Wildfires can have catastrophic environmental and socioeconomic impacts on land, such as the loss of habitats and biodiversity, air pollution and public health. However, few studies report on the fires’ impact on ocean ecosystems. In a…
When oceanographer Bess Ward was granted research time aboard the R/V Sally Ride during the middle of the spring semester, she had to figure out how to teach GEO 428, “Biological Oceanography,” from the Pacific Ocean. She created a teaching schedule that used student presentations, a series of guest lecturers, and her first teaching assistant…
The ETSP2013 Cruise is a research expedition to the Eastern Tropical North Pacific aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer ice-capable research ship that is occurring from June 23 – July 28, 2013.