Mesoplankton refers to plankton with a body size between 200–20,000 µm. Since mesoplankton are the key components of coastal ecosystems, their abundance and composition can promptly reflect ...

Duluth, Minn. — For over 11 years Jay Austin and his research team at the University of Minnesota Duluth have carefully tended to a crop of bright-yellow meteorological buoys floating on Lake Superior ...

ABSTRACT The surface wind and stress responses to sea surface temperature (SST) are examined using collocated moored buoy and satellite observations in the Gulf Stream and the eastern equatorial ...

DIRECT observations of continuous movements of water masses in the open sea do not appear to have been carried out before. We have, for this purpose, for some years been using free drifting ...

A researcher at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Large Lakes Observatory is involved in perhaps the most extensive effort ever to understand the inner workings of Lake Superior. $1 million ...

Mar. 18—The system of ocean buoys that helps warn Hawaii and the rest of the nation about tsunamis is back working after being knocked out of commission for nearly a week. "The buoy data has been ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- Three research buoys have been placed in Lake Michigan for the first full season of data collection. The buoys will also provide a video feed of the lake's ...

Tuesday's massive earthquake beneath the Gulf of Alaska, and much of coastal Alaska's tense wait for a tsunami, created more than one internet sensation. Larry, the mellow disaster-scare narrator in ...

Whales cruising through the ocean sometimes get snagged in fishing gear that is either in use, or left behind as old, derelict ghost gear. In recent years, increasing whale entanglements off of the ...

COOS BAY — Crabbers are reminded that, effective Jan. 1, all surface buoys used with recreational crab pots or rings must be marked to identify the owner of the gear. According to a press release from ...