Thursday, April 16, 2015

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

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.

Friday, March 27, 2015

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

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Great Article from NASA

Ice in NYC's East River - Triboro Bridge
Image Credit - Greenfield Daily Reporter
The Long Island Sound shoreline near Soundview Avenue in Southold as it appeared about 11 a.m. on Feb. 16. Just a day before freezing over, large swells as high as 10 feet could be seen in the Sound from the Southold Town beach. (Credit: John-Paul Stanisic)
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

Monday, March 2, 2015

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

Sunday, February 8, 2015

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.


Tuesday, January 27, 2015

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.

Monday, January 19, 2015

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

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

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