Polar News and Notes Oceans

The Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) Network has added a regional center in Alaska. With a team of ocean scientists and educators, COSEE Alaska will stage science fairs, teacher workshops, and hands-on sessions for scientists.
Involved in the center’s work are educators and scientists from the Anchorage School District and state agencies such as […]

If what’s been happening to the ecology of the North Sea had happened in a forest, we’d be shocked, according to researchers writing in the December issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Hidden from view, the ecology has undergone a radical shift in the last half century, with jellyfish and crabs replacing cod […]

Have you ever thought about shipping out to sea? This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association program is accepting applications from K–12 teachers for the 2010 field season. The program provides a unique environment for learning and teaching by sending kindergarten through college teachers to sea aboard NOAA research and survey ships to work under the […]

A team of researchers from Great Britain and Germany, funded by Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council, went to West Spitsbergen, Norway, to study how much methane might be released from Arctic seabeds as the climate warms in the future. To their surprise, they discovered plumes of methane bubbles rising from the seabed now.
The researchers chose […]

The sea anemone Bathyphellia margaritacea found directly below the North Pole now has the distinction of being considered the world’s most northerly species.
The living creature was collected by Russian explorers when they took two submersible vehicles under the pole to plant their country’s flag. That area of the Arctic Ocean has been hidden by a […]