London’s Mail Online today features a fascinating report from the researchers aboard the NOAA Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico. What initially was thought to be a shipwreck site on the ocean floor turned out to be an asphalt volcano, then a second was discovered. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics researcher Jamie Austin is among those… Continue Reading The “Flowers” at the Bottom of the Sea
Where Time Stands Still
The research scientists aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship Okeanos Explorer have, with an undersea robot, revealed a ship’s chronometer at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The timepiece is believed to be a relic from a shipwreck about 200 years ago. You can read more about the discovery here. University of… Continue Reading Where Time Stands Still
Back From Totten
Even when uncontrollable circumstances keep an expedition from reaching its intended landmark, it does not mean the participants come away empty-handed. Such was the case for those involved in the Totten Expedition, a collaborative scientific research voyage into East Antarctica for about six weeks in February and March. Sean Gulick, an associate professor at the… Continue Reading Back From Totten