Spotlight: The Miraculous Corals We Could Lose to the Climate Emergency

Coral reefs are among the miracles in our planet's remarkable ocean. They're symbiotic communities of living organisms, a true marvel of biological processes. But their survival is severely threatened by climate change. Here's what we're losing, from whip corals to fan corals to stony corals to lophelia corals to coral species that haven't even been …

Dawn on Our Remarkable Ocean Planet

We live on a remarkable ocean planet. Notice it. Treasure it. Do something every

Spotlight: The Ocean Crisis & One Thing YOU Can Do

As climate change heats up our planet's remarkable ocean and the teeming life in its waters is incredibly stressed and dies off, we must witness what we're losing. There are entire universes of life below the blue-gray surface that we see when we look out at our ocean. They are dying rapidly. Our oceans are …

Spotlight: Starfish Tracks in the Nitinat Canyon

Image by Christopher Mah, from NOAA's Okeanos research vessel in the Nitinat Canyon, Pacific Ocean Zoom in on the photo and realize that all those tiny holes and dents on the right side of the starfish are actually starfish footprints! Or podia prints, to be biologically precise.While NOAA's ocean exploration vessel Okeanos was recently plying …

Spotlight: ‘Tis the Season … for Firefly Squid

Spring in the northern hemisphere brings an ocean marvel of bioluminescence to the shores of Japan ... masses of hotaru-ika, glowing Firefly squid! Toyama Bay, Japan Firefly squid {Watasenia scintillans}, also called Sparkling Enope Squid, are deep sea cephalopods that sometimes come to the ocean's surface to catch prey at night. And in a dazzling …

Spotlight: Ocean Exploration Day

"A day to celebrate the wonder of & need for deep-sea research and exploration. To manage, sustainably use, and protect our ocean, we must understand it. Exploration is the first step to unlocking our ocean’s full potential. Onward and downward!" ~NOAA Ocean Exploration Rarely seen Halitrephes Jellyfish, filmed by E/V Nautilus' explorers 4,000 feet down …

Spotlight: World Jellyfish Day

This species of jelly was seen throughout the dive and during the 500 meter water column transect of Dive 15 for the Windows to the Deep 2018 expedition, NOAA Ocean Exploration O Jelly FishDancing in the nightTheir tentacles long and sheer…… Beauty in the deep ~by Molly Cooper This beautiful, big medusa, seen during Dive 15 of …

Spotlight: Marie Tharp, Pioneer of Ocean Floor Mapping

The World Ocean Floor map, created by Marie Tharp and Bruce C. Heezen, took years of data collection and synthesis -- and Tharp's tenacious march forward despite the barriers women faced in science during her lifetime. Image: World Ocean Floor Panorama, Bruce C. Heezen and Marie Tharp, 1977. Copyright by Marie Tharp 1977/2003. Reproduced by …

Spotlight: Deep-Sea Coral Close-up From NOAA Ocean Exploration

NOAA's vessel Okeanos and its crew of scientists, researchers and mariners have been exploring seamounts in the Atlantic Ocean this month as part of the 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones: New England and Corner Rise Seamounts expedition. Thanks to fantastic livestreaming technology, we can watch what they're seeing in real-time as their ROV plies the …

Pandemic Escape: Chill With The Krill

Would you like to have the sounds and creatures of the ocean in your house? Now you can fill your home with a virtual ocean aquarium with Krill Waves Radio! Thanks to The Monterey Bay Aquarium, any landlubber can tune in to the ocean through these soothing meditation-like videos, which show us ocean animals such …