An automatic measuring system called “FerryBox” was installed on a ferry travelling between Germany (Cuxhaven) and Great Britain (Harwich) enabling on-line oceanographic and biological measurements such as salinity, temperature, fluorescence, turbidity, oxygen, pH, and nutrient concentrations. Observations made along the ferry transect reveal characteristic phenomena such as high salinity inflo...

Morphologic and paleozoogeographic analysis of Cenozoic marine Ostracoda from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific indicates that climatic change modulates evolution by disrupting long-term stasis and catalyzing speciation during sustained, unidirectional climatic transitions and, conversely, by maintaining morphologic stasis during rapid, high-frequency climatic oscillations. In the middle Pli...

The long-term goal of the Quantifying, Predicting and Exploiting (QPE) Uncertainty DRI is to understand and exploit (if possible) the fundamental acoustic, oceanographic, bathymetric and geoacoustic uncertainties of the tactical naval environment, and demonstrate how they may be exploited tactically or strategically in an Exercise Area. Focussing on the seabed, our goals are to understand the f...

Citation: Otaño-Cruz A, Montañez-Acuña AA, Torres-López V, Hernández-Figueroa EM and Hernández-Delgado EA (2017) Effects of Changing Weather, Oceanographic Conditions, and Land Uses on Spatio-Temporal Variation of Sedimentation Dynamics along Near-Shore Coral Reefs. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:249. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00249 Effects of Changing Weather, Oceanographic Conditions, and Land Uses on Spat...

Our long-term goal is to develop novel oceanographic instrumentation to address fundamental questions in ocean optics. The primary goal of this project is to develop a holographic instrument capable of imaging and characterizing natural (i.e. undisturbed) particle fields in the ocean. The longterm science goal is to understand the link between suspended particles and the bulk scattering propert...

Two climatic signals are most significant in affecting oceanographic and estuarine processes in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Pacific North American (PNA). The NAO is closely related to the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and primarily affects temperature. The PNA has a well-described teleconnection with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and is dominantly an...

Coastal environment is controlled by a complex interaction of physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes. Physical processes are responsible for controlling the transport and distribution of all dissolved and suspended matters in coastal waters. A comprehensive understanding of these processes is crucial to the design and implementation of management strategies that track ecosyste...

Wind-driven upwelling in Pacific Panamá is a significant source of oceanographic variability in the tropical eastern Pacific. This upwelling system provides a critical teleconnection between the Atlantic and tropical Pacific that may impact climate variability on a global scale. Despite its importance to oceanographic circulation, ecology, and climate, little is known about the long-term stabil...

PSAMP Long-term Sediment Monitoring As part of the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program (PSAMP), the Washington State Department of Ecology sampled sediments at ten fixed stations each spring from 1989 through 2000 (Figure 1). Stations were chosen from a variety of habitats and geographic locations in Puget Sound. Sediments from each station were analyzed for particle size, organic carbon con...