A robotic ocean float is now drifting through the waters south of St. Thomas, collecting the first biogeochemical water column data ever recorded in U.S. Virgin Islands offshore waters. The deployment ...

The free-floating Argo "robot oceanographers," a successful observation program that began in 2000 and is part of the global observing system to monitor Earth's oceans, reached two milestones: ...

Infographic: The float cycle of a BGC-Argo float. Credit: Thomas Haessig Scientists have found a new way to detect subtle chemical signatures in seawater, revealing previously invisible details about ...

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A: Yes, a motor is needed to make Argo floats travel up and down in the ocean, but not in the way you’d think. Here’s how it all works: Thousands of years ago, a Greek mathematician named Archimedes ...

April 10 (UPI) --The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using $2.7 million in federal funding to deploy a new data-gathering device that will improve measurements of ocean temperatures ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Scientists from around the world are meeting at the CSIRO in Hobart to talk about new ways they can use ...