pacific Tsunami Threat:
Alaska earthquakes can impact the Pacific Basin.
Bathyscaphe Trieste
Bathyscaphe Trieste:
Diving to the deepest part of the ocean in 1960.
Newest Oceanography Items
Arctic Ocean Seafloor
Arctic Ocean Seafloor Map
: The ridges, basins, shelves and rifts defining the Arctic seafloor.
Iron for Ocean Life
Hydrothermal Vents
exhale tiny pyrite particles that are important sources of iron for ocean life.
Plankton
The Role of Plankton
in the development of Earth's first breathable atmosphere.
Beach Landforms
Beach Landforms
are described for the New England and Mid-Atlantic coasts.
Protecting Coral Reefs
Coral Reefs
throughout the world are threatened by fishing, tourism and climate change.
Indian Ocean Tsunamis
Indian Ocean Tsunamis:
Deadly tsunamis triggered by earthquakes and volcanoes.
Coring a Supervolcano
Seafloor Supervolcanoes:
Drilling Shatsky Rise for data on mass extinction.
Sulawesi Sea
Sulawesi Sea:
Submarine volcanoes, hydrothermal vents and deep marine biodiversity.
Arctic Ocean Map
Arctic Ocean Map
: A physical map of the Arctic Ocean.
Ocean Chemistry
Monitoring Ocean Chemistry
with Argo floats that collect and transmit data by satellite.
Giant Seamounts
Giant Seamounts
are being mapped for the first time in the South Atlantic Ocean by Scripps.
Do Hotspots Move?
Do Hotspots Move?
Researchers drill hotspots to determine if they move.
Lö'ihi Seamount
Lö'ihi Seamount
is a submarine volcano that could become an island in the Hawaiian Chain.
Antarctic Carbon Flow
Southern Ocean Carbon Flow:
A swift release of carbon dioxide at the end of the ice age?
Pacific Tsunamis
Pacific Tsunamis:
This ocean is surrounded by plate boundaries, that can produce tsunami.
Arctic Deltas
Climate Change Data From Arctic Deltas
: Valuable new data from sediment cores.
Coastal Wetland Loss
Most Coastal Wetlands
will disappear this century under a rapid sea-level rise model.
