Internal Waves Beneath The Sea

Seismologist W. Steven Holbrook and oceanographer Raymond Schmitt might be forgiven for talking past each other aboard a research cruise. Oceanographers normally drop probes overboard, measuring the ocean’s temperature, chemistry and motion. To seismologists, however, …

Seismic “Noise”–Oil Prospecting Data Could Decipher Ocean Mixing

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Three decades ago researchers discovered what are essentially …

Watery Echoes Give Clues to the Past and Future of the Seas

A handful of oceanographers and geophysicists are recording seismic whispers of the ocean’s structure