Bonnie Monteleone spearheads annual sampling of the North Atlantic with BIOS and sailed from Brazil to South Africa with 5 Gyres Institute to collect 110 surface samples of plastic debris.
BIOS particpates in Youth Maker Showcase at Cedarbridge Academy.
Rockland Scientific and the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences announced a specialized training program for Rockland turbulence measurement systems that are integrated with ocean gliders.
Fielding Norton, the new group chief enterprise risk officer at XL Catlin, has an extensive background in Earth and planetary science, and that has proven useful in his insurance industry career. Mr Norton joined the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences in 1995 as it set up the Risk Prediction Initiative, a science and business partnership.
A new paper tests how increasing ocean acidity affects coral growth in the natural environment, where a multitude of additional factors such as light, temperature, and nutrients are important.