Deep-sea Glider
The first robot to cross the Atlantic offers new possibilities for ocean and climate research. Read more
Glider Completes Historic Ocean Crossing: New Technology Advances Climate Understanding
The first-ever 7,300-mile Atlantic Ocean crossing by an unmanned underwater glider is opening up a new world of ocean technology. Read more
NOPP Holds Roundtable Discussions at Oceans ’09 Conference
NOPP attended the Oceans ’09 conference in Biloxi, Mississippi from 26-29 October. Read more
Monmouth University President Takes on New Role
For the better part of three decades, Paul G. Gaffney II toured the world’s oceans — above and below — as one of the U.S. Navy’s most respected oceanographers. Read more
MMS Funding Expedition to Study Deepwater Coral Habitats
A joint expedition funded by MMS and NOAA to study the distribution and abundance of deepwater coral habitats in the Gulf of Mexico recently departed from Key West, Florida. This project is conducted under the auspices of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program. Read more
Monmouth University President Assumes Leadership Role of Federal Advisory Committee
Monmouth University is pleased to announce that on August 12 President Paul G. Gaffney II was named the new chair of the Ocean Research & Resources Advisory Panel (ORAP), a panel created by statute to advise federal agencies regarding ocean science and management matters. Read more
NOPP Special Issue of Oceanography
As part of the continued celebration of the first ten years of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), the current issue of Oceanography magazine highlights ocean research conducted through NOPP and the downstream impacts of ocean partnerships on the field of oceanography. Read more
Ocean Carbon: A Dent in the Iron Hypothesis
Oceanographers Jim Bishop and Todd Wood of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have measured the fate of carbon particles originating in plankton blooms in the Southern Ocean. Read more
Cold-Water Corals: Deepwater Coral Expedition in the Gulf of Mexico
The search for domestic energy sources is progressing to great depths in the Gulf of Mexico. As economic interests move oil and gas operations into these previously unexplored areas, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) works to increase understanding of the organisms residing at these depths. Read more
MMS Underway with $3.7 Million Deepwater Coral Study
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has begun a $3.7 million, four-year study of deepwater corals in the Gulf of Mexico. The study contract, which focuses on deepwater coral communities that have formed both naturally and on oil and gas platforms and shipwrecks, was awarded to TDI International Inc. Read more