By Lundie Spence, COSEE SE
For almost two days, we have had lively brainstorming to understand our individual systems. Both our US and Chinese colleagues face similar opportunities and challenges to get researchers engaged in outreach. Our COSEE strategies are considered interesting. Learning about each other is exciting. Dr Min Liu from [...]

Eight of us took the 13-hour flight from Newark to Beijing earlier today. We arrived 6 hours ago and have now all checked into the hotel. Xuchen found out about a delicious restaurant where we dined tonight. All of us are WIPED and ready for bed! More soon, once we’re rested.

Playing female right whale calls into the water, researcher Susan Parks suddenly finds herself at the center of attention of a group of males.

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Tags: Bay of Fundy, Encyclopedia of Life, eubalaena glacialis, Podcast of Life, right whale, scott kraus, susan parks

This Friday I head to China with 14 other COSEE members! We’re visiting Beijing, Xiamen and Qingdao to participate in a workshop discussing the possibility of establishing a COSEE-China. I’m really looking forward to the trip, though I have a lot to do before I leave like packing (!), backing up my hard [...]

Tags: China

Little floats with GPS units are coursing all over the eastern seaboard, and they’re rousing community college students and lobstermen from bed at the earliest of hours.

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Tags: brian tarbox, catherine chipman, drifters, drogue, gulf of maine, jim manning, kara la lomia, NOAA, portland, SMCC, southern maine community college, tom long

Living 1000 miles from the ocean is no reason to keep from learning everything you can about the high seas. At least that’s what high schoolers all over Wisconsin are saying.

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Tags: clara mohammed high school, lake sturgeon bowl, milwaukee, national ocean sciences bowl, newman catholic high school, NOSB, WATER institute, wausau, wisconsin

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current courses through the Southern hemisphere, cooling down and getting heavier all the while. And for the first time, this current gets its own musical scoring.

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Tags: antarctic circumpolar current, antarctic intermediate water, lynne talley, scripps

What color would you paint the oceans on our planet? Blue? Try green. At least that’s what a NASA satellite 450 miles above our heads is telling us to do.

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Tags: chlorophyll, gene feldman, NASA, phytoplankton, SeaWiFS

Last April, a 6 foot, 120 pound robot called RU27 left the coast of New Jersey with a mission to be the first remote controlled vehicle to traverse the Atlantic Ocean underwater. Here’s the story of whether it made that world record.

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Tags: Atlantic Crossing, COOL room, David Kaminsky, Ethan Handel, Glider, investigador, Josh Kohut, RU27, rutgers university, Shannon Harrison

When the tiniest of particles settle onto the deepest of ocean bottoms, they can have the biggest of influences. Fisheries collapse. Tsunamis. Ecosystem shifts. But how do you look at the ocean’s entire vertical swath at once?

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Tags: biogeochemistry, kate larkin, national oceanography centre, observatories, outreach, porcupine abyssal plain, richard lampitt, southampton, water column