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Expedition Directory -
Marine Studies |
| expedition costa rica | | During the summer of 2015, the Program of Maritime Studies of East Carolina conducted a field class in Costa Rica to explore the maritime culture of the settlement of Cahuita and Puerto Viejo located ... |
| | Duration : Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 |
| cetacean monitoring program | | Monitoring of the offshore and coastal seas has historically been carried out at fixed estuarine and coastal sites during periodic surveys. Although providing good spatial coverage, sampling frequency... |
| | Duration : Jan 2017 - Jan 2017 |
| | Duration : Sep 2016 - Mar 2017 |
| emodnet biology | | EMODnet Biology provides free access to data on the temporal and spatial distribution of marine species and species traits from all European regional seas. EMODnet Biology recognises that everyone col... |
| | Duration : Apr 2017 - Jun 2017 |
| | Duration : Jan 2017 - Jan 2017 |
| north sea expeditions 2017 | | The North Sea covers an area of 750 000 km2 . Although ranges in depth from 30 to 725 metres, most of the area is quite shallow, with an average depth of only 90 m. It is considered one of the most pr... |
| | Duration : Jan 2017 - Jul 2017 |
| tara pacific 2016-2018 | | The research schooner Tara will leave her home port of Lorient on May 28th 2016 for a new expedition in the Asian Pacific. The boat will sail nearly 100,000 km around the Pacific Ocean for more than t... |
| | Duration : Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 |
| sperm whale conservation | | Sperm whales feed mainly on large squid, which they find plunging down to more than 2km depth, where they can stay for over an hour! Sperm whales are the largest of the Odontoceti (toothed whales), me... |
| | Duration : Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 |
| atlantic and mediterranean expeditions | | The Oceana Ranger is a vital piece of Oceana’s campaign work in Europe. Custom-made in 1986 as a hospital ship, the Oceana Ranger was donated to Oceana by board member Steve McAllister. Since then, ... |
| | Duration : Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 |
| coastal and marine ecosystem science | | Maintaining healthy and sustainable coastal and marine ecosystems relies on scientific understanding of how these areas function across landscape scales. Ecosystem-scale science addresses understandin... |
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News
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What's the diving like around the UK?
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The UK has some fabulous diving in her seas, not least on the hundreds of wrecks. There is also beautiful marine life and at times stunning visibility. Discover the secret dives of Britain. ... |
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Diving Madagascar: is it any good?
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Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, hosts one of the world's longest continuous coral reefs. The country is famous for her unique land animals, but her seas are also full of life not found anywhere else. And she doesn't... |
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Sawfish Have Virgin Births: First in the Wild
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he first known virgin births in the wild have been documented among critically endangered smalltooth sawfish in Florida waters. The discovery, reported in the journal Current Biology, marks the first time that living offspring fro... |
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Why Does an Octopus Walk Funny?
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Octopuses move with a simple elegance, but they have no rhythm, according to new research. Each of an octopus's eight arms is soft, flexible and muscular, and acts as if it has an infinite number of joints, said the study's lead a... |
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Rare sperm whale caught on tape
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The Gulf exploration crew that made headlines in 2014 for spotting ghost sharks, dumbo octopuses, vampire squids from hell, a sunken Nazi war boat and other oddities has made its first big discovery of a new season at sea.
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Arabian Sea Humpback Whale Isolated for 70,000 Years
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The Arabian Sea humpback whale may be the most isolated humpback population on the planet, keeping its home in the same place for tens of thousands of years. That's the conclusion reached in a new study of the marine mammal conduc... |
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Rescued Juvenile Sea Turtle Finds New Home
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For the first time, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, welcomed a rescued and rehabilitated sea turtle to its collection of marine life. The juvenile Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta), weigh... |
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Japan Cuts Antarctic Whale Quota
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Japan said on Tuesday it has cut its Antarctic whale-catch quota by two-thirds in a move it hopes will convince international opponents it is conducting genuine scientific research on expeditions in the region.
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French Officials Rush to Defuse Unexploded Dead Whale
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A beach in France has a very large problem on its hands: a dead whale that could explode at any minute. The 15-ton whale, which washed ashore in early November at Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer, near Montpellier, is bloated with gases fo... |
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Oceana finds rich biodiversity on expedition to Canary Islands
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Oceana expedition finds loads of life round Canary Islands,down to 1000m and lobbies for a marine park. Using ROVs (remotely operated underwater vehicles) down to 1000 m as well as scuba divers to shallow depths, they documented l... |
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Around the Pier
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Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, marine biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has always had a dream of catching science up to the speed of communication.
“Nowadays, how fast is communication happening? In... |
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Tiny Sea Monkeys Create Giant Ocean Currents
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Every evening, sunset signals the start of dinner for billions of wiggling sea monkeys living in the ocean. As these sea monkeys — which are not actually monkeys but a type of shrimp — swarm to the surface in one large, culmin... |
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Global Warming Changes the Way Sharks Swim
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Sharks exposed to ocean water acidified by too much carbon dioxide alter their behavior, swimming in longer spurts than sharks in typical ocean water, particularly during their nighttime wanderings.
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770-Pound Colossal Squid a 'Perfect' Specimen
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Scientists said Tuesday a female colossal squid weighing an estimated 350 kilograms (770 lbs) and thought to be only the second intact specimen ever found was carrying eggs when discovered in the Antarctic.
The squid had been k... |
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Wild Chinese Sturgeon on the Brink of Extinction
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The wild Chinese sturgeon is at risk of extinction, state media reported, after none of the rare fish were detected reproducing naturally in the polluted and crowded Yangtze river last year.
One of the world's oldest living spe... |
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