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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Environment, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Science Ditty Friday, Scientainment, Video on 02 3rd, 2012 | No Comments

SDF: Jackson Browne’s Ode to the Ocean

Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song? Send it to ditty@realscience.us. When legendary marine biologist Sylvia Earle started exploring...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 01 18th, 2012 | No Comments

Debris from Japanese Tsunami Hits U.S.

Beaches along the coasts of Washington and Oregon are treasure troves of flotsam for avid beachcombers. But one scientist says that what’s on its way to the west coast is unprecedented and those areas are totally unprepared. Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer is a self-proclaimed expert on manmade...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Atmospheric science, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Arctic Region Warms into New Climate State

In 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began monitoring the Arctic region, creating an annual report card to mark rapid change occurring there. Five years in and the news isn’t good. The 2011 Arctic Report Card shows that the entire region is changing dramatically. Ice, both...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 09 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Surfers Use Science to Protect the Ocean

Surfers are a group of ocean super users. They spend a great deal of time in the water and on top of the waves. They notice slight variations. And they depend on a clean, safe environment to catch a wave and hang ten. As a result they are first responders when it comes to anything encroaching on their...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Consumer Safety, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Tiny Shark Packs Big Bite

Few people have ever heard of the cookiecutter shark. They are prevalent in the deep, tropical ocean but they are not very large predators. In fact, the fish measures just a couple of feet long. But don’t be fooled by its size. This is a saw-toothed fish that bites dolphins, whales, nuclear submarine...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Plants, Video on 06 27th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Northwest Passage Opens for Whales, Plankton Not Just People

This video from May 2010 tells the tale of a gray whale lost, half a world away from home. Biologists immediately thought it was a hoax but after studying the 43-foot whale more closely they discovered that it must have gotten off it’s north-south Pacific Ocean migration track thanks to an ice-free...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Climate Change, Discoveries, Geology, Oceanography, Video on 06 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Sea Level Rise Small, Steady and Unprecedented

For years scientists and politicians have been saying the sea is rising. And it is. But because the amount of sea level rise each year is measured in millimeters for many it seems insignificant and for some it seems downright laughable. But new research this week confirms that sea levels have risen...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Ocean under Siege

For decades fishermen have been saying there’s no future in fishing. Environmentalists have been warning about overfishing and pollution harming the ocean’s delicate ecosystem. But so far the ocean has been able to absorb everything humans have thrown at it. The summary of a new international...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 04 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Fish Ear Bones Hear Chemical Secrets of Water

Fish ear bones are just like tree rings. The otolith bone inside a fish’s ear records the creature’s growth. Micro slices of sliver-sized ear bones can give scientists clues to the chemistry of the water in which fish swim. They can measure carbon dioxide levels and one year after the Deepwater...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Greenovation, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 04 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment

BP Oil Spill: The Gulf of Mexico One Year Later

One year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill scientists believe the health of the Gulf of Mexico is back to where it was before the massive environmental disaster. In a recent survey, most scientists agreed that the health of the Gulf is about 68 out of 100. That is almost in line with the pre-spill...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Consumer Safety, Environment, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Video on 04 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Radioactive Water Poses No Seafood Risk to People

Workers in Japan have started dumping more than three million gallons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo Electric officials spent about two days dumping out all that water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in northeastern Japan, following the devastating March 11 earthquake....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Engineering, Marine Science, Oceanography, Podcast, SciLebs, Video on 04 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Billionaire Branson Heads for Murky Depths

Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson announced plans to travel to the deepest parts of the world’s oceans in a single-person submarine this week. Sir Richard will pilot the one-manned Virgin Oceanic sub as he dives the Puerto Rico trench, located just off the coast of Puerto Rico, sometime in...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate, Climate Change, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Space, Video on 03 30th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Mission to Study Polar Climate Change

The earth’s climate is getting a checkup thanks to NASA’s Operation Ice Bridge. It’s a six year mission to study the earth’s polar region from on board an airplane. NASA scientist Tom Wagner explains the mission from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. While...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Marine Science, Oceanography, Plants, Video on 02 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Sea Urchins Help Rescue Hawaiian Reef

A fast-growing seaweed-like algae is smothering Hawaiian reefs, especially in Kaneohe Bay, near Honolulu. In an effort to slow the spread of the invasive plant, scientists have been raising baby sea urchins in a hatchery, getting them ready to battle the algae. Raising urchins in captivity is very difficult...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video, Weird Weather on 02 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Sailors Notice Sea Change in the Ocean

Experienced sailors and seasoned meteorologists have the same nagging feeling — that something drastic is changing oceans around the world. A Canadian sailing in a solo around-the-world race says he is disturbed by the horrendous conditions he has encountered in the southern oceans, including...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate, Climate Change, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video, Weird Weather on 02 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

La Nina Powers Big Storms

Cyclone Yasi barreled ashore on the Northeast edge of Queensland, Australia this week, where 190 mile-per-hour winds damaged towns guarding the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. The category 5 cyclone — akin to a hurricane in the U.S. and a typhoon in Asia — was the biggest Australia has...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Discoveries, Diseases, Earthquake, Environment, Genomics, Geology, Health and Medicine, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 12 31st, 2010 | No Comments

2010 Science Roundup

On the last day of 2010, the final day of the last year in the first decade of the 21st Century, we bid farewell to another year. Let’s take a look back over the last 12 months through the eyes of science. First, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku looks back over the natural disasters that rocked the world...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Climate Change, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 12 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Marine Life Moves Deeper to Escape Threats

New findings spark hope that endangered species are more abundant than previously thought. Until recently scientists have been limited in their exploration of the ocean by depths SCUBA divers can safely travel. And deep water submersible vehicles tend to focus on the deep ocean, below 500 feet. So...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Discoveries, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 08 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists Plan 3-D Map of Titanic

A team of scientists is on a mission to provide 3D maps and models of the wreckage of the Titanic before it disappears. The nearly 100 year old shipwreck is falling apart. To preserve the famous ship as it is the Waitt Institute is using side-sensing autonomous underwater vehicles to map the Titanic....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, Video on 08 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Scientists Say Toxic BP Oil Mix Sits on Gulf Floor and Floats Below the Surface

After one of their research vessels returned from the Gulf, University of South Florida scientists say they found significant amounts of toxic oil sitting on the Gulf floor – and it is killing sea life. Small oil droplets speckle the Gulf floor and are hard to detect. Best seen under ultraviolet...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate, Climate Change, Oceanography, Video on 08 12th, 2010 | No Comments

10 Indicators Point to Warming World

A joint report put out by NOAA and the UK Met Office have looked at the atmospheric and ocean research of 300 scientists around the world and concludes global warming is a fact. Scientists from 48 countries say 10 indicators that are related to surface temperatures all tell the same story: Global warming...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Video on 07 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Marine Biologists Find New Species

Marine biologists believe they have discovered several new species of underwater creatures, including sponges, corals and sea stars

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Scientists Simulate BP Oil Spill Day 360

Simulation of BP Oil Spill, Day 360, courtesy of University of Hawaii University of Hawaii scientists Researchers Axel Timmermann and Fabian Schloesser have been trying to answer a question that few will even dare to ask. They want to how not if but when the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will...

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