For more than 20 years, about 4,000 autonomous profiling floats have been drifting through the ocean. They form part of the ...

The first five years (2019–2024) of operations of The Ocean Cleanup's Automated Debris Imaging System (ADIS) have been ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — According to scientists, the ocean is protecting us from some of the worst effects of climate change, absorbing more than 90% of the heat from human-caused global warming and about ...

MOSS LANDING, California—Microscopic marine life plays a fundamental role in the health of the ocean and, ultimately, the planet. Just like plants on land, tiny phytoplankton use photosynthesis to ...

Robotic floats can continuously collect data about ocean conditions. Credit: 2022 MBARI The study, titled "BGC-Argo float reveals shifts in nitrogen-carbon cycling in an oxygen-deficient zone," is ...

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Marine life plays a pivotal role in Earth's carbon cycle. Phytoplankton at the base of the aquatic food web take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, convert it to organic carbon, and move it around ...

Since the 1990s, scientists have deployed thousands of robotic floats equipped with temperature and salinity sensors in the ocean as part of an international effort called the Argo program. These ...

UW oceanography professor Stephen Riser, left, and a colleague drop a float in the Southern Ocean in 2017 in order to collect chemical, physical and biological observations as part of the SOCCOM ...

Sargassum plants are a nuisance on some beaches, but they are a shelter and a feast for a complex and amazing variety of ...

Researchers demonstrated how a fleet of robotic floats can revolutionize our understanding of ocean primary productivity. Microscopic marine life plays a fundamental role in the health of the ocean ...