PMEL in the News
Tracking ‘marine heatwaves’ since 1950 – and how the ‘blob’ stacks up
Unusually warm oceans can have widespread effects on marine ecosystems. Warm patches off the Pacific Northwest from 2013 to 2015, and a couple of years earlier in the Atlantic Ocean, affected everything from sea lions to fish migrations to coastal weather.
Severe drought, salinization forecast to continue in April
Heat and severe saltwater intrusion look set to continue to dominate Vietnam’s weather conditions next month, given the current impact of El Niño.
Peruvian Navy Uses Buoys Provided by United States to Monitor El Niño
Peru’s Navy recently placed 12 profiling buoys in the Pacific Ocean in an effort to help prevent the damaging effects of the El Niño climate phenomenon.
Tsunami risks, plans catch senator’s ear
LONG BEACH — U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., listened March 19 to an alarming assessment of how the Long Beach Peninsula may be devastated by a future tsunami, while also learning of preliminary steps being planned to help residents and tourists survive.
Deep-Diving Robots will Plunge 16,000 Feet to Monitor the Ocean Abyss
Of all the environments on our planet, the deep ocean is still pretty much unknown. Scientists like to say that we’ve mapped more of the Moon than we have of our ocean floor. But there’s a growing need to monitor the ocean’s abyss, which is warming in response to climate change...