This year’s lecture will explore how oceanography has changed in the age of intelligent robots and climate change. The featured lecturer, Dr. Chris Scholin (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute),...

The 25th Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture will explore the topic of equitable science and solutions in the context of our warming world. An increasing number of communities on the frontlines...

The Ocean Studies Board is excited to announce this year's Roger Revelle Lecture, Making Waves and Charting New Paths. To mark the 24th year of this commemorative lecture series, former astronaut and...

This year’s lecture, Bio-inspired Ocean Exploration, will consider how the fluid mechanics of efficient locomotion by jellyfish can be leveraged to develop bioinspired systems with the potential to en...

Join the Ocean Studies Board (OSB) for the 22nd Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture on Wednesday, May 26, at 5:30 pm ET. This year, the virtual Lecture will feature Early Career Ocean Professio...

As early as the 1970s, scientists began to notice that plastic waste was turning up in the ocean thousands of miles from land. Since that time, the problem has grown exponentially. News images of floa...

The deep ocean (below 200 m) covers nearly half the planet but remains a final frontier on earth. It is full of mineral, energy and genetic resources and serves as a living library of biodiversity. Sp...

How many fish should there be in the sea? Many fish stocks have been reduced to a fraction of their former abundance, the result of overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution, and other human impacts...

From the stick charts of the ancient Marshall Islanders to the SONAR of World War II, humankind continues to devise ways to map the ocean. The newest maps, which are global, 3D, and increasingly intel...

Tonight’s lecture, Managing Leviathan: Conservation Challenges for the Great Whales in a Post- Whaling World, will take you on a historical journey of whaling and its decline. How have certain whale p...

In 1800 Count Rumford ascertained the ocean’s meridional overturning circulation from a single profile of ocean temperature constructed with the use of a rope, a wooden bucket, and a rudimentary therm...

Life on Earth arose as singlecelled microorganisms nearly four billion years ago in an ancient ocean. Microorganisms still dominate our planetary environment despite the subsequent evolution of a dive...

Sea ice has emerged as the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Its summer extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 50% over the past decade, and the Arctic Ocean has undergone a regime shift...

The horrific December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed over 230,000 people and displaced 1.7 million across 14 countries, was a wake-up call for nations around the world, stimulating govern...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill brought the world’s attention to the Gulf of Mexico and raised awareness of the region’s chronic loss of wetlands and the massive dead zone caused by excess nutrients f...

A confluence of changes is rapidly transforming and threatening once bountiful and resilient coastal and ocean ecosystems. Through advances in social and natural sciences, new approaches can be develo...

Microbial life in the ocean transformed our home planet’s environment and made possible the evolution of higher life forms, including humans. We have to begin viewing the ocean as a key component of t...

Satellites have fundamentally transformed the way we observe the ocean and its properties. Global measurements of sea-surface temperature, sea level, wind forcing, ocean color, and sea ice cover are o...

Most of the carbon dioxide emissions from burning coal, oil, and gas are ultimately absorbed by the ocean. Carbon dioxide reacts with seawater to form carbonic acid; this acid can dissolve the shells...

The recent devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami, and South Asian earthquake has kept natural disasters at the focus of our attention. The past decades have seen a spectacu...

Are we “rocking the boat” when it comes to climate? Explorations of the Earth's history show that when the climate system has been forced across a threshold, it can abruptly shift to a new climate, mu...

Good science and good policy are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this more evident than in the area of ocean policy. Decisions are made every day with important economic and environmental consequ...

Up until the end of the first millennium anno Domini, humans used the oceans primarily at their margins, lacking the desire or the ability to venture further out to sea. In the second millennium, huma...

The ocean is essential to life on Earth: it is Earth’s largest living space and contains most of its biomass. The ocean moderates climate to keep Earth habitable, recycles our wastes, and provides an...

During the past two decades of ocean research, thousands of fascinating, marine-derived biochemicals have been discovered. Many have the potential for development as new pharmaceuticals to treat disea...

In the 1950s, Roger Revelle established that carbon dioxide was increasing in the atmosphere, due to the burning of fossil fuels. Concerns about the effect of this increase on global climate suggest t...