A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, ...

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

Researchers have discovered a dramatic and unexpected shift in the Southern Ocean, with surface water salinity rising and sea ...

Even during the coldest 750,000 years, the Arctic Ocean had open water and sustained life thanks to seasonal sea ice. “Our ...

Meanwhile, in the open ocean, rising sea surface temperatures and algal blooms are possibly impacting how light travels through the upper layers.

As the marine biologist Peter Herring said, we catch "only the slow, the stupid, the greedy, and the indestructible." But beneath the surface, an ancient, complex, and very serious game is going on.

A new study by an international team of researchers revealed that a rare and large summertime phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre in the summer of 2018 was prompted by ash ...

University of Delaware associate professor Andrew Wozniak co-led a research cruise aboard UD’s Research Vessel Hugh R. Sharp to study the sea surface microlayer in the North Atlantic Ocean. Pictured ...