Nitrogen is essential for all life on Earth. In the global oceans, however, this element is scarce, and nitrogen availability is therefore critical for the growth of marine life. Some bacteria found ...

A study published in Geophysical Research Letters has challenged the conventional understanding of the relationship between ...

A new publication by researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford shows that the ...

Investing in ocean research, infrastructure, and the ocean studies workforce is needed to understand how a changing ocean ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

This cycle is repeated every 10 minutes or so, giving us a remarkable high resolution view into the physical and physiological variations of the plankton and particles in the upper ocean. Having a ...

At sea on the Falkor, the challenges that we face as a part of ocean science are unique. After all, any unanticipated problems must be solved using only the resources on board our two-hundred-foot ...

The surface of the ocean is warming four times faster than it was 40 years ago, scientists have warned. As the Earth absorbs more heat and reflects less back into space, this increase is only set to ...