A new network of storm-tide brackets installed by USGS this past summer allowed for the swift installation of over 30 brackets to provide quick and reliable data on Hurricane Michael.
Although most welcome spring with open arms, warmer months tend to bring increased algal growth. Algal blooms not only affect the water in which they bloom, but they also affect the organisms in and around that water.
Over the course of the 2017/18 southern hemisphere summer, 20 miniDOT loggers were deployed by researchers from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in Hamilton, New Zealand.
When the news of a hurricane hits the headlines, like it did so many times this past year, individuals begin rushing around prepping to evacuate or to batten down the hatches to weather out the storm.
If you find yourself wondering how the ocean’s health impacts yours, a better question to ask yourself might be, how does it not directly affect your own?
Debris-strewn beaches, seabird skeletons filled with plastic bottle caps, turtles deformed by six-pack rings: These are familiar images of plastic pollution.
As the people of Houston and the Gulf Coast begin to recover what was not destroyed by Hurricane Harvey, meteorologists are astonished by the power and scale of Hurricane Irma.