When Lisa Blair completed her solo, nonstop, and unassisted sail around Antarctica in 2022, not only did she become the fastest person ever to do so, but she also collected a wealth of data about the ocean, microplastics, the weather, and the seabed.

Pauline Weatherall discusses the changes in seabed mapping they’ve seen over their career.

By enhancing international collaboration and coordination and providing advice and recommendations to the G7, the G7 Future of the Seas and Oceans Initiative is supporting actions to strengthen and sustain ocean observations for a more sustainable ocean future.

Dr Philomène Verlaan is an oceanographer researching deep sea mineral formation and a lawyer specialising in law of the sea. She shares some of her experiences on board research vessels.

By harnessing the power of data and cutting-edge technology, the European Digital Twin of the Ocean aims to revolutionise ocean research, support policy and other stakeholders, and make ocean knowledge more open and impactful than ever before.

Dr Rochelle Wigley discusses training the next generation of seabed mappers

The JOIDES Resolution has been a stalwart in the earth and ocean science community since 1984. Her retirement is now set for 2024, four years earlier than initially expected.

When the side-scan sonar first picked up unexpected mound features in the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound, which runs along the west coast of Canada, nobody expected them to be ancient yet living glass sponge reefs, especially since reef-building glass sponges were thought to have gone extinct during the Cretaceous period.

New research finds that a warming climate could flip globally abundant microbial communities from carbon sinks to carbon emitters, potentially triggering climate change tipping points.