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Outside
May 2006
Anthony Cerretani |
Upside Down with Wolfgang Petersen An interview with cinema's saltiest director about the power of the ocean, the fishy taste of fear, and the surprisingly strong breaststroke of Richard Dreyfuss.   |
Popular Mechanics
April 2010 |
How a Hurricane Wavemaker Works (With Video!) To engineer better buildings, researchers at Oregon State University's Wave Research Laboratory bust walls with waves generated by this artificial tsunami machine. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Nicholas Makris |
New Sonar Technology Reveals City-size Schools of Fish Low-frequency sound waves improve ocean sensing. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Megan Sever |
Students Sink Into the Edmund Fitzgerald The Edmund Fitzgerald famously sank in bad weather on Nov. 10, 1975. No one knows exactly what sank her, but new model simulations -- being used in a weather and climate class to draw students' interest -- are showing more precisely what conditions the ship may have encountered. |
Science News
January 31, 2009 |
Science Past For January 31, 1959 By listening to the sea's voice, Russian scientists say they may be able to detect approaching storms. |
Geotimes
April 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Ocean Waves Drive Earth's Hum High-energy near-shore waves are the main source of energy for the constant seismic background noise known as Earth's "hum." |
Scientific American
September 2008
Lucas Laursen |
Seismic "Noise"--Oil Prospecting Data Could Decipher Ocean Mixing A ring of warm, salty water in the Atlantic was recently imaged with seismic survey data taken 15 years ago |
Scientific American
August 2009
Daniel C. Schlenoff |
50 Years Ago: Making and Forecasting Ocean Waves Forecasting ocean waves... Approach of Halley's Comet... Proto television... Louis Bleriot's flight... Aboriginal gold in Central America... |
Science News
March 11, 2000 |
Science Safari: Making Waves Office of Naval Research's oceanography Web site |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
David Mattison |
Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources (Part 2) A look at three areas of international cooperation in ocean science research: the physical and chemical ocean, meteorology, and marine life. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Erico Guizzo |
Winner: Solving the Oil Equation A team of geophysicists and computer scientists closes in on the ultimate seismic-imaging code for finding oil. |
Outside
June 2009
Joe Mozingo |
Slab Waves Slab waves bring on the next frontier of surfing. |
Popular Mechanics
October 23, 2009
Tyghe Trimble |
Wave Power Desalination Plant Coming Soon to Texas With seawater filtered with energy from wave power filling corn-based plastic bottles, I have as close as you can get to environmentally friendly bottled water. |
National Defense
June 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Shipbuilders Should Worry About Second-Hand Ship Supply, Study Says As more nations continue to downsize their navies, experts predict that surplus ships will inundate the world market, likely at the expense of new ship construction. |
Wired
May 2004
Carl Hoffman |
Endless Summer (on Demand) Kerry Black is bringing world-class waves to the malls of America. Grab your board - surf's up 6 a.m. to midnight, 365 days a year. |
Wired
February 2005
Sir Arthur C. Clarke |
Letter from Sri Lanka The author talks about the tsunami's aftermath and the roles of science fiction and technology in predicting future disasters. |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2009
Christopher Barker |
Rogue Wave Swamps Dry Bulk Shippers Now that a series of dramatic developments have bashed the dry bulk shippers like a rogue wave, and fourth-quarter results are beginning to emerge, let's step back and take a comprehensive look at the sector. |
Wired
December 2004
Sylvia A. Earle |
The Wild Blue Under The more we understand about life in extreme environments, the greater chance we'll know where to look in space. |
Science News
September 6, 2003 |
TimeLine: September 2, 1933 Urn patterns existed long before urns were made... Ultra-short radio waves sent around curvature of earth... Dead seas hoard minute amounts of "heavy" water |
Geotimes
February 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Triggering Tsunamis A controversy over whether an earthquake or an underwater landslide generated the 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami rekindled interest in such events; it also drew geologists into a field that had been dominated by modelers and seismologists. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Paden et al. |
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar |
Geotimes
February 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Tsunami Devastates Asia Geoscientists won't know exactly what happened in the Indian Ocean event until they can get into the field. |
Science News
September 14, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Doing the Wave Now researchers have created a mathematical model that illuminates what it takes to trigger "the wave" in sports stadia, which they describe as concerted motion in an excitable medium. |
Popular Mechanics
October 11, 2006
Alex Hutchinson |
Nuke Watch: How Scientists Sniffed Out N. Korea This timely exclusive looks at nuclear detection technology and finds out just how tough it is to hide a weapons blast. |
Wired
August 2000 |
GEO 600 laser interferometer It will measure gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity but yet to be observed. These waves - space-time ripples caused by the movement of large cosmic masses like black holes and compact binary stars - will help determine distances across the universe. |
Boating
Daniel W. Long |
Heads Coach Learning to pick your way through the rough stuff. |
Technology Research News
November 17, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Nanotubes Tune in Light Carbon nanotubes can act as antennas, but instead of transmitting and receiving radio waves, antennas of their size pick up the nanoscale wavelengths of visible light. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2006
Kieron Murphy |
Q&A: Paul G. Richards, Nuclear Arms Seismologist An interview with the Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University on the science of detecting and measuring nuclear weapons test explosions. |
AskMen.com
Harry Marks |
Top 10: Surfing Beaches Some people hit the beach to relax and bask in the sun, but the real beach lovers are those who engage in a much more energetic activity: surfing. If you are among the growing number of adventurous sportsmen who love to hang 10, you'll be very interested in the following list. |
Salon.com
June 14, 2001
Carina Chocano |
The "abortion boat" steams toward Ireland Women on Waves will provide medical abortions to women in international waters... |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Ritchie S. King |
The Einstein Telescope Planning a bigger, badder gravitational-wave detector |
Outside
March 2005 |
The Surfer's Seaplane Surfers use sea planes to catch big waves. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Riding Out a Financial Tsunami Investing in some stocks will make you feel like a professional surfer. Other stocks will make your worst wipeout seem like a ride in a water park. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2012
David Schneider |
Coffee-Can Radar How to build a synthetic-aperture imaging system with tin cans and AA batteries |
National Defense
October 2015
Ray Mabus |
The Real Numbers Behind Today's Fleet What should Americans conclude when they hear conflicting claims about the U.S. Navy being too large or shrinking too much? |
