- What did scientists believe about the ocean floor before Ewing and Heezen's mapping work?
Oceanography and Marine Science
The study of the ocean and marine life.
- Why was the U.S. Navy funding an expedition that ended up locating the Titanic?
- What objects did the ROV Argo's images reveal scattered across the ocean floor around the wreck?
- Why is monitoring wild whale health so logistically difficult?
- Why do submarines make such favorable habitats for cockroaches?
- What special constraints did the Navy face in exterminating roaches inside a sealed submarine?
- What role does ocean mixing play in climate and nutrient distribution?
- How did Bieito Fernández Castro's team measure the contribution of spawning anchovies to ocean turbulence?
- Why had fish-generated turbulence been left out of ocean circulation models before this study?