MOSS LANDING, CA. MBARI researchers have demonstrated a new long-range autonomous underwater vehicle that can travel rapidly for hundreds of kilometers, "hover" in the water for weeks at a time, and carry a wide variety of instruments. The high-efficiency robot is being used to track patches of algae in Monterey Bay.
MOSS LANDING, CA. An MBARI-lead experiment to monitor harmful algal blooms detected a significant bloom of the toxic algae Pseudo-nitzschia australis with its associated toxin, domoic acid in Monterey Bay. This fortuitous detection occured during an exercise aimed to characterize
and predict the development and movement of phytoplankton blooms in the bay.
San Francisco, California. Leaders of Pacific Island States along with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and a coalition of non-profit, intergovernmental and academic institutions will call for collaborated action on ocean threats across the Pacific on Wednesday September 8th at 8:15am in San Francisco, California (USA).
MONTEREY, CA - The Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) will host a trio of events on climate change on Friday, Aug. 27, at BLUE, a week-long global ocean film festival and conservation summit presented by Make a Difference Media Foundation.
Bluefin tuna return to the same regions of the Gulf of Mexico during spring months to spawn. The bluefin are selecting cool, productive water masses in the slope waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which are predictable and can be observed from satellites. Unfortunately, these findings also give cause for concern in light of the recent Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
MOSS LANDING, CA - MBARI's Division of Marine Operations, under an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), sent a high-tech robotic submersible to the oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The goal is to collect information about the oil plume from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig accident for NOAA.
