Posts Tagged ‘national oceanography centre’

Keeping watch on a changing ocean

December 11th, 2009 by Ari Daniel Shapiro | Filed in Ocean Gazing Podcast
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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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Autonomous, enormous, ingenious

July 24th, 2009 by Ari Daniel Shapiro | Filed in Ocean Gazing Podcast
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Autosubs look like giant yellow torpedoes. They cruise the ocean silently. But they’re watching, listening, probing, and measuring everything as they go.

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