Spring is Here!

Great article on the "greening" of the Atlantic Ocean each spring.

WHOI - Spring Bloom

Lab Website

Just to make getting to the NOAA Tides and Currents site easier for our lab, I put the link below:

NOAA Tides & Currents - Stations

There is a problem with the tide gauge at Montauk Point.  Use New London, CT, instead of Montauk.

Dredging and Coral

"Panama Canal Miraflores Locks" by Stan Shebs. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panama_Canal_Miraflores_Locks.jpg#/media/File:Panama_Canal_Miraflores_Locks.jpg

I'm finally starting to catch up on my reading.

I just came across this article and video on the National Geographic website.  It talks about the dredging going on in east coast ports so that they can accommodate post-Panamax and new-Panamax vessels.  The Bayonne Bridge in NJ is being raised to accommodate these behemoths.

Anyway...the article and video are about dredging taking place in Florida for the same reasons, and how the dredging is literally smothering vital coral communities.

Nat Geo - Dredging & Coral

Great Article from NASA

Ice in NYC's East River - Triboro Bridge
Image Credit - Greenfield Daily Reporter

Long Island Sound Near Sound Ave.
Southold, NY
Image Credit - southold Times

Here's a link to a fantastic article from NASA's Earth Observatory about all of the ice in the eastern part of the United States.

NASA Earth Observatory

Ice Boating, Anyone?

Ice Boating - Long Island

Great short video from News 12 on this year's ice boating season on Long Island's East End.

News 12 - Ice Boating

Vatican Observatory

I know, this isn't oceanography, but it's well worth watching.  You really can be a devout Catholic, even a priest or religious, and a scientist! The atheist obviously disagrees.  Well, we know he's wrong anyway.

Snow Day

Not a bad snowstorm at all here on Long Island.

Just a note about science fair projects...I posted the revised calendar of due dates in the same folder as all of the other science project materials.  If you're not sure when your project is due, check it out.

Check the awesome imagery from NOAA of the blizzard:
NOAA Visualization Lab

The blizzard is hammering the southeast New England coast with 20-30 foot seas and a storm surge that peaked in some areas last evening at 5 feet! Amazing stuff.

The Battle for Coral Reefs

Kwajalein Atoll
Image Credit - Landsat 7

Here's an article in the current edition of WHOI's (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's) Oceanus Magazine on the delicate balance it takes to "maintain" a healthy coral reef and how that balance may/will be distrubed in a changing ocean.

Oceanus - Reefs

Painting the Sea

Earlier this year we learned about various microscopic inhabitants of the world; diatoms and coccolithophores, for example.

A NASA instrument picked up these wild colors in the Bering Sea in the neighborhood of the Pribiliof Islands.

Earth Observatory - Phytoplankton