Basking sharks can be over 30 feet long and are characterized by their enormous gill rakers and three-foot tall dorsal fins. But these mysterious, massive, filter-feeding cousins of the great white shark aren’t just a scientific curiosity – they also … Read more
Tag: Pacific ocean
Summer Issue 2017
The Open Ocean is the Last Frontier In Birding
Living tens, hundreds, even thousands of miles offshore, pelagic seabirds are some of the least understood and most threatened avian species in the world.
El Niño
Warm El Niño Water Meets a North Pacific Already Disrupted By The Blob
Scientists still aren’t sure what to make of what’s happened in the Pacific Ocean this year.
Climate Change, El Niño, Water
Today in El Niño Advice: Don’t Worry About The Blob
The Pacific Ocean is the hottest we’ve ever seen it. What that means — or doesn’t — for the coming El Niño.
Climate Change
Connecting the Dots for Pacific Marine Life
National Park Service ecologist Sarah Allen has been looking at the “big picture” of marine ecosystem health since the mid-1970s when she worked as a field biologist on the Farallon Islands, then later in the ’80s and ’90s tracking seabirds, … Read more
Stewardship
High tech robots may launch new era in ocean exploration
Four surfboard-sized vehicles set sail off the coast of the San Francisco Bay on Thursday in an attempt to break world records in ocean exploration and robotics. The “wave gliders” will, if successful, traverse the longest distance of any unmanned ocean craft as they cross the Pacific Ocean.
Summer Issue 2009
Turning Back the Plastic Tide
An innovative program uses albatrosses as “winged ambassadors” to help middle school students learn about the distant consequences of plastics that end up in our ocean.
