The Ocean Brief
Short ocean stories and insights covering science, policy, innovation, and the ocean community
Blue-Cloud Hackathon: Marine data scientists & researchers wanted to decode the Ocean!
Are you ready to decode the ocean? Blue-Cloud project is looking for marine data scientists & researchers, ICT experts, innovators, students to help solve key ocean challenges.
Advances in genome sequencing could advance aquaculture
What is genome sequencing and what, if anything, does it mean for aquaculture?
Sea Shorts: Wonderful wolffish and their amazing adaptations
They may not be pretty but wolffish they have some amazing abilities - like living in places where water temperatures drop to below freezing!
Save the world with a shipping pallet revolution
Shipping pallets may not be the most exciting of topics, but when it comes to tackling climate change they have a role to play too! Discover how NGO Change The Pallet are hoping to reduce carbon emissions from shipping and transportation of goods with a rather simple solution…
Sea Shorts: How Iceland's Jökulsárlón lagoon is changing the coast
Breiðamerkurjökull glacier and Jökulsárlón lagoon are changing some of Iceland’s beaches.
Lifting the fog... or is that mist?
There’s something beautiful about early morning fog over the ocean. The water is often calm, the air cool and still. But are you sure that’s fog you’re looking at and not mist?
Greening your marine science
When it comes to legally sharing your science, gold open-access isn’t your only option. Welcome to the world of Green Open Access - and for us marine people, MarXiv.
The devastation of a Tsunami
For coastal communities, few things are more frightening than a Tsunami.
Sea Shorts: The Wonder of the Moeraki Boulders
New Zealand’s Moeraki Boulders are a thing of beauty - and of legend and conspiracies.