REMINISCENCES | On being thrown overboard in Hawaii’s Kauai channel
The year 1957 was a big one for scientists all over the world. It also almost cost me my life. Nineteen hundred and fifty-seven marked the beginning...
The year 1957 was a big one for scientists all over the world. It also almost cost me my life. Nineteen hundred and fifty-seven marked the beginning...
This all started in 1959 when a twenty-six-year-old who was studying for his PhD in archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania was asked if he would...
A new methanol-fuelled research ship was recently christened by a German scientific institute. Construction is meanwhile underway on a training vessel...
Who is Captain Hook? He plays an important part in this episode and is a very remarkable man. He is Howard W. Pollock, who died in 2011 at age 90, and...
More than US$8.4 million in 2022 Community Project Funding will support NOAA partners in implementing seven habitat conservation projects across the...
Recent research has shown that switching to a new type of fishing gear can drastically reduce bycatch for certain shark species in the Pacific Ocean,...
In 1985, I was scuba diving In Kona, Hawaii with retired US Navy Commander Jerry Saber and his brother Rick Saber, a United Airlines pilot, when we...
My hypothesis (theory) on how sperm whales locate giant squid is that, in addition to using their biosonar, sperm whales locate giant squid by listening...
A white dot. That’s what it was. First very faint, then getting bigger and bigger. I was astonished at what it turned out to be – the white nose of...
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