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Map of the largest Tectonic plates by WikkiCommons

Warm Liquid Spewing from Oregon Seafloor Comes from Cascadia Fault, Could Offer Clues to Earthquake Hazards

Science

5/17/2023 - By ecomagazine.com The field of plate tectonics is not that old, and scientists continue to learn the details of earthquake-producing geologic faults. The Cascadia Subduction Zone — the eerily quiet offshore fault that threatens to unleash a magnitude-9 earthquake in the Pacific Northwest — still holds many mysteries. A study… SEE MORE

Earthquake

Summer in the Greenland coast circa the year 1000 by Carl Rasmussen (1875) by WikiCommons.

Did rising seas drive Vikings out of Greenland?

Maritime History

5/16/2023 - By news.harvard.edu. Vikings occupied Greenland from about 985 to 1450 A.D., farming and building communities before they abruptly abandoned their settlements. Why they disappeared has long been a puzzle, but a new paper from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences determines that one factor — rising sea level — likely played… SEE MORE

A piece of plastic debris that’s been colonized by both costal barnacles (pink and striped) and a gooseneck barnacle from the open ocean. (Linsey Haram/SERC Marine Invasions Lab)

This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts

5/15/2023 - By Nell Greenfieldboyce. Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating in the middle of the open ocean have found some unexpected inhabitants: dozens of marine species that usually stick close to the coast. Among the plastic debris, the researchers found all kinds of nonnative species, from anemones to… SEE MORE

Beach Time, Learning Time

5/14/2023 - By Jennifer Brett. Having a beach day? Why not add some marine science to it? With these four fun games and activities, kids can learn about the shoreline habitats, beach ecology and the animals that call the coast home – and they probably won’t even realize it’s “educational.” Win-win! All… SEE MORE

Beaches

Maxim Massalitin, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Shorting the Circuit

Boating

5/13/2023 - By tradeonlytoday.com The idea of zero emissions that comes with electric vehicles and boats has an almost romantic allure. If we all just parked our internal-combustion cars, trucks and boats, we would be saving the environment and all of mankind. Or would we? “You can’t automatically assume that electrification is… SEE MORE

NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research & Technology Program-Pelagic Research Services., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The slow death and uncertain future of California’s swordfish fishery

Fishing

5/12/2023 - By nationalfisherman.com After decades of public scrutiny, legal battles, and many regulatory changes that constricted the fishery, large-mesh drift gillnets for swordfish in California will be phased out by 2027. Deep-set buoy gear, now being employed under federal exempted fishing permits, is set to become the primary method to harvest… SEE MORE

Swordfish

Grubio--1, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

10 Seaweed Blobs That Will Blow Your Mind

Ocean Awareness

5/11/2023 - By atlasobscura.com Batten down the hatches. Stay out of the water, and beware, because it’s coming. It isn’t a shark or a sea monster. No, this marine menace is…seaweed. More specifically, it’s a massive blob of the stuff twice the width of the continental United States. And that 5,000-mile-wide gunk raft… SEE MORE

seaweed

kees torn, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

California, LA and Japan Sign Agreements for Green Shipping Initiative

Ocean Awareness

5/10/2023 - By maritime-executive.com Representatives from the state of California and the government of Japan signed agreements to collaborate on clean ports and shipping including establishing green shipping corridors during a trade mission to Japan. The initiative was followed with a second agreement between the ports of Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Yokohama… SEE MORE

Commercial Shipping

By Meihe Chen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68352285

When Cities Meet The Water: America’s Top Urban Paddling Destinations

Boating

5/9/2023 - By paddling.com. For most paddling lovers, a dream home would involve a backyard looking over a beautiful body of water with a nice private dock for launching a kayak, canoe, or SUP board. Unfortunately, this is not a feasible reality for most people, paddling lovers or not. In fact, many… SEE MORE

Kayaking

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Scientists Want to Dump Iron Nanoparticles into the Oceans to save the Planet

5/9/2023 - By bigthink.com Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Reducing carbon emissions may not be enough to reverse the worst effects of climate change. Capturing and burying carbon dioxide may be necessary. One idea is to "fertilize" the ocean with iron nanoparticles,… SEE MORE