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May 02, 2023
Map with red extent of sea ice covering part of the Bering Sea and the Arctic region. Images on the right show floating sea ice in the water.

Annual Ecosystems & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (EcoFOCI) Survey in the Bering Sea encounters sea ice (right images) for the... more

In the News

October 17, 2023

On a windy day in October 2013, a small team of engineers and boatbuilders watched the first wind-powered ocean drone disappear over the... more

May 06, 2022

To improve future tropical cyclone forecasts, researchers sent a remotely operated saildrone into the extreme winds and towering waves... more