PMEL in the News
How much heat does the ocean trap? A robot aims to find out
A fleet of robots, trolling the oceans and measuring their heat content, has revolutionized scientists' ability to study how climate change is affecting the seas. Now the aquatic machines called Argo floats are going into the deepest ocean abyss.
Surprise! La Nina might be back after all
Buried in the news late last week amid the feverish coverage of Saturday's upcoming Disappointment Day Storm was word from NOAA that La Nina might be back. Their Climate Prediction Center reissued a La Nina Watch on Thursday, just a month after killing it off.
How a super typhoon got sucked into a jet stream and spawned the storm that’s barreling right for us
Typhoon Songda didn’t make much of a splash earlier this week when it swept harmlessly past the east coast of Japan, hundreds of miles from shore. So it seems incongruous that this waning tropical storm, born 5,000 miles away, now threatens Washington with a Saturday windstorm that could be one of the fiercest in recent history.
Official Roster of Teams, Advisory Board Announced in the $7M Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE
XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and managing incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, today announced a total of 32 teams from 22 countries will compete to win the $7M Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a three-year global competition challenging teams to advance ocean technologies for rapid, unmanned and high-resolution ocean exploration and discovery. An Advisory Board of leading experts in the fields of oceanography, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), underwater technologies and imagery, also announced today, will advise the Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.
New technologies – and a dash of whale poop – help scientists monitor whale health
A lot of people think what Leigh Torres has done this summer and fall would qualify her for a spot on one of those “World’s Worst Jobs” lists. After all, the Oregon State University marine ecologist follows gray whales from a small inflatable boat in the rugged Pacific Ocean and waits for them to, well, poop.