Alaska will soon have a buoy network in place feeding real time ocean acidity data to scientists and the public alike though a new data portal, according to a Alaska Public Radio.

The first-ever conference on analyzing the effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill gathered more than 1,000 scientists, mariners and others who aided response efforts this week to discuss recovery, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Two recent federal reports on the Chesapeake Bay document poor water quality thanks to contaminated sediment with little sign of recent improvement, according to Chesapeake Bay News.

Oceanographers at the University of Delaware have deployed a research float in the Southern Ocean near the Drake Passage, according to a release.

A team from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) is traveling the Antarctic for a six-week study looking at the connection between climate change and variations in the zooplankton population.

A University of California Davis study has found that those dumping pet fish into waterways may be contributing to the spread of invasive species downstream, according to a release.

A blog dedicated to ocean acidification pools scientific research to create a resource for documented studies on decreasing pH levels in the world’s oceans. The Ocean Acidification blog, started in 2006 and sponsored by the European Project on Ocean Acidification...

A report from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has made recommendations on bettering the commonwealth’s responses to high tides, storm surges, intense rain storms and other effects of nor’easters, according to a release.

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution successfully tested new autonomous underwater vehicles designed to listen for whales in the open ocean, according to a WHOI press release.

Researchers at Auburn University have gotten the go-ahead from the town of Orange Beach, Ala., to see if there are residual effects from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the town’s water, according to Gulf Coast News...