Ventilation is an important process within the global ocean, where waters sink to deeper layers, are transported by deep currents, and eventually get upwelled back to the surface. This process affects ...

The Gulf of Mexico represents a dynamic and complex marine environment where the interplay of large-scale ocean currents and mesoscale eddies drives significant regional variability. At the heart of ...

Oceanographers have been able to document the movement of ocean waters to indicate things like currents, weather, and more.

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are transforming our knowledge of the Loop Current, the dominant physical ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three months ...