What's Current in
Ocean and Beaches
On the water and on the sand, our research explores ocean health and evolution so we can better understand how to protect and preserve the largest area of Earth.
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Darrin Allen © NOAA Permit #26532
The new technology will detect whales by sensing the heat of their blows with thermal imaging
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Eutrophication — caused by excessive nutrients, such as fertilizer runoff — causes a bloom of algae that depletes the water of oxygen and causes 'dead zones' that kill fish and other marine organisms
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Elena Zhukova
There’s a cacophony of acoustic signals below the range of human hearing, many quite intense, that you can pick up with the right “ears.”
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David Huang
San Dieguito Lagoon, one of Beheshti’s primary research sites.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
Monitoring fishing activity far from shore presents a challenge for resource management and marine conservation.
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A commercial fishing vessel near Kodiak Island, Alaska
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Matt Perko
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Cargo vessel congestion at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex during the COVID pandemic
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Geospatial information about how women use the ocean is an important part of marine spatial planning, but tends to be hidden in the data
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Merry Passage
Southern California’s population of giant sea bass is recovering from overfishing, but progress is slow.
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Melody Jue
A scuba diver pictured with a colony of soft corals in Fiji, 2020